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
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I wasn't using college as a stepping stone to law school or some other career. I just wanted a liberal-arts education.
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Life's too short. You may be on this planet for 80 years at best or who knows, but you can't just pedal around and do the same thing forever.
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The most successful food, I think, is food that both appeals to the super-sophisticated diner or foodie and to the lay diner at the same time.
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As tough as I've been on anybody, as hard as I've ever been on anybody, I have been harder on myself. By far.
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To me, searching for perfection isn't anywhere near as interesting as trying to find your own voice.
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If you ever want to get anywhere in life, you're going to have to push it, and somebody's going to push you to get there. End of story.
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In my case, vertical food was less about standing things up than layering things: more an attempt to gain texture by weaving things together.
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You can't be afraid to not have everything figured out. There's too much pressure on young people today to have it all figured out when they're in college.
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I timed my previous wife's pregnancy to the moment to have my son born on Bob Dylan's 50th birthday. There is no bigger Bob Dylan fan than me. You don't just time the day and impregnate your wife to get your kid to be born on Bob Dylan's 50th birthday.
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I took the obligatory economics classes in school, but I've long been a fan of the Milton Friedman philosophy and its libertarian bent: One must be free to do what one wants to do, as long as you don't harm another. This is the seminal treatise on free-market economics.
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When I graduated I wasn't sure what I wanted to do, but I knew I didn't want a conventional career.
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For over 20 years, I have been saying that Chicago is by far one of the greatest food cities in the world.