Many argue, pointing out that the majority of top chefs…

Probably a mistake, you know, that people make in America, to think that all great chefs are a male... I'm still the only male…

— Jacques Pepin

“mess of Italy, France, and some burgeoning American cuisine that nobody really believed in yet? A hodgepodge that shouldn’t have worked? When I asked…

— Stephanie Danler

All of these concoctions that we think are Mexican, are in no way reflective of the deep, incredibly old, complex and sophisticated deep regional…

— Anthony Bourdain

If you ask what people say what American cuisine is, they cannot really do it. I don't know what it is.

— David Chang

“Fortunately, I knew the cardinal rule of getting on with one’s fellow cooks. It applies in any kitchen and can be summed up in…

— Jacques Pépin

I take apart restaurant menus everywhere I go. I kind of tick off a lot of chefs in restaurants because I'll say, 'You can…

— Montel Williams

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

— Dominique Crenn

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

— Anonymous

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

— Rocco DiSpirito

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

— Dana Goodyear

“I cooked with so many of the greats: Tom Colicchio, Eric Ripert, Wylie Dufresne, Grant Achatz. Rick Bayless taught me not one but two…

— Stacey Ballis

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

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

— Peter Dinklage

“I don't believe in twisting yourself into knots of excuses and explanations over the food you make. When one's hostess starts in with self-deprecations…

— Julia Child

First of all, when you build a restaurant of that phenomenon-I really hate that word "set" and I hate the word "cast" -it is…

— Gordon Ramsay