Wolfgang Puck famous quotes

Cooking is like painting or writing a song. Just as there are only so many notes or colors, there are only so many flavors - it's how you combine them that sets you apart.
-- Wolfgang Puck

#Song #Writing #Color

A chef is a mixture maybe of artistry and craft. You have to learn the craft really to get there.
-- Wolfgang Puck

#Mixtures #Crafts #Chef

For me, cooking is an expression of the land where you are and the culture of that place.
-- Wolfgang Puck

#Land #Expression #Cooking

I like the Japanese knives, I like French knives. Whatever's sharp.
-- Wolfgang Puck

#Knives

A good chef has to be a manager, a businessman and a great cook. To marry all three together is sometimes difficult.
-- Wolfgang Puck

#Together #Three #Chef

I grew up in Austria, and for me real comfort food is Wiener Schnitzel. Wiener Schnitzel and mashed potatoes because it reminds me of my youth... It reminds me when I grow up and it feels very comforting.
-- Wolfgang Puck

#Growing Up #Real #Comforting

Restaurants are like having children: its fun to make them, maybe, but then you have them for good and bad. You are going to have to raise them and if something goes wrong when they are 30 years old, they will still be your little boy.
-- Wolfgang Puck

#Children #Fun #Boys

For me, I don't expect to have a really amazing meal each time I dine out. Having a good meal with your loved ones - that's what makes the experience.
-- Wolfgang Puck

#Meals #Loved Ones #Dine

Only you can judge your life. You have to live up to your own expectations.
-- Wolfgang Puck

#Expectations #Judging

I like to be firm. But it is easier to be nice than to be nasty.
-- Wolfgang Puck

#Nice #Nasty #Easier

A lot of restaurants serve good food, but they don't have very good service.
-- Wolfgang Puck

#Good Food #Restaurants #Very Good

I believe that London is the most exciting food city in Europe.
-- Wolfgang Puck

#Believe #Europe #Cities

I grew up so poor in Austria that we never took a vacation with my family.
-- Wolfgang Puck

#Vacation #Austria #My Family

I learn more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes.
-- Wolfgang Puck

#Mistake #Restaurants

A lot of chefs are traditional and do it very well. But the ones who are the most successful are the ones who change things. That is why someone like Heston Blumenthal is a genius.
-- Wolfgang Puck

#Successful #Genius #Chef

I tell everybody the same thing: You have to make every dish so when you taste it, you should remember it when you go home.
-- Wolfgang Puck

#Home #Taste #Remember

I think it's really important to keep on staying motivated.
-- Wolfgang Puck

#Thinking #Important #Motivated

I really love Paris. It's my favorite city.
-- Wolfgang Puck

#Paris #Cities #My Favorite

There is no value with just one restaurant or with one person. The brand has to be bigger than the person.
-- Wolfgang Puck

#Bigger #Restaurants #Persons

I left school when I was 14 to work in kitchens.
-- Wolfgang Puck

#School #Kitchen

Young people want to be famous before they know how to cook, before they know how to treat people, before they know what hospitality means. I stayed in France for seven years and Austria for three, so before I was a chef anywhere I was already cooking for 10 years.
-- Wolfgang Puck

#Mean #Years #People

Italian food is all about ingredients and it's not fussy and it's not fancy.
-- Wolfgang Puck

#Italian #Ingredients #Fancy

When I was 27, if I didn't put 15 things in one dish I wasn't happy.
-- Wolfgang Puck

#Dishes

What I don't like is breakfast in the morning. I have a double-espresso cappuccino, but no food.
-- Wolfgang Puck

#Morning #Espresso #Breakfast

There's a lot of processed food in America and I know that can make some tourists who're used to fresh food feel sick.
-- Wolfgang Puck

#America #Sick #Tourists

The most important thing for me is to really buy the best ingredient.
-- Wolfgang Puck

#Important #Ingredients

Television in the '80s was very limited. There was no Food Network.
-- Wolfgang Puck

#Television #Food Network #80s

One thing I always say is being a great chef today is not enough - you have to be a great businessman.
-- Wolfgang Puck

#Today #Chef #Great Business

Now everybody thinks that once you do Top Chef, then 13 weeks later you're a chef. Nobody wants to learn to cook anymore.
-- Wolfgang Puck

#Thinking #Want #Chef

New Yorkers think they have everything, all the best art and music. But really L.A. is a better place.
-- Wolfgang Puck

#Art #Thinking #All The Best

I think the time of the formal dinners is over.
-- Wolfgang Puck

#Thinking #Dinner #Formal

Prep things in advance so that you don't have to cook everything at the last moment.
-- Wolfgang Puck

#Lasts #Moments #Preps

To me, an airplane is a great place to diet.
-- Wolfgang Puck

#Airplane

When you have made as many mistakes as I have, then you can be as good as me.
-- Wolfgang Puck

#Mistake #Made