The best way to learn to cook is to do some serious eating. — Alexandra Guarnaschelli Copy Share Image
'Chef' doesn't mean that you're the best cook, it simply means 'boss.' — Tom Colicchio Copy Share Image
I cannot wait to see the day that one day we will have a chef that will become the secretary of food… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I have real admiration for chefs who can maintain an edge and find new inspiration in their cooking after many years. — Daniel Boulud Copy Share Image
During the course of filming 'Top Chef,' I gain 15 lbs., so I'm used to needing two dress sizes. — Padma Lakshmi Copy Share Image
My mum and dad are pretty amazing chefs and they spent most of my childhood cooking really extravagant things for my sister… — Jake Gyllenhaal Copy Share Image
Things are going to go wrong. The great chefs are the ones that don't let it fluster them. They just move through… — Michael Symon Copy Share Image
Bringing your kids into the kitchen doesn't require you to be a top chef; only time and maybe a willingness to get… — Michael Mina Copy Share Image
I love my food and wine; I have tried my hand at being a chef and failed miserably. — Shefali Zariwala Copy Share Image
You can't go into the chef's office of any serious kitchen and not see a copy of Larousse. A must-have for professional… — David Chang Copy Share Image
Over the years, quite a few TV producers proposed that I do a program, but I refused. I didn't want to work… — Ron Ben-Israel Copy Share Image
“A guest chef would come in and shoot five shows in two days. Most had no TV training and little on-camera experience.… — Allen Salkin Copy Share Image
I think in France, for example, we can say whatever we want about the French, but going out and dining is more… — Daniel Boulud Copy Share Image
I had cooked a lot in restaurants, in Rocky Point and on golf courses on Long Island, and my mother said, 'Be… — D. B. Sweeney Copy Share Image
My husband is a vegetarian. So it has really pushed me as a chef. Just thinking about the food that I really… — Damaris Phillips Copy Share Image
I am a chef through and through. Everything I do - whether it is cooking for kids in Harlem or cooking in… — Marcus Samuelsson Copy Share Image
I once had to leave a restaurant to get some air because a family friend sent his compliments to the chef about… — Jamie Demetriou Copy Share Image
As a soccer player, I wanted an FA Cup winner's medal. As an actor you want an Oscar. As a chef it's… — Gordon Ramsay Copy Share Image
“I'm Ukrainian, actually. And I'm making my signature dish," he said slowly, meeting Ibáñez's stare. "More shocking than Rocky Mountain oysters." He… — Daria Lavelle Copy Share Image
Bouillabaisse, this golden soup, this incomparable golden soup which embodies and concentrates all the aromas of our shores and which permeates, like… — Curnonsky Copy Share Image
The level of competition on 'Iron Chef' was very intense. In fact, I feel like the show provides chefs with a stamp… — Maneet Chauhan Copy Share Image
To be asked to do the pairing menus by Alamos Wineries in Argentina [was the most interesting opportunity]. There are so many… — Adam Richman Copy Share Image
I wanted to work in a restaurant. Le Cirque was looking for a chef and they approached me. I was excited to… — Daniel Boulud Copy Share Image
There is often with restaurant reviews in particular, I think, this kind of impulse to be deferential and bow down to the… — Pete Wells Copy Share Image
“Celebrity chefs are the leaders in the field of food, and we are the led. Why should the leaders of chemical businesses… — Charles Clover Copy Share Image
It's very important in a restaurant to really do the right hiring because there's no restaurant that you have one cook and… — Wolfgang Puck Copy Share Image
You wouldn't know it but I'm no good at... cooking. My chef does that. — Carolina Herrera Copy Share Image
I wasn't that great a chef, and I don't think I'm that great a writer. — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
I love food shows: Anthony Bourdain, Iron Chef, Chopped, you name it. — Donnie Wahlberg Copy Share Image