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“In the old days, I would have said Mérida, but not anymore. I would still say — I like Puebla today.”
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“In the old days, I would have said Mérida, but not anymore. I would still say — I like Puebla today.”
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01 / recommendation
“In the old days, I would have said Mérida, but not anymore. I would still say — I like Puebla today.”
02 / recommendation
“I would still say the three regions; I like Puebla.”
03 / belief
“Consumers are defining brands, and how brands get used. I think that the idea of brand is probably — you’re an economist — dated.”
04 / uncertainty
“Now, if you go around the United States 25 years later, you don’t find that anymore. I don’t know if I answered the question.”
05 / belief
“The other thing that happened was I realized that Seoul had moved in terms of its transformation of plasticity and creativity.”
06 / belief
“I think because the context of using the body and perceptual space remains the same.”
07 / belief
“Lobster for sure. I would say my second one would be, oh boy. Something spicy. I vie between Thai and Mexican as my two favorite spicy cuisines in the world.”
08 / observation
“The point is that mulatos, when you hold them up to the light, like this, see it’s more purple and more reddish .”
09 / belief
“Men: I believe that if we go too far, that we’re not going to learn how to make moles, that we’re not concerned with other black bean soups.”
10 / belief
“I think that the French themselves are, again, like the Japanese — they’re trying to reinvent themselves, but they don’t want to let go.”
11 / belief
“I think the Michelin guide is about status, reification of a belief system in a particular food and culture system that was based on the aristocracy.”
12 / belief
“I think Hungary — I’ve been going to Budapest. I would say right now Budapest is on fire.”
13 / belief
“I think every big food chain is probably going to face this gestalt of where, if you’re cooking, you can’t be a chain.”
14 / belief
“The problem was Korea was always in Japan’s shadow, and they were basically beaten down and defensive. I think right now, they’re not.”
15 / preference
“I would say my shore dinner, which is lobster, clams — they’re all the one meal.”
16 / preference
“I have a very sensitive palate. I won’t eat any hot soups or teas. I always eat cold when I can get it.”
17 / evaluation
“I think Puebla is underrated. I like the mole verdes in the morning, and the mole amarillos.”
18 / prediction
“I think because of what’s happening in the United States about “natural,” I think that once people put their palates and really queue them up, and they can tell the difference in varieties, is when we’re going to get much more varietal sort of differentiation in the market.”
19 / evaluation
“A sous-vide piece of lamb that’s pink all the way through, with one texture, with no Maillarding, and no flavor of the lamb developed, because it never went high enough — it actually wouldn’t be lamb-y enough, and it will taste like a lamb piece of bubblegum or a sponge.”
20 / prediction
“Yet today it’s Samsung — I mean not given the last one that came out! But, basically, I think the Koreans are forced out of their comfort zone, because they have North Korea at their border.”
21 / observation
“What’s happening now is, even though they have this great tradition of cooking, the workforce is either coming straight from the countryside without being trained — the restaurants are making a lot of money because the people who are going there don’t have trained palates, and so they just open up and be better.”
22 / preference
“I prefer poblanos, which I think are richer, and the poblano, as you know, is the predecessor.”
23 / evaluation
“I think that our model in the United States because of the real estate and economics of it is completely wrong.”
24 / preference
“I always think that those cuisines that are older, if they have great weavings, they have great cuisine. Because I always say you’re looking at one mentality.”