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America is a such a melting pot, I'm not sure if roast chicken is the classic comfort food for everybody.

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Chicken, Everybody, Sure, Pot

I like the dynamic of PBS. They're very honest and authentic.

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Honest, Like, Very, PBS

Having sharp, great knives will enable you to cook very precisely. Knife skills are essential in cooking.

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Will, Very, Having, Enable

In a professional kitchen, the idea is to have your cooks not moving much while they're cooking. You want them to stay in the same spot.

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Want, Idea, Them, Kitchen

When I am about to have a difficult project, I dream I am climbing a mountain. When everything is going fine, I dream I am going down the mountain.

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Difficult, Going, About, I Dream

Everybody wants to support his own region and economy and farming. If we can preserve the land and if we can preserve the ocean, we all know, deep inside that we're doing the right thing.

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Deep, Doing, Everybody, Region

California is lucky, the East Coast is lucky because we get great seafood and a lot of produce from Florida, locally in good weather, but in the winter we have to buy it.

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Lucky, Florida, Seafood, East Coast

A lot of people believe that when you are Buddhist, you are the Dalai Lama. I'm certainly not.

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Lot, Certainly, Dalai Lama, Lama

I find the organic wave much more interesting in America than in France.

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Interesting, More, Find, Organic

The Cheesecake Factory's not that bad.

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Bad, Factory, Cheesecake

I like very much Louis Vuitton. My wife loves it too.

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Like, Very, Too, Louis

I'm very inspired by other cultures and very often use what I perceive to be exotic ingredients.

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Other, Very, Use, Exotic

I see a lot of people who change careers in the middle of their life and they think it's a good idea to come in the kitchen.

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Think, Middle, Idea, Kitchen

As young cook, especially in France, they're very tough in the kitchen. The idea is to make you humble and learn fast.

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Humble, Young, Very, Kitchen

I am not a picture guy. I like to live in the present and keep the image of the past vivid in my mind. I don't need the precision of the picture.

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Mind, Like, Image, Vivid

It has been stressful to be a French resident in America.

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Been, Stressful, Resident, French

It's a very naive idea to think that the chef is cooking everything, and, on top of it, is irreplaceable. That would mean that basically he is the only genius, and there are idiots all around him, which doesn't make sense.

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Idea, Irreplaceable, Very, Naive

For me, I do not wish to build an empire.

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Me, Wish, Build, Empire

I'm a very bad baker.

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Bad, Very, Baker

If you can't think like an onion or a carrot or a tomato, you may be a technician, but you won't understand what you're doing, and your dish will be flat.

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Doing, Think, May, Technician

I am a Buddhist, therefore I should not be collecting anything - however, I have a collection of Buddhas. I have a lot of them.

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However, Them, Collection, Buddhas

It took me all my life to learn how to salt a tomato.

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My Life, How, Took, All My Life

I don't follow the food trends.

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Food, Follow, Trends

Factory farming's evil; you know that.

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Evil, Know, Factory, Farming

When I see someone who has responsibilities, most of the time I can pinpoint that person because of the way he carries himself.

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I Can, Way, I See, Carries

I come from a family of farmers on both sides of my family.

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Both Sides, Farmers, Come, Sides

The nature of human beings is to eat meat and fruits and vegetables, and therefore we have to kill animals. I don't have a problem with that. But it's a sacred moment. It's a gift of life.

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Nature, Gift, Vegetables, Meat

One thing I don't like is complaints.

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Like, One Thing, Thing, Complaints

Obviously California is fantastic in terms of produce, vegetables.

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California, Terms, Obviously, Fantastic

A lot of foreign people say, when asking about eating habits, 'What is your guilty pleasure?' I have no guilt. Whatever I do, I enjoy and it's the point. I think if you start to feel guilty about it, that's a problem. So, no guilty pleasures. I have pleasure and no guilt at all.

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Habits, Asking, I Think, Foreign

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