Alexandra Guarnaschelli famous quotes

03-28-2025

I think we love bacon because it has all the qualities of an amazing sensory experience. When we cook it, the sizzling sound is so appetizing, the aroma is maddening, the crunch of the texture is so gratifying and the taste delivers every time.
-- Alexandra Guarnaschelli

#Thinking #Quality #Sound
Winter blues are cured every time with a potato gratin paired with a roast chicken.
-- Alexandra Guarnaschelli

#Winter #Potatoes #Chickens
I used to sleep with the phone right by my pillow but I'm getting better. Now it sits on the table a few feet away.
-- Alexandra Guarnaschelli

#Sleep #Phones #Feet
I don't show just anyone how to crust a sea bass. That's sacred information.
-- Alexandra Guarnaschelli

#Sea #Bass #Information
I bent my head over a stove in my early 20s and picked it up in my 30s.
-- Alexandra Guarnaschelli

#Bent #Stoves
My father always said, 'If you love what you do, you won't mind slogging through it for several hours a day.
-- Alexandra Guarnaschelli

#Father #Mind #Hours
For me no good food is illuminated without acidity.
-- Alexandra Guarnaschelli

#Good Food
Food is ever-changing and ever moving forward and getting more and more complex.
-- Alexandra Guarnaschelli

#Moving #Moving Forward
The hardest thing about being a full time chef is leaving my work behind when I go home at night. I'll toss and turn about a menu item or forget to order produce and wake up at 4 A.M. in a cold sweat over some artichokes.
-- Alexandra Guarnaschelli

#Home #Night #Sweat
Give yourself enough time to really learn how to cook.
-- Alexandra Guarnaschelli

#Giving #Enough Time #Enough
Food is so heavily connected to memory.
-- Alexandra Guarnaschelli

#Memories #Connected
My reasons for becoming a chef are somewhat of a cliche. I always loved to eat but it was watching my parents cook that really served as the impetus for my career choice.
-- Alexandra Guarnaschelli

#Careers #Parent #Choices
The best way to learn to cook is to do some serious eating.
-- Alexandra Guarnaschelli

#Way #Serious #Chef
The better the ingredients, the more farmers I can buy from, the closer I feel to the food I want to make that represents what I care about as a chef.
-- Alexandra Guarnaschelli

#Care #Want #Ingredients
If you want to have a relationship, at some point you have to let yourself get caught. That's what I did. I got caught.
-- Alexandra Guarnaschelli

#Want #Caught
I woke up on May 15, 1991, the day of my Barnard graduation, and I said to myself, 'By the end of today you will decide what you want to do with the rest of your life.'
-- Alexandra Guarnaschelli

#May #Want #Today
It's amazing the relationships you forge in a kitchen. When you cooperate in an environment that's hot. Where there's a lot of knives. You're trusting your well-being with someone you've never before met or known.
-- Alexandra Guarnaschelli

#Knives #Kitchen #Hot
The hardest thing for me is restraint.
-- Alexandra Guarnaschelli

#Restraint #Hardest
If I want my daughter to try something, I eat it in front of her repeatedly without forcing the issue and, with some trial and error, the world is our oyster!
-- Alexandra Guarnaschelli

#Daughter #Mother #Errors
I find myself hoping I can get on a TV show, and then people from Oklahoma will come to my restaurant. Then I'll be able to make enough money to open my own place.
-- Alexandra Guarnaschelli

#Oklahoma #Tv Shows #People

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