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Charlie Trotter
American Celebrity
Born: Sep 8, 1959
Died: Nov 5, 2013
Always Food Life Me People You
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Excellence is about fighting and pursuing something diligently, with a strict and determined approach to doing it right. It's okay if there are flaws in the process - it makes it more interesting. Charlie Trotter
Strict Fighting Approach Diligently Okay About Determined Something More Excellence Pursuing Makes Doing Process Interesting Flaws Right
A jazz musician can improvise based on his knowledge of music. He understands how things go together. For a chef, once you have that basis, that's when cuisine is truly exciting. Charlie Trotter
Music Knowledge You Together Improvise Jazz Once Musician He Exciting Chef Understands How Cuisine Go His Truly Jazz Musician Based Things Basis
I timed my previous wife's pregnancy to the moment to have my son born on Bob Dylan's 50th birthday. There is no bigger Bob Dylan fan than me. You don't just time the day and impregnate your wife to get your kid to be born on Bob Dylan's 50th birthday. Charlie Trotter
Time Day Birthday Me You Son Wife Kid Born Previous Than Get Just Fan Bigger Dylan Bob Bob Dylan Pregnancy Your Moment
Cooking is exactly like making music. Charlie Trotter
Music Cooking Exactly Like Making
I couldn't really relate to the fraternity or party scene, to the people out in the mall every day protesting one thing or another. I felt like there was no one I could relate to. Charlie Trotter
Day Every Day People Party Every Relate Out Fraternity One Thing Scene Could No-One Like Another Felt Protesting Mall Really Thing
What I was reading was already part of my psyche, but finally someone else was saying it's okay to walk alone. Charlie Trotter
Alone Saying Walk Reading Else Finally Okay Someone Part Psyche
I've always liked root vegetables because most of them have a natural sweetness. They have a high fructose content, especially when you cook them and caramelize them in a saute pan. Or you can take a turnip and cook it slowly in the oven until it's browned, and it takes on a kind of sweetness. These vegetables are pretty easy to like. Charlie Trotter
You Natural Vegetables Kind High Easy Pretty Slowly Take Takes Oven Like Liked Most Until Content Because Always Them Root Cook Sweetness Pan
One must know combinations, one must have a true knowledge of food to be in the moment. Charlie Trotter
Food Knowledge Must True Combinations Know True Knowledge Moment
A quarter century of running a restaurant - that's a long time to do one thing. Charlie Trotter
Time Long Long Time One Thing Running Restaurant Quarter Quarter Century Century Thing
I never considered Miles Davis a perfectionist; I always considered him as an excellence-ist, where deviation is actually kind of cool. Charlie Trotter
Considered Kind Davis Never Perfectionist Deviation Him Always Where Miles Miles Davis Cool Actually
My parents couldn't be looser. It was the ultimate laissez faire upbringing. Charlie Trotter
Parents Looser Ultimate Upbringing
I worked in 40 restaurants over a five-year period. Charlie Trotter
Restaurants Over Period Five-Year Worked
If you ever want to get anywhere in life, you're going to have to push it, and somebody's going to push you to get there. End of story. Charlie Trotter
Life You Somebody Push End Get Going Want Story Anywhere Ever
I have a certain point of view, a certain way to plate food, certain ingredients that I like to use. Charlie Trotter
Food Way Point Point Of View Like Ingredients Certain View Use Certain Point Certain Way Plate
Maybe it's good to be traumatized in your youth, to make you think differently and step outside the box. Anybody can be comfortable, but if you get your world rocked, shaken as it were, then maybe it causes you to really go to a whole other level in a different way. Charlie Trotter
Good You Youth World Think Other Way Shaken Outside Step Make Box Comfortable Causes Go Were Get Maybe Anybody Different Then Really Your Whole Traumatized Different Way Differently Level
As tough as I've been on anybody, as hard as I've ever been on anybody, I have been harder on myself. By far. Charlie Trotter
Myself Tough Been Anybody Far Hard Ever Harder
Life's too short. You may be on this planet for 80 years at best or who knows, but you can't just pedal around and do the same thing forever. Charlie Trotter
Life Best You Same Thing Too Knows Around Years Forever Same May Short Just Planet Who Thing Pedal
Sometimes I think I should have chosen a line of work where it was just me alone in the room, with the sun coming in, and God, insofar as he or she exists, smiling down upon me. Then I would have never been accused of being a tyrant, other than towards myself. Charlie Trotter
Work God Alone Myself Me Sometimes Down Think Other Tyrant Sun Would Insofar Never He He Or She Towards She Smiling Coming Line Been Exists Than Accused Just Being Where Room Then Should Chosen
There has been no great surprise, no sudden revelation. I knew pretty much what I was getting into. What I've learned is that a restaurant can be as much of an art as you want it to be, but it has to be a successful business first. Charlie Trotter
Art Great You Business First Has-Been Restaurant Pretty Knew Learned Revelation Surprise Been Getting Want Much Successful Sudden
For over 20 years, I have been saying that Chicago is by far one of the greatest food cities in the world. Charlie Trotter
Saying Food World Cities Over Greatest Been Years Chicago Far
In my case, vertical food was less about standing things up than layering things: more an attempt to gain texture by weaving things together. Charlie Trotter
Food Together Weaving About Case More Attempt Vertical Up Texture Than Gain Less Standing Things
It's a challenge to demonstrate that you can prepare some really interesting food with humble ingredients. Charlie Trotter
Food You Humble Challenge Some Demonstrate Interesting Ingredients Really Prepare
Ultimately, I want to prepare food that will be recognized equally in Tokyo, London, and Paris. I am after that universality, that transcendence. Charlie Trotter
Food Will Recognized London Paris Equally Am Ultimately Want After Tokyo Prepare Universality
I don't know how to put this gently, but I'm trying to tackle the biggest question of all, which is the God question. Charlie Trotter
God Tackle Put Know Gently How Question Trying Biggest Which
The body cannot produce enzymes in perfect combinations to metabolize your foods as completely as the food enzymes created by nature do. This results in partially digested fats, proteins, and starches that can clog your body's intestinal tract and arteries. Charlie Trotter
Food Nature Fats Foods Perfect Results Combinations Proteins Tract Clog Cannot Produce Created Body Your
My fantasy is to have a restaurant where there are no written menus, but where you just ask people, 'What are you in the mood for? Fish? Meat? White wine?' Charlie Trotter
You People Wine White Mood Restaurant Written Fish Just Where Fantasy Ask Meat
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