Pete Wells famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

My feeling is, if I can describe the way a steak looks on the plate, when it's just kind of juices are coming out, and it's almost alive, and just wants to be eaten, I hope that people will feel it, more than they will feel me describing the tangy minerality of the dry-aged beef between my teeth.
-- Pete Wells

#People #Feelings #Beef
I don't think I've ever met nachos that I didn't like before. It's almost inconceivable that nachos can be bad. It makes no sense.
-- Pete Wells

#Thinking #Nachos #Mets
There is often with restaurant reviews in particular, I think, this kind of impulse to be deferential and bow down to the greatness of the restaurant and the greatness of the chef, and then with great regret to say, "And yet, all is not as it should be in the kingdom," and I didn't want to do any of that.
-- Pete Wells

#Regret #Greatness #Thinking
Everybody used to say going to restaurants... is like theater, there's stage sets, there's drama, there's play acting and you watch the show. And now, boy, everything's just become so serious. And you sit at the counter and the chef comes out and tells you what he did to the Brussels sprouts leaves and no, there's not a lot of dancing.
-- Pete Wells

#Drama #Boys #Play
I find that the dead-end route is to try to describe what's going on in your mouth.
-- Pete Wells

#Trying #Mouths #Ends
If you say, 'Oh, there was a little bit of acidity from the lime juice on the left side of my tongue, and then this beautiful, smooth pureed potato with some crunchy shallots on top, and it all came together,' you never will get out of that sentence alive.
-- Pete Wells

#Beautiful #Together #Alive
I just think that we show an awful lot of deference to chefs in our culture and maybe not enough deference to customers.
-- Pete Wells

#Thinking #Awful #Culture

Like most parents, I've been stumped by homework, the big questions, such as: 'What is the point of geography - the pilot always knows where we are going?'. Answer: 'If you didn't know any geography, people would think you were an American, and you wouldn't be able to put them right because you wouldn't know where they live.'
We must see what in the Israeli identity - in the Israeli - we can give to other people rather than speaking so often of taking, expanding territory.
People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.
People who deal with life generously and large-heartedly go on multiplying relationships to the end.
Oh, Eeyore, you are wet!â€ said Piglet, feeling him. Eeyore shook himself, and asked somebody to explain to Piglet what happened when you had been inside a river for quite a long time.
I'm feeling how profoundly my family disappointed me and in the end how I retreated, how I became nothing, because that was much less risky than attempting to be something, to be anything in the face of such contempt.
You compose because you want to somehow summarize in some permanent form your most basic feelings about being alive, to set down some sort of permanent statement about the way it feels to live now, today.
The pressure I put on myself is the only pressure I'm feeling once I get into the game.
I am for joining a free trade zone. The European Union is not such zone, but a zone of raging bureaucracy which stears every hectolitre of wine, and every tone of beef.
The world's environment can no longer handle beef.

Pete Wells famous quotes

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