What Cooking means to me:A Passion for Perfection

There is no such thing as perfect food, just the idea of it. The purpose of striving towards perfection is to make people happy and that`s what cooking is about. Food pleasures me. I would be satisfied with cooking everyday, year after year. Putting on a white double breasted chef`s jacket and donning a prestigious tall hat with all my pride, tourneing perfectly shaped carrots, peeling vegetables, making flavorful stocks, or fabricating a piece of fish right out of the atlantic ocean-this is a great challenge: to maintain a profound passion for this mundane act and to consistently keep high standards. Having passion for what you do is what it is all about-"It begins when you wake up." Deep gratification is derived from this. Cooking is one of my favorite things in life. Cooking perfection is what I have strived for. I have made it my life, and not just a job. In cooking, you must have a lot of passion. It`s not a question of money or social position; it`s a question of love-A love for food and a love for what you do. Respect for food is a respect for life, for who we are and what we do. Cooking is passion and passion is cooking. Cooking is a technique, a science and an art. Happy cooking!