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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
At the restaurant, we strive to create an excellent experience for our guests, and in the kitchen, we could not do this without having access to the best ingredients, equipment and tools, including Victorinox Cutlery. Daniel Humm
Best Experience Tools Our Guests Strive Restaurant Having Kitchen Excellent Could Without Access Equipment Create Ingredients Including
It is essential for me to work with tools that are reliable and offer complete functionality, which is why I feel so confident about representing the Victorinox brand. Daniel Humm
Work Me Tools Complete Reliable About Feel Brand Offer Confident Essential Representing Which Functionality Why
At Eleven Madison Park, instead of brioche or chocolates, we give our guests a jar of breakfast granola as a gift at the end of a meal. We also make savory granolas. Daniel Humm
Gift Breakfast Meal Our Guests Madison Give Park Instead Also Make End Jar Chocolates Eleven
We use many expressions of fennel: blended with potato, it's an earthy, rich puree; the raw fronds add a fresh, green note; and the braised version gives it a luscious, home-cooked feel, something people can connect to - you need that in any dish. Daniel Humm
You People Rich Add Something Potato Gives Something People Raw Feel Blended Fresh Version Green Any Dish Note Use Connect Many Expressions Need
At my restaurant, we made a dessert called 'milk and honey.' It's milk ice cream that looks like a snowball, and then you cut into it, and honey runs out. Daniel Humm
You Made Honey Dessert Out Restaurant Runs Like Looks Snowball Ice Ice Cream Cut Cream Then Milk
Over the years, I've found myself drawn more and more to simpler meals, to dishes that are focused, and to experiences that strip away the excess. Daniel Humm
Myself Strip Drawn Focused More More And More Excess Simpler Over Years Experiences Dishes Meals Found Away
Amuse-bouches are an opportunity to push boundaries. Daniel Humm
Opportunity Push Boundaries
Yes, people do come across the street to say hi, but as they approach and get near, my perception of space begins to dissolve, and a new interest takes over that is primarily emotional, and with it comes a desire to touch, which may be a human interest, but not the interest of my work. Diego Giacometti
Work People Space Perception Approach Dissolve Say Hi Touch Emotional Takes Primarily Over New Come Yes Begins Get May Human Which Interest Across Near Street Desire
We owe our success to them, and also to the fact that, as the saying goes, two 'Eds' are better than one. Edmond H. Fischer
Success Saying Better Our Fact Also Than Owe Goes Them Two
There is nothing that man fears more than the touch of the unknown. He wants to see what is reaching towards him, and to be able to recognize or at least classify it. Man always tends to avoid physical contact with anything strange. Elias Canetti
Man Strange Fears Nothing Unknown Recognize Physical See Able Touch Classify More Tends He Contact Towards Reaching Him Always Least Than Anything Wants Avoid
Success listens only to applause. To all else it is deaf. Elias Canetti
Success Else Only Deaf Listens Applause
The process of writing has something infinite about it. Even though it is interrupted each night, it is one single notation. Elias Canetti
Writing Single Though About Something Infinite Process Notation Even Each Each Night Night Interrupted
He who is obsessed by death is made guilty by it. Elias Canetti
Death Made Guilty He Obsessed Who
As if one could know the good a person is capable of, when one doesn't know the bad he might do. Elias Canetti
Good Bad Could He Know Person Capable Might
A 'modern' man has nothing to add to modernism, if only because he has nothing to oppose it with. The well-adapted drop off the dead limb of time like lice. Elias Canetti
Time Man Drop Oppose Nothing Add Lice Only He Like Dead Limb Because Off Modern Modern Man Modernism
People's fates are simplified by their names. Elias Canetti
People Simplified Names Fates
Whenever you observe an animal closely, you feel as if a human being sitting inside were making fun of you. Elias Canetti
You Animal Human Being Inside Observe Feel Making Were Closely Sitting Human Whenever Being Fun
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