Chefs Quotes · Page 4

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

— Daniel Boulud

Many chefs are either technically or artistically better than me, but I know my food has soul.

— Nobu Matsuhisa

Engineers don't have that sixth sense where we can just toss in things here and there like many chefs.

— Alvin Leung

All the great chefs I know - Thomas Keller, Jean-Georges Vongerichten - they are technicians first.

— Jacques Pepin

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

— Alton Brown

TV chefs are not responsible for people's consumption of fibre; this is not our job.

— Yotam Ottolenghi

I know pastry chefs who are overwhelmed by the idea of tasting, rather than measuring, their way to a balanced vinaigrette.

— Samin Nosrat

It's all of our jobs as chefs to make sure the ingredients that we use are the highest quality and the best…

— Antonia Lofaso

One of the best things about 'The Chefs' Line' has been seeing how these generations-honed recipes fare when they go up against…

— Melissa Leong

I think that's what being a chef is all about: camaraderie and teamwork. I never feel that it should be so cutthroat…

— Michael Symon

Many of the master chefs in the South, both the upper South as well as the deep South, were blacks and many…

— Ed Smith

Writing is getting killed by too many chefs. Back in the Bogart days, it started with great scripts. You had a writer,…

— Peter Dinklage

When France was the only reference for chefs to learn, you could go everywhere in the world, and they would copy dishes…

— Daniel Boulud

to "set the standard for beauty in classical and modem cookery, and attest to the distant future that the French chefs of…

— Marie-Antoine Careme

With chefs, the problem is we have to be very confident because people are looking at us for that. So pretty soon,…

— Michael Mina

Chefs are at the end of a long chain of individuals who work hard to feed people. Farmers, beekeepers, bakers, scientists, fishermen,…

— Anonymous

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

It's been really nice to have people want to come out and support you and want to come out and see what…

— Antonia Lofaso

One thing that makes me very happy is to see the growing activism among chefs in America. Chefs like Tom Colicchio, Bill…

— Anonymous

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

— Ferran Adria

What I've learned over the years is it's so much better to surround yourself with real talent and hire real chefs. I…

— Michael Mina

We have very professional, amazing chefs that are contestants. Most of them have their own restaurants and are settled, recognized chefs in…

— Ana Claudia Talancon

Movies are grander, with (in my experience) more heavy weight chefs in the kitchen: the studio, the producers, the writers. All of…

— Neal Brennan

Many chefs of a certain caliber do not see me as a chef. I don't have a restaurant. They see me as…

— Giada De Laurentiis

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

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

In any restaurant of this caliber, the chefs are in the same position, building relationships.

— Thomas Keller

Chefs become attracted to being able to get product and then clientele - those are the two things that attract you as…

— Michael Mina

We the chefs have a responsibility to learn about the chemical makeup of food!

— Joel Robuchon

Chefs are artists, and I couldn't be happy with my art if I was forced to use cheap ingredients.

— Nobu Matsuhisa

Anybody can cook for chefs. I cooked for a three Michelin star chef when I was cooking at home.

— Alvin Leung

The reason that chefs become chefs is that they're not allowed into rooms with windows.

— A. A. Gill

As chefs, we work with organizations like Oxfam to enrich their projects with culinary tools, recipes and ideas.

— Anonymous

My biggest role models are not chefs, but women like Coco Chanel, Simone de Beauvoir, Nina Simone.

— Dominique Crenn

The biggest thing is education for young chefs and how they should focus on one cuisine rather than trying to imitate too…

— Daniel Boulud

I don't think the rating system places too much pressure on chefs. I prefer to put the pressure on my chefs to…

— Alain Ducasse

Chefs get sucked into the trap of 'fine dining' because some guides make it central to their ratings system and because some…

— John Lanchester

The food being presented at the most expensive restaurants, by the most sophisticated chefs, was not always recognizable as food to the…

— Dana Goodyear

What's frustrating more than anything is when chefs start to cut corners and believe that they are incognito in the way they…

— Gordon Ramsay