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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.
- Jacques Torres
#Afraid
#Box
#Lady
#Love
#Ridiculous
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.
- Jacques Torres
#Long
#Me
#Struggle
#Time
#Work
Chocolate cornflakes are a hit. Mixing chocolate with cornflakes to make dollops of candy with that crunch and saltiness just has a magic to it. People watch you do it and think, 'Oh it's so easy,' and then they taste it and say, 'I want to do this.' It's recipes like this that are very successful on TV, because they're so simple.
- Jacques Torres
#Chocolate
#Easy
#Magic
#People
#Simple
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.
- Jacques Torres
#First Time
#Mistakes
#More
#Right
#Time
In 2004, we opened our first store in Manhattan. I installed a big window so people could see me making the chocolates. That store cost $1.8 million. It has a 45-foot-long chocolate counter and a hot chocolate bar made in Louis XVI style because that's when chocolate arrived in Europe.
- Jacques Torres
#Hot
#Me
#People
#Style
#Window
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.
- Jacques Torres
#Know
#Mouth
#Salt
#Television
#Will
You can easily compare chocolate to wine. What makes a good wine is usually a good terroir, a good grape, and the weather has something to do with it. Chocolate is the same, from where the cacao bean grows to what type of tree it grows on.
- Jacques Torres
#Chocolate
#Good
#Tree
#Weather
#Wine
I'm happy to try everything at least once.
- Jacques Torres
#Everything
#Happy
#Least
#Once
#Try
More and more research shows that chocolate is good for you. It's a mood elevator. It contains a lot of antioxidants and will keep us younger. It's good for your heart and acts like aspirin. It keeps your cholesterol low.
- Jacques Torres
#Good
#Heart
#Mood
#Research
#Will
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.
- Jacques Torres
#Doing
#Find
#Lose
#New
#Quality
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.
- Jacques Torres
#First
#Me
#Same
#Shot
#Year
The good thing is, the season of chocolates is during the cold months. During the cold months, I can send ground.
- Jacques Torres
#Cold
#Good
#Ground
#I Can
#Season
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.
- Jacques Torres
#Chef
#Home
#Life
#Restaurant
#Time
I decided on a chocolate business. I love the history of chocolate and making it and the fact that people of any gender, age, and race enjoy it. I found a space in Brooklyn that had not been used in 30 years. Then I talked to an investor who wanted more than 50 percent of the business.
- Jacques Torres
#Age
#Business
#History
#Love
#Space
On TV, I really try to go back to the basics and break down a recipe until it's very easy.
- Jacques Torres
#Back
#Down
#Easy
#Recipe
#Try
In order to succeed, you have to fail, no? You ride a bicycle, you fail; you try a few times, you succeed.
- Jacques Torres
#Bicycle
#Order
#Ride
#Succeed
#Try
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.
- Jacques Torres
#Family
#Good Things
#Good
#Hands
#Money
#Myself
Valentine's Day is the biggest single day of the year, the biggest sale day of the year.
- Jacques Torres
#Day
#Sale
#Single Day
#Single
#Valentine's Day
#Year
Christmas is the biggest holiday in numbers - in terms of gross amounts - because you have one and a half to two months.
- Jacques Torres
#Christmas
#Half
#Holiday
#Numbers
#Two
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.
- Jacques Torres
#Christmas
#Easter
#Grow
#Understand
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