A conversation with chef Thomas Keller

with Thomas Keller
in Lifestyle, Food
on Wednesday, March 26, 2008 * * * * *

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A conversation with Thomas Keller, chef and owner of Per Se & French Laundry.

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    1. Rockstarbabu  10/06/2009 07:52 AM Report

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    2. Mike  04/04/2008 12:54 PM Report

      After meals this Fall at both The French Laundry and Bouchon, I've also started a blog about my journey through the Bouchon cookbook. It's pretty new, but you can catch it here:

      http://cookingbouchon.blogspot.com

    3. jeng  03/31/2008 11:13 PM Report

      I too found Charlie's "constant ask-a-question-and-interrupt-the-answer" style quite trying. Good questions most of the time, but les hear the answers, Charlie! would be god to let the guests do more if not most of the talking!

    4. Rob  03/31/2008 09:03 PM Report

      I loved hearing from Thomas Keller. However, I found Charlie's constant ask-a-question-and-interrupt-the-answer technique absolutely distracting. I want to hear Keller's answers, Charlie! Listen more, speak less, for God's sake!

    5. Rob  03/31/2008 09:03 PM Report

      I loved hearing from Thomas Keller. However, I found Charlie's constant ask-a-question-and-interrupt-the-answer technique absolutely distracting. I want to hear Keller's answers, Charlie! Listen more, speak less, for God's sake!

    6. Lindsey  03/31/2008 06:05 PM Report

      This was a great interview and I look forward to learning more about Mr. Keller. Does he know that there is a blogger cooking all the recipes in his French Laundry Cookbook? It's a funny site, and it shows you how some of this food is attainable at home, and others maybe not. It's called carolcookskeller.blogspot.com (I think; you may want to google it) and it's pretty good.

    7. Mr. Old Sixth  03/31/2008 09:28 AM Report

      Motherlodebeth: HAHAHAHA. Getting out of the French Laundry for $100/person is the joke. I've eaten at his other establishments and they have been wonderful. I think it is a pretty well-known fact that Keller is a HUGE fan of In-and-Out Burger. A year ago or so,in Food & Wine, he was featured in a picture sitting at a booth in In and Out Burger.

    8. Frank  03/30/2008 11:07 PM Report

      MotherLodeBeth, So you went to one fancy shmancy restaurant and didn't like it so now all of them are bad? No, I'm sorry, but fine cooking is fine knowledge. Ive cooked in many places and 'just learning how to cook' is worlds away from what these guys do in a kitchen . Its an art form.

    9. steve  03/30/2008 10:10 PM Report

      @MotherLodeBeth please refrain from posting in this forum when you obviously have no f'n clue.

    10. Grete Wilkinson  03/30/2008 09:29 PM Report

      I enjoy Charlie Rose's show. I get to know people I would otherwise not have heard of. In the interview with thomas Keller he mentioned a book that was required reading for the staff in his restaurants, written by a French chef in the fifties. Could you let me have the author and the title of that book, please.

    11. Grete Wilkinson  03/30/2008 09:29 PM Report

      I enjoy Charlie Rose's show. I get to know people I would otherwise not have heard of. In the interview with thomas Keller he mentioned a book that was required reading for the staff in his restaurants, written by a French chef in the fifties. Could you let me have the author and the title of that book, please.

    12. PC  03/28/2008 11:02 AM Report

      Hahaha, this is easily one of the most ignorant posts I've ever read. It must be a joke, right?

    13. MotherLodeBeth  03/27/2008 11:15 PM Report

      What with all the snob food stuff? The French Laundry is up north of me and I know they have a waiting list. But it seems to me, coming from a home where we hunt fish, have a vegetable garden, hens for eggs etc., that some people simply need to learn how to cook and not spend $100 per person to get a meal that can be made for a fourth or less. Thank God Julia Child loved In and Out Burgers here in California.

      Worst venison I ever had was at an expensive eatery. Maybe had they done the hunting and realized what goes into actually getting a deer they wouldn't have messed the meal up with sauces squiggled all over the plate and a piece of meat that had so much 'pretty' muck on it.

    14. Kit Mauldin  03/27/2008 06:18 PM Report

      ...Or you all could wait until June 2008 when it will be reprinted and thus easily acquired through your local bookseller!

    15. Julie K.  03/27/2008 04:35 PM Report

      If you are interested in buying "Ma Gastronomie" you could go online to oldcookbooks.com and pre-order the book or check with Bonnieslotnickcookbooks.com. Bonnie has a store in Greenwich Village, NYC. Hope that helps.

      Julie K.

    16. jaycel adkins  03/27/2008 04:35 PM Report

      http://www.amazon.com/Ma-Gastronomie-Fernand-Point/dp/0895080257

      This is the book.

    17. Donna E.  03/27/2008 03:23 PM Report

      I had the same question as in the two comments posted before me. After some web searching, I found the following information:

      The name of the French Chef mentioned by Mr. Keller is "Fernand Point" and the name of his book is "Ma Gastronomie". The book is out-of-print and Amazon.com shows it as "Currently Unavailable". Perhaps a copy can be obtained through other used-book vendors.

    18. claudia from cookeat FRET  03/27/2008 03:09 PM Report

      ferdinand points

      chef from la pyramide

      the book is entitled 'ma gastronomie'

      enjoy

      claudia

      www.cookeatFRET.com

    19. Deborah G.  03/27/2008 12:18 PM Report

      My husband watched the interview with Chef Keller on 3/26/08 and would like to purchase the book he referenced but we need the name and/or the author of the book. Please send that information. Thank you.

    20. Robert Bleibtrey  03/27/2008 11:32 AM Report

      I wasn't able to get the name of the Chef or the book Chef Keller referenced in the interveiw on 3/26/08 is that something that I can get from you??

      Thank you for your time

      Robert Bleibtrey