Michael Ruhlman Quotes

• Recipes are not assembly manuals. Recipes are guides and suggestions for a process that is infinitely nuanced. Recipes are sheet music.

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  Suggestions   Recipes   Assembly  

  Michael Ruhlman, Anthony Bourdain (2007). “The Elements of Cooking: Translating the Chef's Craft for Every Kitchen”, p.200, Simon and Schuster

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• We better take care of the earth or we're gonna have shitty food, and having shitty food is no fun.

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  Fun   Earth   Care  

  Michael Ruhlman (2006). “The Reach of a Chef: Professional Cooks in the Age of Celebrity”, p.25, Penguin

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• If you could choose to master a single ingredient, no choice would teach you more about cooking than the egg. It is an end in itself; it's a multipurpose ingredient; it's an all-purpose garnish; it's an invaluable tool. The egg teaches your hands finesse and delicacy. It helps your arms develop strength and stamina. It instructs in the way proteins behave in heat and in the powerful ways we can change food mechanically. It's a lever for getting other foods to behave in great ways. Learn to take the egg to its many differing ends, and you've enlarged your culinary repertoire by a factor of ten.

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  Powerful   Hands   Eggs  

  Michael Ruhlman (2011). “Ruhlman's Twenty: 20 Techniques, 200 Recipes, A Cook's Manifesto”, p.104, Chronicle Books

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• I love this book! There are very few cookbooks published today that add something truly new and distinctive to the literature of food and cooking. Jennifer McLagan's Fat is a smart, thoughtful book that ultimately asks us to understand our food better.

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  Smart   Book   Thoughtful  

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• People, you have six senses! The last one is common! Use it!

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  People   Use   Lasts  

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• Only when a chef changed the way you saw the world, through cooking, did food truly become art, and that was rare indeed.

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  Art   Food   Cooking  

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• I believe it's a cook's moral obligation to add more butter given the chance.

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  Believe   Cooking   Add  

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• Stories--from the literature of our culture to descriptions of our days to the lunatic's ravings--appear to be hardwired into us. Even in sleep we tell ourselves stories through our dreams, and it's been shown that those who are prevented from doing so cease to function.

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  Dream   Sleep   Culture  

  Michael Ruhlman (2005). “House: A Memoir”, Viking Press

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• A kitchen is a good place to be, almost always the best place in the house.

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  House   Kitchen   Best Place  

  Michael Ruhlman (2006). “The Reach of a Chef: Professional Cooks in the Age of Celebrity”, p.337, Penguin

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