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Sauce is certainly ancestral to French cooking. The technique is very tricky, but it's also very fundamental. Daniel Boulud
Cooking Ancestral Tricky Also French Very Certainly Fundamental Technique Sauce
It's not good to thicken sauce with too much butter because it can cause heaviness. You don't want to avoid butter, but you also don't want to put too much - add it slowly. Daniel Boulud
Good You Cause Too Much Too Add Slowly Put Also Because Want Much Avoid Butter Sauce
People often think of New York as a city, a concrete jungle with soaring skyscrapers and yellow taxis and the bright lights of Times Square. And it is that, in part. But beyond that, it's rolling hills of fruit orchards and fields of grain and ice-cold waters brimming with oysters. Daniel Humm
Fruit People Think Waters City Part Lights New Beyond Hills Concrete Yellow Square Times Jungle Times Square York Rolling Often New York Grain Soaring Fields Skyscrapers Bright Bright Lights
The perfect ham and cheese sandwich is all about focusing on quality ingredients and about simple techniques. You start with great bread, a well-cured ham and a sharp local cheese, and the rest is easy. A little butter in a pan and a little patience - in the end you'll have a sandwich that is at once comforting and delicious. Daniel Humm
Great You Patience Quality Comforting Simple Cheese Rest Local Once Focusing Easy About Delicious Perfect Sharp Ham End Bread In The End Little Sandwich Ingredients Butter Techniques Start Pan
You've got to listen to your guests. Daniel Humm
You Guests Got Listen Your
What people don't think about when they think about New York is this amazing farmland that grows wonderful fruits, vegetables, seafood, game, and fowl just outside of Manhattan. Daniel Humm
Game People Wonderful Vegetables Amazing Think About Outside New York Just New York Manhattan Fruits Seafood Farmland Grows
I think New York is truly unique in its singular combination of the quality of both the talent it attracts and the ingredients it grows. There are plenty of other places in the world with wonderful natural resources, but the people who come here to pursue their passions for food and cooking - they are one of a kind. Daniel Humm
Food Quality Natural Cooking People Wonderful World Think Other Resources Plenty Kind Both Pursue Combination New Talent Come Attracts Passions Singular Truly York New York Places Natural Resources Ingredients Who Unique Grows Here
I do believe there will always be a place for beautiful cookbooks that are real books. Daniel Humm
Beautiful Will Believe Books Always Real Place Cookbooks
The Rolling Stones seemed very loose and wild, but when you read about them, you realize that everything they did is very deliberate. Daniel Humm
You Wild Everything About Seemed Deliberate Read Loose Very Did Rolling Stones Rolling Stones Them Realize
I love New York, where I live - it's the best city in the world. Nowhere in the world do you have so many nationalities that are actually mixed together - it's so multicultural. Daniel Humm
Love Best You Together World Live City New Mixed York New York Where Multicultural Many Nowhere Actually
I go to Franny's in Brooklyn a lot. It's just a casual Italian place, but I could eat there every day. Daniel Humm
Day Every Day Every Brooklyn Eat Could Casual Go Italian Lot Just Place
New York's food scene is truly unique because it is this wonderful melting pot where immigrants from all over the world have brought with them their cuisines and their ingredients. Daniel Humm
Food Wonderful World Melting Melting Pot Immigrants Brought Pot Scene Over New Because Cuisines Truly York Where Them Ingredients Unique
I never finished high school. In fact, I hated going to school. Daniel Humm
School Finished High Hated High School Fact Never Going In Fact
We can use all the scientific tools, but it will never replace the palate or the talent of the chefs who are in the kitchen. Daniel Humm
Will Tools Kitchen Never Talent Chefs Scientific Replace Use Who Palate
When I was a child, she'd have me wash the lettuce ten times or open walnuts by hand to make a cake. I was like, 'Mom, this is ridiculous.' But now? I run my kitchen the same way. Daniel Humm
Mom Me Cake Way Run Ten Ten Times Kitchen Open Like She Make Hand Times Child Same Wash Ridiculous Now Lettuce
I grew up in Zurich until I was 12, and I've always come to Vorderer Sternen for a sausage, a hunk of bread, and some mustard. Daniel Humm
Hunk Mustard Some Come Until Always Up Bread Grew Sausage
H. Schwarzenbach is a very traditional place. The store opened in the late 1800s, importing specialty items from all over the world. It was curated before we even used that word. Daniel Humm
World Word Before Late Opened Over Traditional Items Very Store Place Used Even Specialty
One of my favorite stores in the Old Town is Buchbinderei. It's this tiny stationery shop where the owner, Doris Feldman, makes these beautiful hand-bound notebooks I always buy for gifts. Daniel Humm
Beautiful Buy Old Favorite Gifts Town Makes Always Shop Owner Tiny Where Stores Notebooks
I have fond memories from growing up in Switzerland and drinking a glass of warm milk with a spoonful of honey before bed. Daniel Humm
Memories Drinking Before Honey Fond Fond Memories Glass Spoonful Bed Up Warm Growing Growing Up Milk Switzerland
When you look at a kitchen, you tend to see that the people who are doing really well are those who have worked with the same chef or stayed in one restaurant for a significant amount of time. Daniel Humm
Time You People Those Significant Restaurant See Stayed Kitchen Tend Look Well Chef Doing Same Worked Really Who Amount
Whenever we create dishes, we work very carefully and ask ourselves, 'Is there anything on the dish that really doesn't make the dish better?' Then we eliminate that. We try to stay very focused on really showcasing everything on the plate so nothing gets lost. Daniel Humm
Work Better Try Lost Nothing Carefully Everything Focused Ourselves Stay Make Very Gets Whenever Dish Dishes Anything Ask Then Create Really Plate Eliminate
I think sometimes with the parsnip, people are maybe a little afraid and don't use it as often. Daniel Humm
People Sometimes Think Often Maybe Afraid Little Use
A cook never knows if the dish he perfected for hours was described properly or if a guest even liked his food. It's hard to spend hours perfecting a dish only to relinquish control. But chefs need to put aside their egos and trust the people serving the food. Daniel Humm
Food Trust People Control Guest Spend Relinquish Properly Only Never He Perfecting Put Hours Liked Knows Chefs His Egos Dish Aside Cook Hard Even Serving Need
I realized I was never going to be Lance Armstrong. And in biking, if you want to make money, you have to be the best. Daniel Humm
Best You Money Never Make Armstrong Going Want Lance Armstrong Realized Biking
My dad was not happy about my not becoming an architect like him. Daniel Humm
Happy About Architect Like Him Becoming Dad
It's nice when there's stuff in the middle of the table. That's when the best conversations start to happen. Daniel Humm
Best Nice Table Stuff Middle Happen Conversations Start
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