Chef Quotes · Page 15

You can't be a chef and appear on television all the time. It's impossible. At least when I earned my stars, I…

— Marco Pierre White

You know, I never really thought of myself as a 'celebrity.' One of the titles that I like least is 'celebrity chef.'

— Wolfgang Puck

The worst food you'll ever eat will probably be prepared by a 'cook' who calls himself a 'chef.' Mark my words.

— Alton Brown

I think it's a universal truth that most chefs I know are happiest eating simple, unadorned good things.

— Anthony Bourdain

One of the greatest pleasures of my life has been that I have never stopped learning about Good Cooking and Good Food

— Edna Lewis

I had turned down other head chef jobs. I didn't want to take over someone else's cuisine. I wanted to start from…

— Rene Redzepi

I remember the first time eating my chef's Caesar salad. It was just like one of those moments in the movie theater…

— Rick Ross

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

Chef Matt Accarrino has the best pasta in San Francisco, and Shelley Lindgren is one of my favorite sommeliers. Their attention to…

— Elizabeth Falkner

I think in France, for example, we can say whatever we want about the French, but going out and dining is more…

— Daniel Boulud

“A guest chef would come in and shoot five shows in two days. Most had no TV training and little on-camera experience.…

— Allen Salkin

I had cooked a lot in restaurants, in Rocky Point and on golf courses on Long Island, and my mother said, 'Be…

— D. B. Sweeney

I am a chef through and through. Everything I do - whether it is cooking for kids in Harlem or cooking in…

— Marcus Samuelsson

My husband is a vegetarian. So it has really pushed me as a chef. Just thinking about the food that I really…

— Damaris Phillips

I always tell my family - and they laugh about it - but someday, I will write a vegetarian book. My cousin,…

— Guy Fieri

I cannot bring myself to wear the Nobu hats, or the Nobu T-shirts. But the chef's jacket, that is mine. And when…

— Nobu Matsuhisa

I came from the old world of gastronomy. Many years ago I walked into the kitchens of the Hotel St George and…

— Marco Pierre White

Celebrating the holidays in the White House over these past eight years has been a true privilege. We've been able to welcome…

— Michelle Obama

I got involved through the director of the show [Top Chef], he's a director of films in Mexico; I worked with him…

— Ana Claudia Talancon

I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journeywork of the stars, And the pismire is equally perfect, and…

— Walt Whitman

In America, even your menus have the gift of language… The Chef's own Vienna Roast. A hearty, rich meat loaf, gently seasoned…

— Laurie Lee

I'm crazy lucky. I was trying to be a filmmaker. I was doing Second City classes as a way to be creative.…

— Bill Hader

My job the same as carpenter. What kind of house you want to build? What kind of food you want to make?…

— Masa Takayama

“When they heard that someone was full figured and liked cooking & eating, most men imagined someone who was quiet and domestic;…

— Asako Yuzuki

You can enjoy a $15 bottle of wine as much as you can enjoy a $100 bottle of wine.

— Joe Bastianich

Being an Ethiopian-born, Swedish-raised chef, there's nothing traditional about my Thanksgiving spread.

— Marcus Samuelsson

When I met Corky, he was a cook, a chef. He never started dancing seriously until he was 21, which shows you…

— Shirley Ballas

I have a full Tuscan lunch and dinner every day in my home; my husband's a fantastic chef.

— Debi Mazar

Kitchens should be designed around what's truly important-fun, food, and life.

— Daniel Boulud

I'm not the type of person to eat big hunks of meat. I think people are starting to realize that great things…

— April Bloomfield

I always loved cooking, from an early age. I kind of wanted to be a chef.

— Caleb Followill

A chef is a mixture maybe of artistry and craft. You have to learn the craft really to get there.

— Wolfgang Puck

As a chef, I got into this because I love the creative energy and I love the science, but I also love…

— Christina Tosi

I do a little bit of everything... kind of like being a chef on the court.

— Andre Iguodala

If my last supper was ever going to be cooked by a chef, it would have to be Thomas Keller.

— Gordon Ramsay

Close interaction with farmers and scientists can expose the chef to new flavours that can be used to delight diners.

— Rene Redzepi

The fact is I never intended to be a chef. After Oxford University I had this weird idea of running a nightclub.

— Rick Stein

I decided to do something I've been wanting to do for a long time - go get a chef and a nutritionist…

— Deontay Wilder

Only when a chef changed the way you saw the world, through cooking, did food truly become art, and that was rare…

— Michael Ruhlman

Very good cooks who are employed as 'chefs' rarely refer to themselves as 'chefs.' They refer to themselves as 'cooks.'

— Alton Brown