Am Quote by Aaron Sanchez

I moved to Louisiana to become the executive Chef at Commander's Place. And I must say I had some encouragement from friends such as…

— Emeril Lagasse

My grandfather was a chef for a Baron in Sicily before he came to America. I grew up with him. I used to do…

— Vincent Schiavelli

I always wanted to be a chef. Flavors and food were always of interest to me, but it was how those things brought friends…

— Maneet Chauhan

I was brought up in a restaurant, I've worked in catering my whole life up until I was 20 full-time almost, I was a…

— Gok Wan

My mother and my grandmother are pioneers of Mexican cuisine in this country, so I grew up in the kitchen. My mom, Zarela Martinez,…

— Aaron Sanchez

I came to the U.S. in the 1990s. I worked all around, including at Stars, and in 1996, I became the chef of Yoyo…

— Dominique Crenn

I used to be a chef.

— Roy Choi

My Mum was the main reason why I became a chef. She influenced all of my family to feel free in the kitchen -…

— Ainsley Harriott

I was surrounded by all different styles of cooking and worked in the food service industry in just about every capacity you can imagine.

— Rachael Ray

In '71 or '72 I returned to New Orleans and stayed there. I started cooking Louisiana food. Of all the things I had cooked,…

— Paul Prudhomme

When I graduated from cooking school, I went to work at Stars, which was one of my favorite restaurants in the country at the…

— Steve Ells

I grew up in San Diego with immigrant parents, before the food blogs, before this kind of celebrity chef culture we know now.

— Samin Nosrat