April Bloomfield quotes

“Food's delicate. You have to handle it with finesse. You can't just be a big ogre.”
-- April Bloomfield

Source : "Burger Queen" by Lauren Collins, www.newyorker.com. November 22, 2010.

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“I'm not the type of person to eat big hunks of meat. I think people are starting to realize that great things come in small batches.”
-- April Bloomfield

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“Always look for the best ingredients, treat the food you cook with respect, always read the entire recipe first, be organized, and have fun.”
-- April Bloomfield

Source : "The Spotted Pig's April Bloomfield". Interview with Lauren Salkeld, www.epicurious.com.

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“If you work hard and you learn and you absorb and you pay attention, career in food is great. This job can take you all around the world. You can eat the most delicious food. It allows you to be creative.... [And] don't ever quit. It's going to pay off eventually. It might not be in a year. Might be 20 years or 10 years. But you have to keep pushing. Just have that fire, have the passion, and want to be successful. And don't listen to anybody else.”
-- April Bloomfield

Source : Source: www.glamour.com

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“I don't think of being a woman in an industry of men. I didn't walk into the kitchen and go, 'Ooh, I'm a girl!' I didn't get into my chosen profession. I wanted to be good at something.”
-- April Bloomfield

Source : "Burger Queen". Interview with Lauren Collins, www.newyorker.com. November 22, 2010.

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“I became a manager very young. My first sous chef job I was, maybe, 25. It was a bit too early for me. But it's on-the-job training. You really just get stuck in there and it's trial and error. You learn by your mistakes, and hopefully you don't keep making them. And if you do, you just keep trying to fix it.”
-- April Bloomfield

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“I love to roast vegetables - carrots, fennel, and so on. I also love to mash or puree pretty much any vegetable!”
-- April Bloomfield

Source : "The Spotted Pig's April Bloomfield". Interview with Lauren Salkeld, www.epicurious.com.

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“I adore pigs, and I love eating them and cooking them, and I love using the whole animal.”
-- April Bloomfield

Source : "This Chef Loves Her 'Pig,' From Nose To Tail". "Morning Edition" with Linda Wertheimer, www.npr.org. June 29, 2012.

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“The best way to learn to cook is to do some serious eating.”

“As a chef I’m not your dietitian or your ethicist, I’m in the pleasure business.”

“If you have a good experience in a restaurant, you tell 2 people. If you have a bad experience, you tell 10 people.”

“To live means to finesse the processes to which one is subjugated.”

“People seek methods of learning to know God. Is it not much shorter and more direct to simply do everything for the love of Him? There is no finesse about it. One only has to do it generously and simply.”

“Digital has obviously changed things a lot, but not all for the better as far as I'm concerned. Of course it's much more convenient and you're getting instant results, but to me it just lacks the finesse of a roll of film and it has a slightly superimposed feel.”

“To read of a detective's daring finesse or ingenious stratagem is a rare joy.”

“I realized that even big waves start with small ripples”

Source : Adam Braun (2015). “The Promise of a Pencil: How an Ordinary Person Can Create Extraordinary Change”, p.36, Simon and Schuster

“For me, it’s not about breaking big in Hollywood, but having interesting experiences.”

“Pantomime is a big thing in the cultural calendar of my country, you know. So subtlety's not my forte.”