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The French Laundry Experience with Anthony bourdain

 
February 4, 2010
 

The French Laundry Experience with Anthony Bourdain. Do we lead by example?

A food buzz of unparalleled proportion.  Foodies!  Brace yourselves, you’re in for a real treat, something enormously entertaining, that is why we chose to feature, The French Laundry video with Anthony Bourdain.  Each of us is barreling down our own little road, working hard to establish our very own ‘je ne sais quoi’.   The French Laundry journey draws us in like a rip tide, allowing us to briefly kvell over its shoulder, exposing its uniqueness.  

Chef Keller, is like a huge big black hand that pushes you off the edge of a cliff, forcing you to spread your arms like wings and fly like a bird!  If you’re like me and can’t draw breath without learning something new, then you will enjoy the high standards he deploys.   

Per Se is the urban interpretation of The French Laundry set in the center of Manhattan.   

“When you acknowledge as you must, that there is no such thing as perfect food, only the idea of it, then the real purpose of striving toward perfection becomes clear; to make people happy.  that’s what cooking is all about.”   Thomas Keller

Per Se Philosophy
“In the end, a great meal is not about the food and the wine. A great meal is an emotional experience.  We try to make it an extraordinary one by creating a beautiful place, one filled with staff who cares about it as they do about their home, and care for you as the most important guest in it.  Our chefs are obsessive about the culinary details and fundamental techniques that are the foundation of an exciting culinary imagination and a kitchen that delivers the very best products of the earth to the table.  No detail or element can be less important or more important than another.  Because a great meal is not one that fills you up.  A great meal is a kind of journey that returns you to sources of pleasure you may have forgotten and takes you to places you haven’t been before.” 

Per Se Staff
“The staff is the foundation of what this restaurant was, what this restaurants is, and what it will become.  “Staff,” though, doesn’t begin to describe the diversity, talent and commitment of the women and men who make this restaurant work every day.  They are the people I turn to for collaboration when we’re establishing new policies or new standards, or creating new dishes.  They’re the standard bearers.”

What was the purpose of this blog?  To show by example what high standards can accomplish.   This doesn’t mean we all have to own a French Laundry or a Per Se, not in the least.  What we need to take ownership of,  is the example we set for others?  Do we lead by example?  Our blog helps individuals to serve ANYONE by setting a good example.  That means guests, family, friends, even your cat!

Share your comments with us, we can’t wait!
Gabriella

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