15 Quotes by Michael Ruhlman

I believe it's a cook's moral obligation to add more butter given the chance.

‪Cooking is so infinitely nuanced that to write completely about how to cook any dish would require a manuscript longer than a David Foster Wallace novel and include twice as many footnotes within twice as many endnotes. And then no one would be able to follow it, let alone cook from it.

Recipes are not assembly manuals. Recipes are guides and suggestions for a process that is infinitely nuanced. Recipes are sheet music.

A kitchen is a good place to be, almost always the best place in the house.

I believe it’s a cook’s moral obligation to add more butter given the chance.

Stories – from the literature of our culture to descriptions of our days to the lunatic’s ravings – appear to be hardwired into us. Even in sleep we tell ourselves stories through our dreams, and it’s been shown that those who are prevented from doing so cease to function.

Only when a chef changed the way you saw the world, through cooking, did food truly become art, and that was rare indeed.

He carried the deep, intuitive understanding of the power of food to connect people, knew that food was not simply a device for entertaining or filling our bodies and pleasing our senses but rather that it served as a direct channel to the greater pleasures of being alive, and that it could be so only when that food was shared with friends and lovers and family.

People, you have six senses! The last one is common! Use it!