Chef Quotes · Page 16

Don't take a butcher's advice on how to cook meat. If he knew, he'd be a chef.

— Andy Rooney

TV is a deformed vision, an excessive caricature. A chef has to stay an artisan, not become a star.

— Alain Ducasse

My boyfriend's a real chef, so I steer clear of him when I'm in the kitchen - I wouldn't like him to…

— Alice Levine

“We can't all be bakers or chefs. Many of us have modest ambitions. But we can all buy a piece of the…

— Amah Lambert

Food is life, life is food. If you don't like my approach you are welcome to go down to McDonalds.

— Keith Floyd

We are foodies, we love to eat, my dad's a chef, and coming from an Italian family, we love to eat.

— Mandy Rose

Chefs have a new opportunity - and perhaps even an obligation - to inform the public about what is good to eat,…

— Rene Redzepi

Both my parents are chefs... I grew up in a restaurant and was always surrounded by cooks. I love food.

— Ming-Na Wen

I cooked for the two Popes that were here. Pope Francis I cooked for and Pope Benedict before him. Pope Benedict is…

— Lidia Bastianich

My grandfather was a chef at the Copacabana, and he ended up being a chef at the 21 Club - a master…

— Marky Ramone

My cousin owns restaurants, and I used to work in his restaurants with his chef. I've always liked food, and I've always…

— Luke Pasqualino

Young chefs, famous chefs, home cooks, and everyone who loves food and cooking-we all depend on Larousse Gastronomique. It is the only…

— Daniel Boulud

Peace begins in the kitchens and pantries, gardens and backyards, where our food is grown and prepared. The energies of nature and…

— Michio Kushi

I liked the energy of cooking, the action, the camaraderie. I often compare the kitchen to sports and compare the chef to…

— Todd English

I am very proud of Jim Leiken. He has worked with me for six years and has been patient enough to learn…

— Daniel Boulud

I hated the Naked Chef. Fine, yes, he did good things for school food or whatever, but, you know, I don't want…

— Anthony Bourdain

A chef is a chef, a cook is a cook; a lorry driver is a lorry driver and a designer is a…

— Ferran Adria

In playwriting, you've got to be able to write dialogue. And if you write enough of it and let it flow enough,…

— David Mamet

It's a life choice to be a girl chef, as it is to be a boy chef. It feels pretty natural to…

— Anne Burrell

Sometimes these challenges naturally select more chefs that can think on their feet very quickly. There are chefs I know who won't…

— Tom Colicchio

IMBECILE!" the chef shouted. "Next time why don't you just put your whole HAND in the food, hey? Yes, your whole hand,…

— Kenneth Oppel

“Prideep pointed to the flames of paraffin lamps as they came alive in the distance and cackled in awe at the experience.…

— Tahir Shah

To the chefs who pioneered the nouvelle cuisine in France, the ancienne cuisine they were rebelling against looked timeless, primordial, old as…

— Raymond Sokolov

The person who's receiving the food cooks as much as the chef. They have a very important role to play... There's no…

— Ferran Adria

Essentially, for me, the whole point of being a chef is to have your own restaurant.

— Ranveer Brar

Cooking grits and riding dick. Swear she the best chef around. Pop that p*ssy, now let me see you doo doo brown.

— Tyga

Historically, almost every cookbook and chef have taught that when you're cooking a piece of meat, the first step should be searing.

— J. Kenji Lopez-Alt

Whenever I want to know how to cook something, I can't ask one chef - I have to ask six.

— Alice Waters

“The chef who cooks without a song on his lips cannot hope to infuse the right carefree improvisatory note into his art.”

— James Hamilton-Paterson

Cooking was taken with such seriousness in France that even ordinary chefs were proud of their profession. That's what appealed to me.

— Julia Child

I'm a chef, I own restaurants, and there's a behavior in the kitchen you have to have.

— Guy Fieri

Even growing up, I was always the helper-outer, the sous-chef to my parents.

— Lindsey Vonn

“A good spice often deceives us into thinking that someone is a good cook.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I'm not a chef. But I'm passionate about food - the tradition of it, cooking it, and sharing it.

— Zac Posen

At some point of my life I've always fantasized that I'd be a boxing champion of the 160-pound division. Or a chef,…

— Pedro Capo

Part of being a good chef is being able to work well with others and make things work under different circumstances.

— Stephanie Izard

I think that a lot of us at home are iron chefs in their own right in that we have to come…

— Jose Garces

The opportunity to be a star chef, to imagine it would be here in Las Vegas, I couldn't comprehend it.

— Guy Fieri

A lot of young chefs today get carried away by trends, by influences, by movements.

— Daniel Boulud

I worked as a scaffolder, worked as a chef, tried my hand working in a coffee shop, tried my hand as a…

— Gerry Cinnamon