Chef famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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The reason that chefs become chefs is that they're not allowed into rooms with windows.
-- A. A. Gill -
The best way to learn to cook is to do some serious eating.
-- Alexandra Guarnaschelli -
Eh! Je suis leur chef, il fallait bien les suivre. (Ah well! I am their leader, I really ought to follow them.)
-- Alexandre Auguste Ledru-Rollin -
The worst food you'll ever eat will probably be prepared by a 'cook' who calls himself a 'chef.' Mark my words.
-- Alton Brown -
Very good cooks who are employed as 'chefs' rarely refer to themselves as 'chefs.' They refer to themselves as 'cooks.'
-- Alton Brown -
I am so proud of 'Top Chef' - I think it's got great cred.
-- Andy Cohen -
I've been nominated for 12 Emmys, and we won - for 'Top Chef' - the only time I didn't go.
-- Andy Cohen -
Don't take a butcher's advice on how to cook meat. If he knew, he'd be a chef.
-- Andy Rooney -
Don't dunk your nigiri in the soy sauce. Don't mix your wasabi in the soy sauce. If the rice is good, complement your sushi chef on the rice.
-- Anthony Bourdain -
As a chef I’m not your dietitian or your ethicist, I’m in the pleasure business.
-- Anthony Bourdain -
If you have a good experience in a restaurant, you tell 2 people. If you have a bad experience, you tell 10 people.
-- Anthony Bourdain -
I'm evangelical on the subject of some chefs and writers.
-- Anthony Bourdain -
I'm a Twitter addict. Jose Andres is a serial tweeter. It's funny to see which chefs have embraced it, and the different paths they take.
-- Anthony Bourdain -
Every chef I know, their cholesterol is through the roof. And mine's not so great.
-- Anthony Bourdain -
Food's delicate. You have to handle it with finesse. You can't just be a big ogre.
-- April Bloomfield -
I have a chef who makes sure that I'm getting the right amounts of carbs, proteins and fats throughout the day to keep me at my max performance level.
-- Barry Bonds -
Set yourself up for success from the very beginning and then focus on maintaining that success.
-- Cat Cora -
Chefs, as a whole, say yes to any project, fundraiser, or tasting because they have such a generous spirit.
-- Charlie Trotter -
Fame hurt. People thought I was a sellout chef and stopped coming to my restaurant.
-- Chris Cosentino -
I love food shows: Anthony Bourdain, Iron Chef, Chopped, you name it.
-- Donnie Wahlberg -
The winner is the chef who takes the same ingredients as everyone else and produces the best results.
-- Edward de Bono -
I would love to date a chef. I'd probably get really fat, but I don't care.
-- Elizabeth Olsen -
I'm not a TV guy. I'm a restaurant chef and a businessman.
-- Emeril Lagasse -
I'm not a trained chef, so I end up making stuff up. It either turns out brilliant or an absolute disaster. I just go for it.
-- Eric Balfour -
You don't have to be a chef or even a particularly good cook to experience proper kitchen alchemy: the moment when ingredients combine to form something more delectable than the sum of their parts.
-- Erin Morgenstern -
A good apprentice cook must be as polite with the dishwasher as with the chef.
-- Fernand Point -
If he is thin, I will probably dine poorly. If he is both thin and sad, the only hope is in flight.
-- Fernand Point -
In my early days, I copied the great French chefs, like most chefs do. Copying is not bad. Copying and not recognizing that you are copying is bad. For me, when I go to a restaurant and am served a dish influenced by something we created at elBulli, if it's well done, it makes me extremely happy.
-- Ferran Adria -
There's not a single chef I know of that does not think about the politics of the food they're serving.
-- Gail Simmons -
The chef that grew up with the grandma who cooks tends to always beat the chef that went to the culinary institute. It's in the blood.
-- Gary Vaynerchuk -
I always had a fantasy of being a chef, because I like kitchen life.
-- Geoffrey Rush -
Everybody these days wants to be a star, including myself. Don't get me wrong, I'm a chef but you want to market yourself and your projects.
-- Geoffrey Zakarian -
There's a bond among a kitchen staff, I think. You spend more time with your chef in the kitchen than you do with your own family.
-- Gordon Ramsay -
If you want to become a great chef, you have to work with great chefs. And that's exactly what I did.
-- Gordon Ramsay -
I am a chef who happens to appear on the telly, that's it.
-- Gordon Ramsay -
I am the most unselfish chef in Britain today.
-- Gordon Ramsay -
I am well aware that a chef is only as good as his last meal.
-- Gordon Ramsay -
Maybe one of the only things I do well: I cook like a maniac! I would be a chef if I weren't an actor.
-- Ian Somerhalder -
My palate is simpler than it used to be. A young chef adds and adds and adds to the plate. As you get older, you start to take away.
-- Jacques Pepin -
All the great chefs I know - Thomas Keller, Jean-Georges Vongerichten - they are technicians first.
-- Jacques Pepin -
I did all the Chef Boyardee commercials, in America, when I was young.
-- Jane Seymour -
Great chefs know it's the appearance of food that counts...but great eaters know its the amount of food that counts
-- Jim Davis -
Mario you are a great chef but you look like a homeless James Gandolfini.
-- Jim Norton -
You can enjoy a $15 bottle of wine as much as you can enjoy a $100 bottle of wine.
-- Joe Bastianich -
As chefs, we cook to please people, to nourish people.
-- Jose Andres -
As a chef, if I can taste something, I can basically figure out whats in it.
-- Kelis -
Even growing up, I was always the helper-outer, the sous-chef to my parents.
-- Lindsey Vonn -
Do something you love and people will love you for it.
-- Maneet Chauhan -
If you are not extreme, then people will take shortcuts because they don't fear you.
-- Marco Pierre White -
As a chef and activist, I'm particularly concerned with food politics issues such as the farm bill.
-- Marcus Samuelsson -
It will always be trendy to do the right thing with food.
-- Marcus Samuelsson -
to "set the standard for beauty in classical and modem cookery, and attest to the distant future that the French chefs of the 19th century were the most famous in the world.
-- Marie-Antoine Careme -
First of all, I can't really claim to be a great chef.
-- Martin Yan -
In Japanese sushi restaurants, a lot of sushi chefs talk too much.
-- Masa Takayama -
Chefs become attracted to being able to get product and then clientele - those are the two things that attract you as a chef.
-- Michael Mina -
If you're not the one cooking, stay out of the way and compliment the chef.
-- Michael Strahan -
My father cried when I said I wanted to be a chef.
-- Michael Symon -
For the longest time, chefs and restaurateurs were able to get products home cooks couldn't get, but that's not the case anymore.
-- Michael Symon -
Both my parents are chefs I grew up in a restaurant and was always surrounded by cooks. I love food.
-- Ming-Na Wen -
If I want popularity, I go to a chef's convention.
-- Nathan Myhrvold -
Chef's choice is my favorite. I'm super adventurous.
-- Neil Patrick Harris -
Great food needed more than chefs; it needed gourmet diners.
-- Nicole Mones -
I am not a chef. I am not even a trained or professional cook. My qualification is as an eater.
-- Nigella Lawson -
Gordon Ramsay makes me laugh because he knows that I'm not a chef.
-- Nigella Lawson -
All chefs are like Jewish mothers. They want to feed you and feed you and impress you. It's an eagerness to please.
-- Padma Lakshmi -
I think the most wonderful thing in the world is another chef. I'm always excited about learning new things about food.
-- Paul Prudhomme -
Chefs have a new opportunity - and perhaps even an obligation - to inform the public about what is good to eat, and why.
-- Rene Redzepi -
Learning about issues such as sustainability and locavorism are things that you need to have as part of you as a chef because it will make you cook more delicious food.
-- Rene Redzepi -
Close interaction with farmers and scientists can expose the chef to new flavours that can be used to delight diners.
-- Rene Redzepi -
I never cooked at home - my father was the chef.
-- Rene Redzepi -
A great chef is an artist that I truly respect.
-- Robert Stack -
There really is a camaraderie among chefs and a willingness to help out whenever we can.
-- Rocco DiSpirito -
If you've attended the Cordon Bleu, you would know that no woman is supposed to be a chef - only men.
-- Sandra Lee -
You're getting to know who the great chefs are through their books.
-- Thomas Keller -
I wanted to learn everything I could about what it takes to be a great chef. It was a turning point for me.
-- Thomas Keller -
I came to understand that the words executive and corporate never belong next to the word chef.
-- Thomas Keller -
In any restaurant of this caliber, the chefs are in the same position, building relationships.
-- Thomas Keller -
I miss being fawned over by restaurateurs and chefs.
-- Toby Young -
It's wild how chefs have become like rock stars.
-- Todd English -
Every chef should have an understanding of pastries or desserts.
-- Tom Colicchio -
I'd like to see 'Top Chef: Amateur'. Sometimes we have an amateur chef on the show and they just can't cut it against the pros but there are some great stories there.
-- Tom Colicchio -
Many of them have accomplished a lot before they ever get to 'Top Chef' although they're not well known. The show just provides them with a platform. There's just one winner and on some seasons you can get numerous chefs that are really good. Even if they don't win, they're all talented.
-- Tom Colicchio -
'Chef' doesn't mean that you're the best cook, it simply means 'boss.'
-- Tom Colicchio -
I call all chefs 'cooks.' They're all cooks. That's what we do, we cook. You're a chef when you're running a kitchen.
-- Tom Colicchio -
I am the emperor of Germany, but you are the emperor of chefs.
-- Wilhelm II -
I'm a bit of a gourmet chef. I love cooking - mostly Thai food.
-- Will Ferrell -
A chef is a mixture maybe of artistry and craft. You have to learn the craft really to get there.
-- Wolfgang Puck -
A good chef has to be a manager, a businessman and a great cook. To marry all three together is sometimes difficult.
-- Wolfgang Puck -
A lot of chefs are traditional and do it very well. But the ones who are the most successful are the ones who change things. That is why someone like Heston Blumenthal is a genius.
-- Wolfgang Puck -
One thing I always say is being a great chef today is not enough - you have to be a great businessman.
-- Wolfgang Puck -
Now everybody thinks that once you do Top Chef, then 13 weeks later you're a chef. Nobody wants to learn to cook anymore.
-- Wolfgang Puck -
If you were to go to a restaurant and disagree with Daniel Boulud, he'd probably throw something at you. Restaurant chefs have a problem with caterers because we accommodate special requests, but great service is about getting exactly what you want.
-- David Castle -
I used to take culinary arts at Job Corps so I'm a certified chef. I could cook chicken alfredo.
-- Gorilla Zoe
