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Quote of the Day Fresh quotes Topics Authors I'm Feeling Lucky Disable ads! 31 quotes by Grant Achatz Grant Achatz (born April 25, 1974) is an American chef and restaurateur often identified as one of the leaders in molecular gastronomy or progressive cuisine. His Chicago restaurant Alinea has won numerous accolades, and Achatz himself has won numerous awards from prominent culinary institutions and publications including the "Rising Star Chef of the Year Award" for 2003, "Best Chef in the United States" for 2008, and a 2012 "Who's Who Inductee"... Read full biography of Grant Achatz → 1 2 3 Ctrl → Food can be expressive and therefore food can be art. 0 The most luxurious thing to me is having an hour of my day, which rarely happens, to listen to my iPod and sit on my couch. That's how I unwind. 0 I don't care if you're doing haute cuisine or burgers and pizza, just do it right. 0 Part of becoming a little bit older and having the opportunities that I have, you want to start giving back to people who have been influential and... → 0 I had D minuses in chemistry and all of the sciences, and now I'm known as a molecular gastronomist. 0 My life has been such a blur since I was 18, 19 years old. I haven't even had time to contemplate my own life. By forcing yourself to write your... → 0 I lived my whole life in the kitchen. Not only that, but it's the passion, it's the love for cooking and food. It's dictated my entire... → 0 There are about 700 flavors that you can smell, but only five you can taste. A lot of times what you're perceiving as flavor has nothing to do... → 0 Whatever it is you're doing, whether it's your career or a particular focus, if you're trying to be the best you can possibly be, then... → 0 Anything that could ever prevent me from achieving a goal, I put in a box, tape it up, throw it over my shoulder. You aim for a goal and attain it.... → 0 A cookbook is not like being an author. It's writing down recipes; it's not writing. 0 Food is a necessary component to life. People can live without Renoir, Mozart, Gaudi, Beckett, but they cannot live without food. 0 What makes the food that we do at Alinea so interesting on the outside is that we really don't let ourselves say no to an idea. 0 1 2 3 Ctrl → Add a quote!


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