“Sometimes taking time is actually a shortcut.”
“But shortcuts are dangerous; we cannot delude ourselves that our knowledge is further along than it actually is.”
“If you take a shortcut now, you'll be taking them for the rest of your career.”
“If you are not extreme, then people will take shortcuts because they don't fear you.”
“Cooking is not about convenience and it's not about shortcuts. Our hunger for the twenty-minute gourmet meal, for one-pot ease and prewashed, precut ingredients has severed our lifeline to the satisfactions of cooking. Take your time. Take a long time. Move slowly and deliberately and with great attention.”
“Sometimes it seems that we initiate a scene and sometimes it seems that we’re just taking part in the scene. Actually, we’re initiating them all.”