Chef T. Perrin has a beautiful way of speaking to make you comfortable while speaking his mind on important food matters. He has intelligent and considerate thoughts on eating, food, food security, and policy.

Chef Todd Perrin Moments/Quotes:

“my love for food started with eating it, you know, and then, and then turned into making it after a while.”

“eating something for the sake of the food is a reasonably new way of thinking here within the last generation or two … going to dinner at someone’s house was not about .. dinner, it was about meeting people and hanging with friends and family and you ate something hearty and good because you had to get up in the morning…”

”our attitude towards food and dining has changes .... it’s allowed restaurants and mine... because people are more open to enjoying a meal for the sake of enjoying a meal than they used to be.”

”we are a restaurant so we use lots of salt, lots of butter, lots of fat but everything we use is unprocessed... if we take a local carrot that’s been grown in the ground here, we you know wash it we saute it with a bit of local butter and season it with a little bit of sea salt that’s not going to make people sick... we try to serve people natural food, real food that’s you know prepared carefully...”

“[A healthy relationship with food] … we try to let the ingredients do their work… you know like the old saying right - everything in moderation”

“Food is a very intimate thing… we should take it seriously we should not take it for granted.”

“We were sustainable because we had to be because if it wasn’t sustainable you perished.”