SALT. ADD MORE SALT.

I have never ever had as much salt in my food as I have here at L'School. Some days I will add three or four times what I would normally use. Chef tastes it and says “Non. Is bland. More salt.”.

And that's when my pan of sauce implodes because the sauce reached a critical mass, imploded, and became a black hole. Stupid sauce. Just take more salt. You're making me look bad.

This appears to be just the right amount of salt for the French.