My biggest challenge is cooking traditional French dishes, which usually require very specific techniques and methods. That's just not my style... I cook from the soul.
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I still feel that French cooking is the most important in the world, one of the few that has rules. If you follow the rules, you can do pretty well.
As young cook, especially in France, they're very tough in the kitchen. The idea is to make you humble and learn fast.
I actually struggled through teaching myself to cook because I'm completely ignorant in the kitchen. So I did really macho things like trying to make my own curry. Really hardcore stuff.
I went to L'Academie de Cuisine in Gaithersburg, Maryland, and I think French cooking is the basis for a lot of classical cuisine, a foundation of a lot of other cuisines. That said, it's not the only way to approach a cooking career.
I think I should learn French and be a better cook - basic, really good life stuff.
I cook. I did the Escoffier course in Paris when I was 21 in one of those periods when it was like a pause. I can cook anything Italian, Chinese.
I feel like there's a lot of tasks in cooking that I want to master, that I want to do better.
I like to cook with the philosophy of using great ingredients and not altering them too much.
I can't do most things, if I'm honest, but cooking I definitely can't do.
It's not really the life of cooking that's hard - it's what you make of it and what level you push yourself to.
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