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I have strong feelings about cookbooks because I am a lover of them and student of them and devourer of them and collect them. I find them to be a great source of inspiration. When I was a cook and not making much money, I always used to spend most of what I had on cookbooks.
— Wylie Dufresne
Tags: always, i-am, money, great

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I think it's important for anyone who is artistic to look back on their body of work and be critical. Maybe the Beatles can look back and say everything was perfect, but we've come up with hundreds and hundreds of dishes, and anyone who is honest with themselves has to realize that every single one wasn't an absolute, unequivocal home run.
— Wylie Dufresne
Tags: think, look, home, work
Every dish doesn't have to be showy, and every dish doesn't have to slap you in the face with technique.
— Wylie Dufresne
Tags: every, slap, face, you
When ramps are in season, we pickle a bunch of ramps and fold that into soup. Pickled pearl onions are great chopped up or pureed.
— Wylie Dufresne
Tags: season, up, soup, great
I think I can poach a pretty mean egg the old-fashioned way.
— Wylie Dufresne
Tags: egg, i-can, way, think
It's just about asking why. We as cooks historically have been very, very technically proficient but not technically informed as to why we do what we do. Modernist cuisine is about that knowledge.
— Wylie Dufresne
Tags: about, just, why, knowledge
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