Stories--from the literature of our culture to descriptions of our days to the lunatic's ravings--appear to be hardwired into us. Even in sleep we te…

- Michael Ruhlman

We better take care of the earth or we're gonna have shitty food, and having shitty food is no fun.

- Michael Ruhlman

A kitchen is a good place to be, almost always the best place in the house.

- Michael Ruhlman

Recipes are not assembly manuals. Recipes are guides and suggestions for a process that is infinitely nuanced. Recipes are sheet music.

- Michael Ruhlman

People, you have six senses! The last one is common! Use it!

- Michael Ruhlman

If you could choose to master a single ingredient, no choice would teach you more about cooking than the egg. It is an end in itself; it's a multipur…

- Michael Ruhlman

Only when a chef changed the way you saw the world, through cooking, did food truly become art, and that was rare indeed.

- Michael Ruhlman

I love this book! There are very few cookbooks published today that add something truly new and distinctive to the literature of food and cooking. Je…

- Michael Ruhlman

I believe it's a cook's moral obligation to add more butter given the chance.

- Michael Ruhlman