Jacques Torres Quotes

Dad was a baker, and we lived above the bakery, so I was always popping down to have an apple pie or a doughnut or a custard or gypsy tart: I had a very sweet tooth, and I think that that was what got me into doing what I do now.

Once you have a chocolate-chip cookie with whole-wheat flour, you never go back.

When I was about to graduate, I asked myself, 'What could you do every day and never get sick of?' My answer was really simple: Make cookies.

I'm not a good cook, unfortunately. I've tried a few times, but I don't like it too much.

I've never made a meal that I wasn't able to eat, but it that doesn't mean anyone else would ever eat it, haha!

The best way to learn to cook is to do some serious eating.

I will never get tired of making chocolate chip cookies. Never.

June Cleaver didn't keep her house in perfect order, the prop man did it.

If we want our bodies to be healthier, we need to get off the salmonella, e-coli, mad cow, assembly-line toxic hell train! God I love that statement. What did I just say?

I love to bake, especially cupcakes. I'm really good at it.

If you're craving oatmeal cookies, apple sauce won't do.

Pie can't compete with cake. Put candles in a cake, it's a birthday cake. Put candles in a pie, someone's drunk in the kitchen.

Hours is an understatement. I honestly don't know how the director and editor decide each week what actually makes it on the air. There's of course director and cast commentary on each episode on the DVD. We had a blast recording that.

There's an oatmeal cookie in there. I see no reason for the existence of oatmeal, particularly in cookies.

The first year was like icing. Then the cake started to show through.

As long as you're in the food business, why not make sweets?

The trans fat label has been an enormous incentive for food companies to take trans fat out of their products.

You don't get tired of muffins, but you don't find inspiration in them.

Doing this movie [Fast Food Nation] made me realize that our bodies are digesting things that it's not meant to digest. It's pretty bad for you. The cast is [now] very, very aware of where we get our food and what we put in our bodies.

Well, but you can eat Grandma's cookies. They're not bad for you. They were made by Grandma. Grandma wouldn't hurt you.

Where there's cake, there's hope. And there's always cake.

There's a classic story I tell about when I did the Man Show about the retarded conversations that you have with the executive producers and the network.

Almost everything that I behold in this wonderful country bears traces of improvement and reform - everything except Pie.

Generally I try to be on set as much as possible, especially during the early part of a season. I read all of the outlines and scripts and look at the auditions and the cuts for my other shows and give notes on all of that. There's a lot to do, but I enjoy nothing more than being on set because that's where the magic happens.

American Danish can be doughy, heavy, sticky, tasting of prunes and is usually wrapped in cellophane. Danish Danish is light, crisp, buttery and often tastes of marzipan or raisins; it is seldom wrapped in anything but loving care.