Whether it's destiny or fate or whatever, I don't think I could do a French Laundry anywhere else.

Cooking is not about convenience and it's not about shortcuts. Our hunger for the twenty-minute gourmet meal, for one-pot ease and prewashed, precut ingredients has severed our lifeline to the satisfactions of cooking. Take your time. Take a long time. Move slowly and deliberately and with great attention.

Any job worth doing is worth doing well. But to be able to do that, you have to do it over and over again.

They know what my standards are. They know what I need and how to get it to me, and they know how to communicate with me if for some reason they can't get it.

Whether it's destiny or fate or whatever, I don't think I could do a French Laundry anywhere else.

For me, thats one of the important things about cooking. What was good enough yesterday may not be good enough today.

I believe Fernand Point is one of the last true gourmands of the 20th century. His ruminations are extraordinary and thought-provoking. He has been an inspiration for legions of chefs.