Johnny Iuzzini Quotes

Johnny Iuzzini

Profession : Chef

Birth : August 31, 1974

The true mark of professionalism is the ability to respect everyone else for their styles and always find something positive in every dining experience and highlight it in your thoughts and words.

Johnny Iuzzini

My mom was a rescue veterinarian, and I grew up helping her nurse injured animals back to health. Any deer hit by a car, fox caught in a trap, whatever it was that got hurt, everyone brought them to my mom.

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I didn't come from a wealthy family. My dad told us if we wanted spending money, we had to earn it. So I developed an early work ethic.

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I see myself as half country boy and half city boy, so I need both to balance me out. I couldn't spend all of my time in either place.

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Baking is about multi-tasking. If you are organized and prepared, that's half the battle.

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I have pictures of me feeding deer and possums with baby bottles. I am such an animal lover.

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Every few years, I change my look for the simple reason that I get bored. If you Google Image me, you will see so many different looks: long hair, short hair, clean shaven, beard, etc.

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I fell in love with pastry because I felt I could be much more creative. It's precise, and you don't have to kill anything.

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Cooking is about imbibing different cultures and putting them in a plate on the table.

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I love biscuits. I have a real thing for a biscuits, and if it's not made right, I'm gonna come down hard on somebody.

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I can't even kill a lobster without saying a Hail Mary for it.

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As chefs, especially pastry chefs, your creativity plays such an important part in your daily work. We truly do have a blank canvas to work with every time we create a new dish.

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I'm very much half city and half country boy.

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I eat to survive, you know?

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I am a sugar freak.

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The biggest fear in my life is being mediocre.

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Both my parents worked. So it wasn't like the previous generation where we learned how to cook and bake from our mothers and grandmothers.

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My dad said, 'If you want to go out with girls and go out with your friends, get a job.' I found one at the local country club as a pot washer in the kitchen.

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At one point, in one of the kitchens where I worked, I was the only American pastry cook. They treated me poorly. 'You're stupid. You're American. You don't get it.' They'd speak French all day. At one point, my boss said to me, 'You learn French or get out right away.'

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Desserts are last, but don't let them be least.

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