Chef's Table S 1: Ep 2

"John Gold wrote a review that defined who we were before we even knew it ourselves"

"Farm to table is an old way of eating."

We're a nation of immigrants, and when we first came here we had abundance like no one had ever seen.

Great cuisine comes out of hardship, they were all forced into a negotiation between peasants  and their environment. That's a real tragedy. You have the recipe for what is American cuisine today, because everything grew in abundance. 

"Not great ingredients in large abundance."

"Every chef I know that’s successful has had moments of just really intense failure.”