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The best pastas are cut with bronze dies that give them a rough texture and allow the sauce to cling. Joe Bastianich
Best Bronze Give Allow Cling Texture Dies Them Cut Rough Sauce
Beans are a real go-to for me. Joe Bastianich
Me Beans Real
Selling wine is all about sizing people up, and it takes a certain amount of chutzpah. The tableside bottle sell is a very funny thing - you take a look at the guy's blazer, what kind of shoes he's wearing, what kind of broad he's with. Is he trying to be a hero? Joe Bastianich
Funny You People Hero Wine Shoes Funny Thing Broad Kind Wearing About Guy Take Bottle He Blazer Takes Look Sell Up Selling Very Trying Certain Thing Amount
The general manager is kind of like the step into darkness when you reach the top of the league. As GM, you're responsible for everything, including the maitre d's and the sommeliers - all these people who have their own agendas. But you probably make less than the maitre d' and have a lot more work and a lot more headaches. Joe Bastianich
Work You People Darkness Own Everything Top Kind Responsible General More General Manager Step Headaches League Like Reach Make Lot Than Manager Agendas Less Who Including
Being general manager is like being the de facto owner. It's like wearing the crown of 'Restaurant Man' without being 'Restaurant Man.' You're trying to run the business, but you're running the ranch without riding the big horse. Joe Bastianich
You Man Business Big Ranch Run Running Restaurant Wearing General General Manager Horse Crown Facto Like Without Trying Manager Owner Being Riding
It's kind of like a midlife crisis kind of thing. When you turn 40, you have to run the marathon, while all the parts still work properly. Joe Bastianich
Work You Crisis Kind Run Properly Like Parts Still While Turn Marathon Thing
'MasterChef' is the search for America's culinary amateur talent, so this is a search for the best home cook in America, and it's our job to figure out who that is. Joe Bastianich
Best Home Job Our Out Talent Amateur Culinary America Cook Figure Who Search
'Restaurant Man' is kind of the story, an unabridged story of what happened in my life, the good bad and ugly. Some people might glean some life lessons. It is honest, not written as a press release. Joe Bastianich
Life Good Man People Ugly Some People My Life Press Release Kind Bad Restaurant Some Life Lessons Written Happened Story Might Lessons Honest
Carbs - especially pasta - are the fuel my body needs to maintain an athletic lifestyle. Joe Bastianich
Needs Athletic Lifestyle Maintain Pasta Fuel Body Body Needs Carbs
Frankly, Milan kind of sucks as a restaurant city. It's so fashion-obsessed that people don't pay that much attention to the food. Joe Bastianich
Food People Pay Frankly Kind City Restaurant Attention Much Much Attention Milan Sucks
New York in spring and autumn is absolutely beautiful, but the winter is absolutely depressing. Joel Robuchon
Beautiful Winter Spring Autumn Absolutely New York New York Depressing
I'm open to starting restaurants anywhere as long as the produce that's readily available is high quality. For example, I'm never doing a restaurant in Shanghai because I saw the produce available there, and it's just not good. I won't do a restaurant in Moscow for the same reason. Joel Robuchon
Good Quality Example Long Saw High Restaurant Restaurants High-Quality Shanghai Never Open Moscow For Example Readily Because Doing Same Just Anywhere Available Produce Reason Starting
When new cooks come to work for me, they obviously make mistakes at the beginning or there's some messiness to the presentation. What I always say to them is: 'If you were cooking this for your mother or your girlfriend, would you make those mistakes?' Joel Robuchon
Work Me You Cooking Mother Mistakes Beginning Say Those Would Some Girlfriend New Come Obviously Make Always Were Them Your Cooks Presentation
When I used to have a show on French TV, people would ask me how my jacket stayed spotless while cooking. Your whole area has to be clean - and you have to keep it that way. Joel Robuchon
Me You Cooking People Way TV Would Stayed Area Clean French How Jacket While Ask Your Used Show Whole Keep
When you cook, you take a life. When you eat fish, or meat, you take a life. And you must be very respectful of the ingredients and that is very important. Joel Robuchon
Life You Important Respectful Must Eat Take Fish Very Ingredients Cook Meat
One should eat cumin every day! Joel Robuchon
Day Every Day Every Eat Should
We the chefs have a responsibility to learn about the chemical makeup of food! Joel Robuchon
Food Responsibility About Learn Chefs Chemical Makeup
Vegas represents the idea of America I had as a kid. The big cars, the pretty girls; everything is possible in Vegas. Joel Robuchon
Car Girl Big Everything Kid Possible Pretty Pretty Girls Vegas Had Idea Big Cars America Represents
I've never followed a vegan or vegetarian diet in the past, but I think I could do it. It would not be easy. I have worked with nutritionists who have said a vegan diet is not necessarily all positive for your health, because you need nutrients you only find in meats. I believe in a balanced diet. Joel Robuchon
Positive Health You Vegan Past Believe Think Nutrients Would Easy Find Followed Only Could Vegan Diet Never Vegetarian Balanced Balanced Diet Because Said Diet In The Past Worked Your Who Necessarily Need
I travel a lot. If you look at my suitcase, everything is extremely well-packed and well-folded; people who travel with me are impressed at how organized I am. Some would refer to me as a maniac for this. Joel Robuchon
Me You Travel People Suitcase Everything Extremely Would Some Look How Am Refer Lot Impressed Maniac Organized Who
In France today, people no longer eat as much heavy food and fat as they did 15 or 20 years ago. These days, French cooking, through the influence of 'grande cuisine,' has become a bit lighter. And we are beginning to discover the original flavors of our produce. Joel Robuchon
Today Food Cooking People Become Beginning Our France Bit Eat Through Lighter Longer Days French Cuisine Discover Years Years Ago Did Influence Heavy Flavors Produce Much Original Fat
When a dish works, it works for everyone, whether you're Asian, European, African, American or anybody else. Joel Robuchon
You Else Everyone American Anybody African Anybody Else Dish African-American Whether Asian European Works
My role as a chef is respecting the produce. Why should I change and mask the original flavors of the produce that I'm utilizing? Joel Robuchon
Change Mask Respecting Chef Role Flavors Produce Should Original Utilizing Why
The worst thing for me is to not taste what I'm eating, to not know what I'm eating. It upsets me to no avail. Joel Robuchon
Me Worst Worst Thing Eating Know Taste Upsets Avail Thing
I've never thought of myself as having that much of a temper. But it's true that I can't stand it when things are not done properly. When that happens, I cannot control my reaction. Joel Robuchon
Myself Thought Control Temper Properly Having Never True Reaction Done Cannot Happens Much Stand Things
I think I grew up with the idea that there was something comforting about preparing food. Joel Robuchon
Food Comforting Think About Something Idea Up Grew Preparing
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