Chef Quotes · Page 16

As a chef, I feel that it is my duty to make the most of what the earth gives us.

— Lidia Bastianich

When I wrote my cookbook, 'I Love Crab Cakes,' I asked some of my best chef buddies to contribute recipes.

— Tom Douglas

If I was not an actor, I would have been working in a five star hotel as a chef.

— Dhanush

I actually studied cooking and, like, was thinking about becoming a chef.

— Kehinde Wiley

As a chef, I've always been very conscious and very thoughtful about the way that I buy food or have my farmers…

— Dominique Crenn

If I'm in the 'hood, I like Chef Creole's Haitian rice and stewed chicken.

— DJ Khaled

If I didn't ever model? I would be back in Kansas. I would probably end up being a pastry chef. My grandma…

— Lindsey Wixson

I feel very passionate about maintaining the same level of standard and respect for the food as an Iron Chef myself.

— Alex Guarnaschelli

Like all these women in Hollywood, people don't realize that they work out like six hours a day with a personal trainer…

— Kelly Osbourne

Every chef has his treats. By that, I mean bits and pieces from things you're working on - crusty little cake trimmings,…

— Tom Douglas

I have a chef come in every day and prepare my meals. There is no way I could do the stunt work,…

— Shalita Grant

I think every chef, not just in America, but across the world, has a double-edged sword - two jackets, one that's driven,…

— Gordon Ramsay

Physically, this season of Top Chef was very challenging. We stayed up for 48 hours for the BBQ challenge; we ran around…

— Shirley Chung

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

— Dominique Crenn

It's very hard to be an innovator at the highest level in any discipline. For some chefs it's merely about combining ingredients,…

— Ferran Adria

The night before Tilbury, the Cordon Bleu gourmet dinner turned out Cordon Brown. Six out of ten to the chef for trying…

— Spike Milligan

“A chef’s magic is his ingredients, how he can substitute one for another, then break with convention by changing it all around…

— Karl Wiggins

Something I didn't even know was on my bucket list has been achieved. I have cooked Thanksgiving dinner with Martha Stewart. I…

— Jesse Tyler Ferguson

If you want to be a chef or a scientist, you've got to know what the current thinking is, so if you…

— Dave McKean

I got killed against Morimoto. I brought out white plates with food; I thought that was really nice. He brings out sculptures…

— Geoffrey Zakarian

As a chef and someone who's been in the restaurant business for almost thirty years now, if there's one thing I learned…

— Michael Symon

When I first started writing cookbooks, I remember thinking to myself, what makes me think I can write a cookbook? There are…

— Ina Garten

“Since my earliest memory, I imagined I would be a chef one day. When other kids were watching Saturday morning cartoons or…

— Elizabeth Acevedo

“So who the hell, exactly, are these guys, the boys and girls in the trenches? You might get the impression from the…

— Anthony Bourdain

I'm not a chef, and I'm not an expert at anything. I'm just a mom and a wife.

— Ree Drummond

The margins for restaurants to make money are very, very narrow. It's a tough business, and to be a chef is a…

— Anne Burrell

If I could go back and give myself advice, it would be to embrace failure.

— Mary Sue Milliken

They say never trust a skinny chef, but the fact is, to stay healthy when you're a chef means you have to…

— Marcus Samuelsson

When I was growing up, my grandmother cooked every day. She is the best chef ever.

— Baron Davis

Not every chef is a yeller, but I have to say that even a chef who is not a yeller might have…

— Anne Burrell

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

— Dominique Crenn

In Europe I couldn't be anything but a black cook working for somebody. My inspiration was to own, to be the chef.

— Marcus Samuelsson

As a chef and activist, I'm particularly concerned with food politics issues such as the farm bill.

— Marcus Samuelsson

As a chef I’m not your dietitian or your ethicist, I’m in the pleasure business.

— Anthony Bourdain

For me, the food is most excited in ['Top Chef Mexico'], I get to try it all. My mouth waters just thinking…

— Ana Claudia Talancon

“Having a sous-chef with excellent cooking skills and a criminal mind is one of God's great gifts.”

— Anthony Bourdain

Long Island for me, it's producing more chefs coming out of there than Paris.

— Gordon Ramsay

While you can have the cult of the celebrity chef, the food still must taste good.

— Alvin Leung

For the longest time, chefs and restaurateurs were able to get products home cooks couldn't get, but that's not the case anymore.

— Michael Symon

Generally a chef's book is like a calling card or a portfolio to display their personal work.

— Sally Schneider