Wolfgang Puck Quotes

A chef is a mixture maybe of artistry and craft. You have to learn the craft really to get there.
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Learn, Chef, Maybe

A good chef has to be a manager, a businessman and a great cook. To marry all three together is sometimes difficult.
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Good, Great, Together

A lot of restaurants serve good food, but they don't have very good service.
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Good, Food, Service

Everybody has to put purees underneath everything now. It's like people think we need the steak, and then we need some baby food with it.
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Food, Put, Everybody

For me, cooking is an expression of the land where you are and the culture of that place.
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Place, Culture, Cooking

I believe that London is the most exciting food city in Europe.
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Food, Exciting, City

I grew up so poor in Austria that we never took a vacation with my family.
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Family, Poor, Vacation

I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes.
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Work, Learned, Restaurant

I left school when I was 14 to work in kitchens.
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Work, School, Left

I like the Japanese knives, I like French knives. Whatever's sharp.
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Whatever, Japanese, Sharp

I like to be firm. But it is easier to be nice than to be nasty.
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Nice, Nasty, Firm

I really love Paris. It's my favorite city.
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Love, City, Favorite

I tell everybody the same thing: You have to make every dish so when you taste it, you should remember it when you go home.
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Home, Remember, Same

I think it's really important to keep on staying motivated.
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Important, Keep, Motivated

I think the time of the formal dinners is over.
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Time, Formal, Dinners

Italian food is all about ingredients and it's not fussy and it's not fancy.
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Food, Fancy, Italian

New Yorkers think they have everything, all the best art and music. But really L.A. is a better place.
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Music, Best, Art

Now everybody thinks that once you do Top Chef, then 13 weeks later you're a chef. Nobody wants to learn to cook anymore.
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Learn, Once, Everybody

One thing I always say is being a great chef today is not enough - you have to be a great businessman.
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Great, Today, Enough

Television in the '80s was very limited. There was no Food Network.
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Food, Television, Network

The most important thing for me is to really buy the best ingredient.
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Best, Important, Buy

There's a lot of processed food in America and I know that can make some tourists who're used to fresh food feel sick.
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Food, America, Sick

What I don't like is breakfast in the morning. I have a double-espresso cappuccino, but no food.
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Morning, Food, Breakfast

When I was 27, if I didn't put 15 things in one dish I wasn't happy.
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Happy, Put, Dish

When I'm in Los Angeles, my wife and I go to the farmers' market with the kids every Sunday.
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Wife, Sunday, Kids

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Biography

Nationality: Austrian

Type: Chef

Born: July 8, 1949

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