Chef Quotes · Page 9

I do a little bit of everything... kind of like being a chef on the court.

— Andre Iguodala

As a chef, I got into this because I love the creative energy and I love the science, but I also love…

— Christina Tosi

A chef is a mixture maybe of artistry and craft. You have to learn the craft really to get there.

— Wolfgang Puck

I always loved cooking, from an early age. I kind of wanted to be a chef.

— Caleb Followill

TV is a deformed vision, an excessive caricature. A chef has to stay an artisan, not become a star.

— Alain Ducasse

Don't take a butcher's advice on how to cook meat. If he knew, he'd be a chef.

— Andy Rooney

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

— Alton Brown

Only when a chef changed the way you saw the world, through cooking, did food truly become art, and that was rare…

— Michael Ruhlman

Because I'm so known as a meat-chef, when I talk about Meatless Monday some people look at me like I've lost my…

— Michael Symon

I studied to be a chef as a side thing, a little hobby that I enjoyed doing, but I ended up falling…

— Kelis

I think what I do differently from a lot of TV chefs is that I break down barriers and make fine food…

— Ted Allen

I became a vegetarian in 1995. I had some fried chicken, and my teeth hit the bone. My mind said, 'Dead bird,…

— Rza

You don't go to school to become the best chef in the world right after you graduate. School is always a starting…

— Roy Yamaguchi

I think that the stigmas against model-actresses - and even just, like, entertainer, celebrity chef, and musician - those kinds of walls…

— Emily Ratajkowski

I sometimes think the chef end of cooking is not the real end of cooking. Cooking is all about homes and gardens,…

— Delia Smith

I spend so much time in Los Angeles and normally stay at a corporate apartment when shooting 'Top Chef: Just Desserts,' but…

— Gail Simmons

To the chefs who pioneered the nouvelle cuisine in France, the ancienne cuisine they were rebelling against looked timeless, primordial, old as…

— Raymond Sokolov

“When they heard that someone was full figured and liked cooking & eating, most men imagined someone who was quiet and domestic;…

— Asako Yuzuki

My job the same as carpenter. What kind of house you want to build? What kind of food you want to make?…

— Masa Takayama

It's a life choice to be a girl chef, as it is to be a boy chef. It feels pretty natural to…

— Anne Burrell

In playwriting, you've got to be able to write dialogue. And if you write enough of it and let it flow enough,…

— David Mamet

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

— Ferran Adria

I got involved through the director of the show [Top Chef], he's a director of films in Mexico; I worked with him…

— Ana Claudia Talancon

Celebrating the holidays in the White House over these past eight years has been a true privilege. We've been able to welcome…

— Michelle Obama

I decided to do something I've been wanting to do for a long time - go get a chef and a nutritionist…

— Deontay Wilder

Close interaction with farmers and scientists can expose the chef to new flavours that can be used to delight diners.

— Rene Redzepi

The fact is I never intended to be a chef. After Oxford University I had this weird idea of running a nightclub.

— Rick Stein

As a chef, I love to travel and taste different cuisine styles and different flavours.

— Jock Zonfrillo

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

— Guy Fieri

Two key ingredients in any successful chef: a quick learner and someone with a sharp brain.

— Gordon Ramsay

I always say that I don't believe I'm a chef. I try to be a storyteller.

— Anonymous

Every man has his destiny. But who needs to go to a fortune-teller to find it? Do I go to a chef…

— Arthur Golden

Maybe one of the only things I do well: I cook like a maniac! I would be a chef if I weren't…

— Ian Somerhalder

It's quite weird knocking that out of them and telling them to forget cooking for chefs; forget what chefs say about your…

— Gordon Ramsay

As a chef, a mom, and a member of Team No Kid Hungry, I believe that every child deserves three meals a…

— Alex Guarnaschelli

Chef cookin for me They say my shoe game crazy The mental asylum lookin for me

— Nicki Minaj

I'm an American chef. I'm American. I live here. I love being here. But, of course, it is different. A black man's…

— Marcus Samuelsson

Food's delicate. You have to handle it with finesse. You can't just be a big ogre.

— April Bloomfield

Do we really require so many gardening programmes, makeover programmes or celebrity chefs?

— David Attenborough

I didn't harbor a huge desire to become a chef until I graduated from college.

— Alex Guarnaschelli