Quotes from Tom Douglas
Disappointing cakes have often been sitting out too long. They should last just long enough to have the last pieces the next morning with coffee - who doesn't love cake with coffee?
— Tom Douglas
After being cooked, ling cod tends to bleed out some moisture, so, before serving, let it rest a few moments on a plate. Once the moisture has been released, you can carefully pick up the fillet with a slotted spatula and transfer it to another plate for saucing. This way, you won't sog out your beautiful sauce.
— Tom Douglas
Alaska Airlines and I have a lot in common, so coming together to delight travelers with savory, high quality food from the Pacific Northwest made sense.
— Tom Douglas
The best meal I was served was ribollita, an Italian bread soup at the Castello di Ama winery in Tuscany. I usually hate ribollita, and the people I was traveling with thought I was crazy for ordering it.
— Tom Douglas
Sustainability includes how you run your business, and my bottom line includes how you treat your people. Sustainability starts with your staff.
— Tom Douglas
Sweet, delicious Dungeness crab is always a treat.
— Tom Douglas
Every chef has his treats. By that, I mean bits and pieces from things you're working on - crusty little cake trimmings, ends from a brisket, collars from a salmon, scraps. But they're snacks to me, and I eat them right off the cutting board - maybe too much.
— Tom Douglas
Often we eat squid fried, so it's fun to grill it for a change. To grill squid, slice the cleaned bodies open into two flat pieces and thread them, along with the tentacles, onto skewers, then grill quickly over a direct fire with the coals as close as possible to the grate, turning the squid several times.
— Tom Douglas
Steaming is a great way to cook any firm fleshed fish, but it's often overlooked by the home cook.
— Tom Douglas
Money is like manure: if you don't spread it around, nothing grows.
— Tom Douglas
Cooks are an undervalued, awesome profession.
— Tom Douglas
There's a restaurant in Manhattan called Balthazar, and next to it is Balthazar Bakery. It's tiny, and it's very charming to have that little retail outlet to sell the house desserts and breads.
— Tom Douglas