Chef Quotes · Page 8

“No one became a great cook just by reading the recipes.”

— Amit Kalantri

When you give someone an award and you tell them that they are the best female chef in the world, you alienate…

— Dominique Crenn

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

— Zac Posen

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

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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

— Daniel Boulud

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

— Guy Fieri

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

— Jose Garces

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

— Stephanie Izard

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

I don't want to do panel games or adverts. I really like challenges. I always get roles as an art teacher or…

— Dylan Moran

Cooking is for chefs. Science informs us and lets us cook while knowing what we are doing, but it is not a…

— Nathan Myhrvold

Shows like 'Top Chef,' 'Hell's Kitchen' have helped bring attention to the culinary world on a whole, but you have to be…

— Geoffrey Zakarian

I don't like food that's too carefully arranged; it makes me think that the chef is spending too much time arranging and…

— Andy Rooney

I wasn't manufactured. I was cut from the cloth of the very old world of gastronomy. There was no such thing as…

— Marco Pierre White

The pressure, the heat, the almost impossibly fast pace at which you need work - this is the reality of working in…

— Joe Bastianich

Cookbooks have all become baroque and very predictable. I'm looking for something different. A lot of chefs' cookbooks are food as it's…

— Mario Batali

I have great empathy for all the contestants that come on 'Top Chef,' whether they go home right away or they make…

— Padma Lakshmi

“That was certainly a case of snowballing momentum. Who would've thought he'd succeed being that far behind?" "True. This particular assignment was…

— Yuto Tsukuda

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

— Tahir Shah

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

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

First,” he said, coming behind me and placing his hands on the counter, just outside of mine, “choose your tomato.” He dipped…

— Becca Fitzpatrick

“There are divisions between a culinary chef and a dessert chef, also called a pastry chef. At Zomick's are specializations within the…

— Ron Ben-Israel

“Now I know why I had that dream last night. It was a premonition forewarning me of the death of my cooking…

— Katie Mattie

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

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

— Mandy Rose

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

— Keith Floyd

“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

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

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

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

“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

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

— Alice Waters

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

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

— Tyga

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

— Ranveer Brar

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

— Ming-Na Wen

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

— Rene Redzepi

If my last supper was ever going to be cooked by a chef, it would have to be Thomas Keller.

— Gordon Ramsay