Duff Goldman Professions : Pastry chef Born : December 17, 1974 Browse All Authors Top 13 quotes by Duff Goldman The great thing about cake is it doesn't feel like work. You forget about work. Kids, adults, they all get the same look in their eye when they're decorating cakes... That's the magic right there. Duff Goldman cake eye kids If all I hired were cake decorators, our cakes would just look like cakes that people decorate. We do astounding work at Charm City Cakes and to do that you need people who think in astounding ways. Artists just think in different ways. Duff Goldman cake artist thinking I feel like I'm 18, with the maturity level of like a 14-year-old. I'm still the same goofball; I'm still in college, as far as I'm concerned. Duff Goldman maturity college years Law breaking, graffiti artist, dumb jock that I am, I'm pretty socially conscious. Duff Goldman dumb artist law I love history because when you strip away the social and political aspects, it's really just a bunch of fun stories. Duff Goldman political stories fun My life just got taken over by my cooking. If you don't have any discipline, which I don't, you can make 10 gallons of chocolate mousse, take a spoonful and another and another, and you won't realize you've eaten like five servings of it. It's just what you do. Duff Goldman discipline cooking taken I'm a neurotic Jew who doesn't want loans. I can't even carry a balance on my credit card without having a nervous breakdown. Duff Goldman credit balance cards If you're from Philly and you're listening to this, please know that the rest of the world looks at Philly and they're jealous of your food. I promise. And if you're not from Philly, and you've never been here and you're thinking about coming somewhere to the East Coast, come to Philly and eat the food because the food. Is. Amazing. Duff Goldman jealous listening thinking I kind of feel like I've been eating professionally for a long time. I've tasted everything. If there's a sausage, you know what? I know exactly what it tastes like. I love them all. But right now it's more important for me to not have all that grease and fat in my body. Duff Goldman grease important long I'm not on a mission. I'm not a paragon of health for anybody. I'm not going to run a marathon or model for 'Men's Health' or go on bike rides with Lance Armstrong. I'm not. Trust me. Duff Goldman goes-on running men If you're going to figure something out, study ethics. You can ask What's the answer? What's Right and Wrong? What I learned is that nobody knows the answer and there is no Right and Wrong. So I'm incapable of becoming a fundamentalist because there are no absolutes, there's always a what if. Duff Goldman what-if becoming answers My only agenda is to celebrate this and make it true in every state. Duff Goldman latest-headlines When I got a deposit on my very first cake, I took that deposit and I bought some cake mix with it. I've never taken a loan - ever. And we're doing this expansion just like everything we've done in this bakery as we've grown. If we weren't able to afford paying for something cash, we didn't buy it. Duff Goldman doing never cake done Similar Authors Emily Luchetti pastry-chef Elizabeth Falkner pastry-chef Jacques Torres pastry-chef Ron Ben-Israel pastry-chef All Authors
