Chefs Quotes · Page 3

Techniques are not the most difficult to teach. The attitudes chefs take are much more important.

— Alain Ducasse

There's not a lot of chefs in the kitchen and very few people are involved in 'Hot Ones.' There's no research team…

— Sean Evans

I think cooks that are just interested in molecular gastronomy are cooks that will never be chefs.

— Dominique Crenn

“I love Italy. For hundreds of years, if not centuries, the people of italy (Italians) have been living here." [Audrey's insight]”

— Tom Gleisner

The real evolution is to learn something new every day - it's very important for chefs to share what they have discovered.

— Alain Ducasse

You see fewer and fewer chefs who are really big - most stay in shape.

— Wolfgang Puck

I just love it when the chefs start to gain in confidence and it gets really exciting.

— Monica Galetti

There really is a camaraderie among chefs and a willingness to help out whenever we can.

— Rocco DiSpirito

The restaurant chefs in Spain are breaking ground, but in terms of the everyday cooking in Spain I still hear people coming…

— Sally Schneider

Chefs don't use white pepper just to avoid spoiling the whiteness of pommes puree or bechamel. It has a more peppery aroma,…

— Yotam Ottolenghi

“Lots of famous chefs today don’t look whacked, because they don’t work. They have a healthy glow and a clear complexion. There…

— Marco Pierre White

“Chefs and surgeons, historians, athletes, all so full of wonder, lovingly careful, and living right at the point of contact, the nailhead…

— Jalaluddin Rumi

Chefs have always been leaders, but now, because of social media and the evolution of the chef identity, we have a voice…

— Roy Choi

I have met a lot of top chefs around the world during my travels. Each one of them has said 'Ratatouille' is…

— John Lasseter

I love food and lots of my friends are chefs. I love dishes from my Russian-Polish Jewish heritage. I like to make…

— Kim Bodnia

It's very hard to be an innovator at the highest level in any discipline. For some chefs it's merely about combining ingredients,…

— Ferran Adria

I'd love to cook. It's something I've got into since I've grown older. I'm mates with Jamie Oliver and he's been a…

— Jason Flemyng

Chefs hate desserts. The smartest thing a chef can do is hire a great pastry chef. Cooking savory food is all about…

— Michael Symon

I think a lot of chefs can definitely think about great flavor combinations and stuff, but then they'll pass it along to…

— Stephanie Izard

The stressful part of that is that you're not a chef. People who have learnt to be chefs have spent years in…

— Jayne Middlemiss

Cooking is work that is traditionally done by working-class people. The work itself is not glamorous. It's repetitive, and it's a lot…

— Anthony Bourdain

I remember in the first season going, 'This is retarded. I can't believe they're making chefs do this.' But then it actually…

— Tom Colicchio

Our clients wanted the restaurant experience, not their mother's buffet dinner - so we reached out to that world and hired a…

— David Castle

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

I love chicken. But, like a lot of chefs and cooks, I get tired of preparing it the same way.

— Marcus Samuelsson

I don't know any group of professionals that mobilize as fast and as often as chefs do when there are people who…

— Anonymous

We need representation of different chefs, as well as different foods.

— Sohla El-Waylly

There are so many impassioned winemakers. I think there are more impassioned winemakers than chefs.

— Alain Ducasse

The problem is that there is many great chefs and many great cookbooks, but none of them work at home.

— Daniel Boulud

It's great that Mary Berry got a primetime TV show, but I don't think there are enough women chefs on TV.

— Rachel Khoo

You look at most of these 'best chef' lists, and there are about nine male chefs and one woman chef. The problem…

— Dominique Crenn

Long Island for me, it's producing more chefs coming out of there than Paris.

— Gordon Ramsay

Chefs, as a whole, say yes to any project, fundraiser, or tasting because they have such a generous spirit.

— Charlie Trotter

5-star chefs stay cooking in the kitchen but only making that good shit, see the way I'm living they like oh my…

— Mac Miller

HGTV design folks and chefs are exactly the same people. One designs, the other cooks - that's the only difference.

— Antonia Lofaso

I've discovered the burger is a crazy thing in Vegas, but I was one of the early chefs to do a lot…

— Daniel Boulud

I love 'Iron Chef' and I love 'Chopped.' I watch both of them. I think it is crazy what those chefs go…

— Guy Fieri

I spent time at my grandfather Dino's gourmet store where he brought in chefs from Naples to cook. I thought of them…

— Giada De Laurentiis

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

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Most chefs only use and need a handful of knives - even if they own 25, they usually grab the same four…

— Brad Leone