Tom Douglas Quotes
I'll never understand those greasy little deep-fried wings most bars serve.
Douglas, Tom. Tom's Big Dinners: Big-Time Home Cooking for Family and Friends. William Morrow Cookbooks, 2003.
This was the first hamburger chain in America. Prior to that hamburgers were associated with greasy, unclean restaurants. Ingram stressed cleanliness and sanitation. Staff were all dressed in white and not even allowed to wear a wristwatch, cleaning was constant. Each facility was painted white on the inside and outside so that the least speck of dirt or grease would be visible. Even the outside was washed every day. He demonstrated that a restaurant could be clean and a new standard for consumers and public health was set in America. Ironically almost a hundred years later the health of hamburgers themselves would be brought into question, but for the cleanliness issue which by then had become standard in most states and communities, but for the cholesterol content of the meat.
Tom Douglas is an American executive chef, restaurateur, author, and radio talk show host. He is known for winning the 1994 James Beard Award for Best Northwest Chef. In 2012 he also won the James Beard Award as Best Restaurateur. He is the author of Tom Douglas' Seattle Kitchen, which was named the Best American Cookbook by the James Beard Foundation and KitchenAid, in 2001. In 2005, he appeared on an episode of the Food Network's Iron Chef America, in which he defeated Chef Masaharu Morimoto .
