Cooking is not a craft to get into for money. The money may come, or it may not. But you must get into it for the craft and the culture.
Interpretation
Cooking should be pursued for passion and culture rather than for financial gain.
In this quote, Roy Choi emphasizes that the essence of cooking lies in the appreciation of the art and culture surrounding it, rather than the potential for monetary reward. It suggests that true fulfillment in cooking comes from the creativity and traditions involved, which enrich the experience far beyond any financial incentives.
In practice
This quote can be shared during a cooking class to inspire students about the importance of passion in culinary arts.
I realized why I can cook for different environments. Because of everything I've gone through growing up. Why can I cook for a Hollywood event without blinking an eye? Because I cooked at the Beverly Hilton and because I moved to Villa Park. Why can I cook for kids on Hollywood Boulevard at night? Because I went through it.
Clothing is . . . an exercise in memory. It makes me explore the past: how did I feel when I wore that. They are like signposts in the search for the past.
Now I really make the little idea from clay, and I hold it in my hand. I can turn it, look at it from underneath, see it from one view, hold it against the sky, imagine it any size I like, and really be in control almost like God creating something.
Picasso had a saying - 'good artists copy, great artists steal' - and we have always been shameless about stealing great ideas.
As in creating some significant work the artist first experiences something akin to dream awareness that becomes clarified in the creative process itself, so we must first have a vision of the future sufficiently entrancing that it will sustain us in the transformation of the human project that is now in process.
In other words, the unique value of the "authentic" work of art has its basis in ritual, the location of its original use value. This ritualistic basis, however remote, is still recognizable as secularized ritual even in the most profane forms of the cult of beauty.
Well, what's interesting, I try not to think about the radio when I'm writing a song. I want people to love the song, and that means it might not be exactly thinking about the radio, but it's thinking about your audience and saying, 'I want people to like this song after it's done.'
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