Geoffrey Zakarian Quotes

In certain European cuisines, vegetables are cooked a long time. I take the term 'al dente' and use it for vegetables.

Things are politics for a long time before they become history.

When you're going to pass legislation that will cover 300 [million] American people in different ways it takes a long time to do the necessary administrative steps that have to be taken to put the legislation together to control the people.

Forty-eight hours is a long time in politics

History always has a few tricks up its frayed sleeve. It's been around a long time.

We must look a long time before we can see.

It seems to me that women have made an awful lot of progress, but they probably remain underrepresented at the highest levels of most organizations, for a variety of reasons. And it's probably going to take a long time to change that.

It takes a long time to get good at something, so it's important to begin as early as possible so that we can improve and begin to see the compounding benefits of the work over time.

The fact that my songs take a long time to write is no guarantee of their excellence.

We don't yet call it 'Thxgvng,' because any holiday whose centerpiece sits in an oven for four to six hours, after having sat out for as long to reach room temperature, must be spelled all the way out. Cook a turkey. You'll see. This is to say that you're not just roasting a turkey, obviously.

Repeatedly opening the oven - or worse, taking out the turkey to baste it - slows down the momentum of cooking.

People are stubborn about what they perceive to be the right thing or the wrong thing, and it takes a long time to filter this human condition. There's a waiting period until people catch up. But if you have patience - which it takes when someone thinks differently from you - everybody always catches up. That patience is a wonderful virtue.

Cooking is about the ingredients and responding, but risotto, specifically, is about the technique.

Be aware of what you cook tomatoes with. The high acid content of the tomato slows down the cooking process of some other foods. Dried beans cooked with tomatoes added to the pot can take up to 20 percent more cooking time than beans without tomatoes added.

Seven years is a long time, and seven years of fighting the best guys in the best organization in the world, the biggest organization in the world, it hardens you. You don't stay seven years without evolving. It doesn't happen.

Stock is everything in cooking, at least in French cooking. Without it, nothing can be done. If one's stock is good, what remains of the work is easy; if, on the other hand, it is bad or merely mediocre, it is quite hopeless to expect anything approaching a satisfactory result.

I use vinegars to deglaze saute pans for sublime sauces.

Eight minutes is a long time in basketball.

There's something about being around a long time that puts stuff in perspective.

I've been a fan of ketchup for as long as I can remember, and the thick, rich flavor of Hunt's ketchup delivers every time.

I do make a really great bolognese, and the key is putting good 'ol wine in there.

I don't have to prove myself to anyone. People know what I'm capable of. I've spent a long time in this game.

One bit of advice I can give people is to remember that anything worthwhile takes a long time.

I'll get home from work on Friday night and take out some beans and soak them. The next morning, I'll put them in a pot for soup, then just keep chopping, chopping, chopping - carrots and celery and cabbage - and in two or three hours, you have this wonderful, mellow soup that fills up the whole house with its aroma.

Seventeen years is a long time to be playing this game. It's two careers for a lot of people.