Wolfgang Puck
Wolfgang Puck
Wolfgang Johannes Puckis an Austrian-born American celebrity chef, restaurateur, and occasional actor. Wolfgang Puck restaurants, catering services, cookbooks and licensed products are run by Wolfgang Puck Companies, with three divisions...
NationalityAustrian
ProfessionChef
Date of Birth8 July 1949
CountryAustria
thinking long water
I would say that I mostly use Kosher Salt for seasoning my water and flour. I love sea salt, too. I think both are just fine, as long as it's not iodized salt.
thinking judging competition
I think the most important thing when you are in a competition and you have, let's say, ingredients you have to use make something you did already because none of the judges, you know, probably had it in our lifetime, so I think do something you feel confident with, not something completely new where you are not sure how many hours or how many minutes you have to cook it or if the seasoning is right or if the combinations of spices and herbs are right.
simple thinking trying
I think I generally try to buy the best quality and keep it simple. I don't try to make too many decorations, too many things with it.
thinking important motivated
I think it's really important to keep on staying motivated.
art thinking all-the-best
New Yorkers think they have everything, all the best art and music. But really L.A. is a better place.
thinking want chef
Now everybody thinks that once you do Top Chef, then 13 weeks later you're a chef. Nobody wants to learn to cook anymore.
thinking dinner formal
I think the time of the formal dinners is over.
thinking giving people
I want to give people a basic education, and to help them think for themselves when it comes to food.
five home minutes pool
In L.A. you live in a big city, but you feel like you're in the countryside. For example, I can be at home in the swimming pool and be five minutes from everything.
goes good raise
Restaurants are like having children: it's fun to make them, maybe, but then you have them for good and bad. You are going to have to raise them and if something goes wrong when they are 30 years old, they will still be your little boy.
buy cooking desert good time
If you're cooking for a woman, make a good risotto and a salad. If you don't have time to make desert you can go and buy some macaroons to have afterwards.
few people profession thousands
Acting is a very artistic profession and there are thousands of people out there who think they are actors but there are very few who have real talent.
You know, I never really thought of myself as a 'celebrity.' One of the titles that I like least is 'celebrity chef.'
learned restaurant work
I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes.