Charlie Trotter
Charlie Trotter
Charles "Charlie" Trotterwas an American chef and restaurateur...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionChef
Date of Birth8 September 1959
CityWilmette, IL
CountryUnited States of America
nice bags soup
Always make stock in a large quantity and freeze it in plastic bags. That way, when you want to make a nice soup or boil veggies, you can simply pull the bag out of the freezer.
reading book okay
What I was reading was already part of my psyche, but finally someone else was saying it's okay to walk alone.
art school college
I wasnt using college as a stepping stone to law school or some other career. I just wanted a liberal-arts education.
parent laissez-faire ultimate
My parents couldnt be looser. It was the ultimate laissez faire upbringing.
excellence kind perfectionist
I never considered Miles Davis a perfectionist; I always considered him as an excellence-ist, where deviation is actually kind of cool.
wine white people
My fantasy is to have a restaurant where there are no written menus, but where you just ask people, What are you in the mood for? Fish? Meat? White wine?
brother philosophy needs
If you want the meaning of families and life and religion and philosophy rolled into one package, all you need to read is The Brothers Karamazov.
philosophy heart generosity
Fernand Point's philosophy instilled what cuisine is all about: generosity and hugeness of heart.
art cooking intimate
The art of cooking is among the most intimate things that we can do for another.
mean get-money making-money
I’m all about making money. It’s the greatest thing, because it means you get money to spend.
thinking guarantees-that opposites
Well, I kind of think that the opposite is true. The customer is rarely right. And that is why you must seize the control of the circumstance and dominate every last detail: to guarantee that they're going to have a far better time than they ever would have had if they tried to control it themselves.
critical willing
You have to be critical of what you do every day, to analyze it and be willing to push it further.
crazy sleep night
I have always looked at it this way: If you strive like crazy for perfection - an all-out assault on total perfection - at the very least you will hit a high level of excellence, and then you might be able to sleep at night. To accomplish something truly significant, excellence has to become a life plan.
food together cuisine
A jazz musician can improvise based on his knowledge of music. He understands how things go together. For a chef, once you have that basis, that's when cuisine is truly exciting.