You need chocolate with enough cocoa butter. If your chocolate is high-quality, with a good content of cocoa butter, the chocolate will melt inside and create layering. That’s very important. Those chocolate morsels don’t melt. So, for the best chocolate chip cookies, I use the chocolate we sell, which is a 60 percent cocoa. Jacques Torres Read Quote
I like music that is upbeat, such as Lady Gaga and Bruno Mars. Or anything disco – I will listen to that, too. Jacques Torres Read Quote
I started cooking around 9 years old. I would make crepes at home for my parents. By 15 years old, I had started my apprenticeship at a bakery. Jacques Torres Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
I believe history and tradition is something solid and something we can rest on. I am not crazy about putting new spices in chocolate. Jacques Torres Read Quote
I still make mistakes today – I always explain to people, when you will make as many mistakes as I did, then you will know as much as I know in my profession. Jacques Torres Read Quote
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 Read Quote
Christmas is the biggest holiday in numbers – in terms of gross amounts – because you have one and a half to two months. Jacques Torres Read Quote
