Words matter. These are the best Jacques Torres Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
If you buy chocolate with too high of a cocoa content, you might not like it because it doesn’t have enough sugar.
Pierre Franey’s producer wanted to do a show with me. This was around 1998, and I think we shot our first PBS show that same year.
By planting more, we find new hybrid of cocoa, and by doing that, we lose some quality. So the price of the very high-end chocolates rises even more.
It take me one year to lose all that weight. Look, it takes a long time to put it in; it takes a long time to take it off. It’s a struggle in the beginning, and then you get used to it. I work also with a nutritionist, and she helped me. She became a friend.
I have spent more time in my life working and being in restaurants than being at home. I immediately feel comfortable entering a restaurant, and I feel even more comfortable in the back with the chef and cooks.
In order to succeed, you have to fail, no? You ride a bicycle, you fail; you try a few times, you succeed.
The first time I baked, I failed a couple of times, and I made some mistakes and perhaps ended up with something inedible. Then I was a little bit more careful, and I learned how to do it right.
I still make mistakes today – I always explain to people, when you will make as many mistakes as I did, then you will know as much as I know in my profession.
I like music that is upbeat, such as Lady Gaga and Bruno Mars. Or anything disco – I will listen to that, too.
On TV, I really try to go back to the basics and break down a recipe until it’s very easy.
My goal is to teach what chocolate is. I don’t think my customers understand what it takes to make chocolates.
I believe history and tradition is something solid and something we can rest on. I am not crazy about putting new spices in chocolate.
Valentine’s Day is the biggest single day of the year, the biggest sale day of the year.
We eat raw dough. We eat raw cookie. We eat massive buttercream in cakes that are still warm. We eat salt. We have to taste things that you will not put in your mouth. But you know what? That’s television. You have to do it.
I come from a family of craftsmen. We like to make things with our hands. Better than the pleasure of making money is the pleasure of making the product and saying, ‘Wow. I did that.’ I couldn’t see myself doing anything other than making good things to eat.
I started cooking around 9 years old. I would make crepes at home for my parents. By 15 years old, I had started my apprenticeship at a bakery.
I’m happy to try everything at least once.
The good thing is, the season of chocolates is during the cold months. During the cold months, I can send ground.
Christmas is the biggest holiday in numbers – in terms of gross amounts – because you have one and a half to two months.
I understand Christmas, and I understand Easter. But Halloween is one of those things where, if you don’t grow with it? The French, they tried Halloween for a few years, and I think they’re dropping it.
I used to like Lady Gaga. I still love her. But what I like about LMFAO is that they’re completely outside of the box; they’re completely different. They’re not ridiculous, but they are not afraid of it. And also, it’s a certain type of artistry.
I make my own chocolate, I grow my own beans, and now I have something about the history of chocolate. I feel I try to go as far as I can into this profession.
