Quotes from Alexandra Guarnaschelli

For me no good food is illuminated without acidity.

It's amazing the relationships you forge in a kitchen. When you cooperate in an environment that's hot. Where there's a lot of knives. You're trusting your well-being with someone you've never before met or known.

I think we love bacon because it has all the qualities of an amazing sensory experience. When we cook it, the sizzling sound is so appetizing, the aroma is maddening, the crunch of the texture is so gratifying and the taste delivers every time.

I woke up on May 15 1991, the day of my Barnard graduation, and I said to myself, 'By the end of today you will decide what you want to do with the rest of your life.'

If you want to have a relationship, at some point you have to let yourself get caught. That's what I did. I got caught.

If you want to have a relationship, at some point you have to let yourself get caught. That's what I did. I got caught.

I woke up on May 15, 1991, the day of my Barnard graduation, and I said to myself, 'By the end of today you will decide what you want to do with the rest of your life.'

Winter blues are cured every time with a potato gratin paired with a roast chicken.

Give yourself enough time to really learn how to cook.

My father always said, 'If you love what you do, you won't mind slogging through it for several hours a day.

The better the ingredients, the more farmers I can buy from, the closer I feel to the food I want to make that represents what I care about as a chef.