“Repeatedly opening the oven - or worse, taking out the turkey to baste...” — Alex Guarnaschelli Quote

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

“I think no one would dispute that 'Chopped' is a highly athletic television show.”

“The hardest thing about being a full time chef is leaving my work behind when I go home at night. I'll toss and turn about a menu item or forget to order produce and wake up at 4 A.M. in a cold sweat over some artichokes.”

“Success requires first expending ten units of effort to produce one unit of results. Your momentum will then produce ten units of results with each unit of effort.”

“I think of workshopping as a way to read your own work through the eyes of others - a scene that you write gets refracted by those around you, and suddenly you have several different readings of it, each with a different momentum for how it might be retooled or reshaped.”

“You can't take momentum and how you played from a win and think you just carry it over to the next game, and you can't take a loss and how you felt after and think that you can just transfer that and that's going to help you play better.”