{"id":1038,"date":"2011-04-28T21:26:06","date_gmt":"2011-04-29T01:26:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rexfeng.com\/blog\/?p=1038"},"modified":"2011-04-28T21:26:06","modified_gmt":"2011-04-29T01:26:06","slug":"there-is-no-such-thing-as-perfect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rexfeng.com\/blog\/2011\/04\/there-is-no-such-thing-as-perfect\/","title":{"rendered":"There is No Such Thing as Perfect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re into food, especially meals that you could never afford, there&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thefeast.com\/newyork\/restaurants\/The-French-Laundry-Thomas-Keller-Per-Se-The-Feast.html?ct=\">a great photo comparison<\/a> of Thomas Keller&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.frenchlaundry.com\/\">The French Laundry<\/a> &amp; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.perseny.com\/\">Per Se<\/a> by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thefeast.com\/newyork\/\">TheFeast<\/a>. The photos and accompanying captions do an excellent job of showing the similarities and differences between Keller&#8217;s Michelin 3 star restaurants.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1039\" style=\"width: 535px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thefeast.com\/newyork\/restaurants\/The-French-Laundry-Thomas-Keller-Per-Se-The-Feast.html?ct=\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1039\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1039\" title=\"signs11\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rexfeng.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/signs11.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"335\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rexfeng.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/signs11.jpg 525w, https:\/\/www.rexfeng.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/signs11-150x95.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.rexfeng.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/signs11-300x191.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1039\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Matt Duckor (TheFeast)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The sign that hangs in both of Keller&#8217;s restaurants reads:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>When you acknowledge, as you must, that there is no such thing as perfect food, only the idea of it, then the real purpose of striving toward perfection becomes clear: to make people happy, that is what cooking is all about.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Replace the words &#8216;food&#8217; and \u00a0&#8216;cooking&#8217; with whatever subject matter you want. That is the recipe (sorry, had to) for success.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re into food, especially meals that you could never afford, there&#8217;s a great photo comparison of Thomas Keller&#8217;s The French Laundry &amp; Per Se by TheFeast. The photos and accompanying captions do an excellent job of showing the similarities and differences between Keller&#8217;s Michelin 3 star restaurants. The sign that hangs in both of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[691,299,690,694,219,687,692,693,689,688],"class_list":["post-1038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","tag-cooking","tag-food","tag-french","tag-napa","tag-nyc","tag-per-se","tag-perfection","tag-realistic","tag-the-french-laundry","tag-thomas-keller"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rexfeng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rexfeng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rexfeng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rexfeng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rexfeng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1038"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.rexfeng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1043,"href":"https:\/\/www.rexfeng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038\/revisions\/1043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rexfeng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rexfeng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rexfeng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}