Fergus McCullough: belief

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…They pursue perfection, and in a way achieve it. If you don’t agree with all matters of taste, pursuing perfection, in a sense, can be a negative. If you look at these Filipino desserts, which for me are too sweet, they’re too gooey, they’re too large, too many different things piled on top of each other, but they’re quite popular. There are people who love them. I don’t think they’re wrong to love them. Japan just takes every direction you can imagine and perfects it. That’s a little dangerous. I won’t eat raw chicken in Japan, speaking of things that I don’t eat. To me, I don’t know that I’m afraid. I trust that it’s safe. I just think it would disgust me, and that’s irrational, but there I am. And what else I can get is so good. Nominations from this side of the room? I’ve only been to China once, so I think I’d love to go back. I was in Chongqing. I think for all the reasons you’ve just mentioned. There’s an endless amount of things to discover, and seems to mind there. Well, I’ve never been to China, so that’s the obvious answer. [laughter]…

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