Cooking is like snow skiing: If you don’t fall at least 10 times, then you’re not skiing hard enough.
Food Quotes
My cooking isn’t creatively cutting edge. They’re more from “remember” flavors. So, I tend to take a recipe for boeuf bourguignon and make it simpler. I’m a big believer in making a better potato chip. That’s my goal. Take something that everybody just loves, but make it better than anybody else.
Thanksgiving dinners take 18 hours to prepare. They are consumed in 12 minutes. Half-times take 12 minutes. This is not a coincidence.
An optimist is a person who starts a new diet on Thanksgiving Day.
Turkey: A large bird whose flesh, when eaten on certain religious anniversaries, has the peculiar property of attesting piety and gratitude.
If you think about a Thanksgiving dinner, it’s really like making a large chicken.
I hate turkeys. If you stand in the meat section at the grocery store long enough, you start to get mad at turkeys. There’s turkey ham, turkey bologna, turkey pastrami. Some one needs to tell the turkey, ‘man, just be yourself.’
I can’t cook a Thanksgiving dinner. All I can make is cold cereal and maybe toast. (Charlie Brown, “A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving”)
I come from a family where gravy is considered a beverage.
Thanksgiving is the meal we aspire for other meals to resemble.
