Quotes by Antoni Porowski - Page 2

Salt is so, so, so important. If that's the one thing everyone remembers, every step of the way, whenever I cook, I try to incorporate salt.
Antoni Porowski /
Every Step
Salt
Incorporate
Remembers
The One Thing
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My father is Polish, and at 68, he still wears a Speedo to the beach, and he wears regular briefs - so did his father. That was my upbringing.
Antoni Porowski /
Beach
Upbringing
Wears
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Some people want to define themselves, and they should, as it's part of their identity. For me personally, I've never really had a label for myself.
Antoni Porowski /
Myself Me People
Define
Label
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Food not only connects us at the idyllic dinner table setting with family and friends: it is also part of our mundane, daily transit to and from work.
Antoni Porowski /
Dinner Table
Family And Friends
Idyllic
Mundane
Setting
Family Work Food
Transit
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I'm definitely more of an extreme eater. I'm decadent on weekends and try to go plant-based during the week with a bit of fish - pescatarian thrown in.
Antoni Porowski /
Thrown
Extreme
Eater
Decadent
Weekends
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I get really manic on set, and then to just get myself to a place where I'm alone in my apartment again, it's like this recalibrating thing that happens.
Antoni Porowski /
Manic
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I could not be more thrilled to be writing about the recipes I love and think are essential to any novice home cook, professional, and somewhere in between.
Antoni Porowski /
Novice
Thrilled
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Since puberty, I've always known there was a possibility of me being with a man. It wasn't anything I felt the need to explore until the time came to explore it.
Antoni Porowski /
Possibility
Puberty
Time Man Me
Time Man Always
Explore
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A cheese dip is good - it's for when you're like, 'You know what, I've had a long day. I'm just gonna eat a big bowl of cheese, and I'm not gonna care about it.'
Antoni Porowski /
Cheese
Dip
Long Day
Good Long Day
Bowl
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Montreal is just so multicultural and ethnic and diverse, and it's what makes us special. I say 'us' like I still live there, but I still do feel like a Montrealer.
Antoni Porowski /
Diverse
Montreal
Multicultural
Special
Ethnic
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I usually like loud T-shirts and band shirts, so I just try to keep it as simple as possible with jeans and white kicks that are worn in and, like, a simple jacket.
Antoni Porowski /
Jeans
Loud
Shirts
Worn
Jacket
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My kitchen is limited at best. I have one drawer. But I make do with what I have; it's taught me to be super efficient in terms of how I clean and how I put things away.
Antoni Porowski /
Efficient
Drawer
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I think the purpose of veganism is an appreciation for plants and veggies and fruit and to just eating cleaner... If you're going to go vegan, then really learn how to be.
Antoni Porowski /
Appreciation
Eating
Purpose
Cleaner
Plants
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Montreal bagels are much better than U.S. bagels, because there's a sweetness to the dough, and there's a pull. New York bagels are basically bread in the shape of a bagel.
Antoni Porowski /
Bread
Dough
Montreal
Sweetness
Basically
Pull
Shape
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I have experience more on the front-of-house side of things, but I've always had a strong reverence and a respect for chefs... they've always been sort of like my rock stars.
Antoni Porowski /
Reverence
Stars
Chefs
Rock Stars
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I love a little darkness at the table with just enough light from IKEA white candlesticks. Seriously! They look elegant but are simple and unscented and create mood lighting.
Antoni Porowski /
Elegant
Lighting
Mood
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There should be no rules at your dinner party except for people to eat a lot and enjoy a long night where they feel like they could fall asleep at the dinner table at the end.
Antoni Porowski /
Dinner Party
Asleep
No Rules
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It's important to go into the grocery store with a plan and a list. But it's a skeleton - you need to know how to deviate from it and adapt it to what ingredients are available and fresh.
Antoni Porowski /
Deviate
Ingredients
Adapt
Important Know How
Grocery
Grocery Store
Skeleton
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Jicama, which is one of my favorite things in the summer, looks like a really horrendous root vegetable, which it is - it's like a hybrid of a potato and an apple, but you can eat it raw.
Antoni Porowski /
Hybrid
Looks
Summer
Apple
Favorite
Favorite Things
Horrendous
Potato
Raw
Root
Vegetable
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If I'm in Italy at a certain time of year, I'll make sure to try fresh porcini mushrooms in risotto, or puntarelle, a sort of curled chicory leaf that's only available for a few weeks in May.
Antoni Porowski /
Mushrooms
Italy
Leaf
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When I was studying at the Neighborhood Playhouse, I would overdraft my bank account and not have enough money to buy groceries. But I also discovered how to cook with very limited resources.
Antoni Porowski /
Groceries
Limited Resources
Neighborhood
Account
Bank
Bank Account
Enough Money
Studying
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If I want to hear a voice, Lana Del Rey is very soothing, and I could just listen to her on repeat, but my real go-to that's been very consistent for at least the past ten years is Miles Davis.
Antoni Porowski /
Consistent
Miles
Soothing
Davis
Repeat
Ten Years
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I am someone who food has been a constant in my life, and it's been a passion - it's something that I've constantly studied - and I'm constantly trying to better my craft, and that's good enough for me.
Antoni Porowski /
Life Good Food
Craft
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After the passing of my personal hero, Anthony Bourdain, I've been reflecting a lot on his influence on food culture. He made street food from around the world, that most of us have never heard of, accessible.
Antoni Porowski /
Passing
Reflecting
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My dream kitchen would have a massive island with some beautiful slab of stone, a huge fridge, possibly even a walk-in - I just want it to be a plethora of fruits and veggies. I would have a nice bar area, too.
Antoni Porowski /
Massive
Bar
Fridge
Fruits
Island
Stone
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I was a busboy, a waiter, a manager, a sommelier... like... all of it from a family-run Polish restaurant, with, like, grandmas in the basement hand-making pierogies, to working at Bond Street for a while. I've done it all.
Antoni Porowski /
Waiter
Basement
Bond
Street
Manager
Restaurant
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I would want to do a cooking show. But I want to honor the opportunity that's been given to me with 'Queer Eye.' I feel like my work is cut out for me with the show alone. If it ever goes bust, then I'll explore that possibility.
Antoni Porowski /
Possibility
Bust
Cooking Show
Explore
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I've always considered myself a little more fluid along the spectrum. So even being called bisexual... I remember, in my early twenties, I was like, 'But bisexual means I can only like girls and guys. What if I like something else?'
Antoni Porowski /
Fluid
Spectrum
Twenties
What If
Myself Remember Always
Something Else
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I really enjoy being vulnerable, and it's how I connect with other people, and part of how I do that is through food, by sharing something that I feel is very intimate and personal because it's something that I create out of nothing.
Antoni Porowski /
Enjoy
Intimate
Connect
Create
Personal
Sharing
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Polish people have a wit and sarcasm. They're gentle but still very strong. Like, they love beer, which is traditionally so manly, but they'll put a spoonful of jam in it to sweeten it up. They're this wonderful mix of hard and soft.
Antoni Porowski /
Beer
Gentle
Manly
Sarcasm
Wit
Mix
Spoonful
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The truth is that it has not been my pipe dream to have a restaurant. I know restaurateurs, and the amount of work that goes into a restaurant is nothing short of insanity. It's a real commitment, and most restaurants don't make it, so the odds are really against you.
Antoni Porowski /
Insanity
Odds
Pipe
Restaurants
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There's a deodorant I wear called Baux, from L'Occitane, that is super nostalgic because it reminds me of being in Greece in the summer. When I put it on, I'm immediately taken back to that feeling of having salty skin and hair from the ocean and the taste of fresh fish.
Antoni Porowski /
Ocean
Deodorant
Greece
Nostalgic
Salty
Summer
Taste
Skin
Fish
Immediately
Reminds
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When you're entertaining, and I still haven't accomplished this because I'm always stuck in the kitchen, but spend enough time actually with your guests. It allows you to chill with your friends and be an actual, normal human as opposed to being in the kitchen cooking all the time.
Antoni Porowski /
Chill
Enough Time
Entertaining
Guests
Stuck
Time Always Enough
Actual
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On 'Queer Eye' I come in with what I know, and I try to parlay that into lessons for our 'heroes.' But that's really listening to what they need. Sometimes it's a little more ambitious. Sometimes it's very simplistic. But it's got to be something that's condensed into a short amount of time.
Antoni Porowski /
Lessons
Heroes
Condensed
Time Sometimes Know
Queer
Simplistic
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I have a lot of different passions. Food has been a constant through my whole life; it's something I've always had a very intrinsic passion toward and for, and I continue to learn about it, and I'm not going to let any type of negative comments dissuade me from wanting to pursue that, because I love it.
Antoni Porowski /
Pursue
Life Love Food
Comments
Intrinsic
Passions
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For the most part, it was never assumed that I was gay, and I've had people be sort of surprised that I was gay or act apologetic like they didn't know, which would just make me really uncomfortable. And I never had shame for it, but I never felt like introducing myself as, 'I'm Antoni. I'm gay. How are you?'
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Apologetic
Introducing
Shame
Uncomfortable
Assumed
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I'm someone who's experienced impostor syndrome - as I think a lot of people have with their careers, especially when they pursue what they're passionate about, because they want to be good at it. I've experienced that as a gay man; I've experienced that as a cook, as a gallery director, as a student of psychology.
Antoni Porowski /
Careers
Gallery
Psychology
Pursue
Good Man Gay
Experienced
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When I was around 18, I got kicked out of my parents' house, and I wasn't allowed to take anything with me. I slept on YMCA towels for a whole semester in university before my father found out and bought me a mattress. I felt really free because I was finally living on my own, but I was also really depressed because I had nothing.
Antoni Porowski /
Semester
Towels
University
Allowed
Bought
Depressed
Finally
Father Me Free
Mattress
Slept
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