I tell people all the time, you have to be in love with that pot. You have to put all your love in that pot. If you’re in a hurry, just eat your sandwich and go. Don’t even start cooking, because you can’t do anything well in a hurry. I love food. I love serving people. I love satisfying people.
ATTRIBUTION:
Leah Chase (b. 1923), U.S. chef. As quoted in I Dream a World, by Brian Lanker (1989).
Chase was a “master chef in the Creole tradition” in New Orleans.
