Chefs Quotes · Page 3

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

— Gordon Ramsay

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

— Dominique Crenn

It's great that Mary Berry got a primetime TV show, but I don't think there are enough women chefs on TV.

— Rachel Khoo

The problem is that there is many great chefs and many great cookbooks, but none of them work at home.

— Daniel Boulud

There are so many impassioned winemakers. I think there are more impassioned winemakers than chefs.

— Alain Ducasse

We need representation of different chefs, as well as different foods.

— Sohla El-Waylly

I don't know any group of professionals that mobilize as fast and as often as chefs do when there are people who…

— Anonymous

I love chicken. But, like a lot of chefs and cooks, I get tired of preparing it the same way.

— Marcus Samuelsson

I have my idols like Julia Child, Jacques Pepin, and those chefs that really forged the way in Americas understanding of food.…

— Paul Wahlberg

I'm surprised by the talent I find all over. There are always new chefs who propose many interesting new ideas, new ways…

— Alain Ducasse

It's very important to me that people who are actual chefs and other professionals in the culinary world, understand that I'm not,…

— Ted Allen

You walk into a restaurant when chefs are not there and it's different. The magic isn't there. Why pay top pounds when…

— Marco Pierre White

Tempura chefs are sort of like the Jedi of the cooking world: They must deftly perform with the utmost skill and precision,…

— J. Kenji Lopez-Alt

If you go to chefs all across America and ask them, 'What's your biggest problem right now?,' It is finding people to…

— Anthony Bourdain

The popularity of the Internet and using it as an available resource has really changed the way chefs kind of gather information…

— Grant Achatz

How many chefs do we know that prefer cooking for chefs than they do customers, yet customers are returning repeatedly and it's…

— Gordon Ramsay

Our clients wanted the restaurant experience, not their mother's buffet dinner - so we reached out to that world and hired a…

— David Castle

I remember in the first season going, 'This is retarded. I can't believe they're making chefs do this.' But then it actually…

— Tom Colicchio

Cooking is work that is traditionally done by working-class people. The work itself is not glamorous. It's repetitive, and it's a lot…

— Anthony Bourdain

The stressful part of that is that you're not a chef. People who have learnt to be chefs have spent years in…

— Jayne Middlemiss

I think a lot of chefs can definitely think about great flavor combinations and stuff, but then they'll pass it along to…

— Stephanie Izard

Chefs hate desserts. The smartest thing a chef can do is hire a great pastry chef. Cooking savory food is all about…

— Michael Symon

I'd love to cook. It's something I've got into since I've grown older. I'm mates with Jamie Oliver and he's been a…

— Jason Flemyng

In the past few years, we've been doing amazing stuff with desserts. Pastry chefs have been using herbs and spices in their…

— Ron Ben-Israel

I spent time at my grandfather Dino's gourmet store where he brought in chefs from Naples to cook. I thought of them…

— Giada De Laurentiis

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

— Guy Fieri

I've discovered the burger is a crazy thing in Vegas, but I was one of the early chefs to do a lot…

— Daniel Boulud

HGTV design folks and chefs are exactly the same people. One designs, the other cooks - that's the only difference.

— Antonia Lofaso

5-star chefs stay cooking in the kitchen but only making that good shit, see the way I'm living they like oh my…

— Mac Miller

I've always said that I think females make the best chefs anywhere in the world.

— Gordon Ramsay

I like that talented chefs are able to keep coming up with new ways of preparing food - it really is an…

— Lisa Hanawalt

I have real admiration for chefs who can maintain an edge and find new inspiration in their cooking after many years.

— Daniel Boulud

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

“Sometimes I get so sucked into the drama here, I can’t remember what’s real and what’s foreplay between two insane chefs.”

— Rachel Higginson

I call all chefs 'cooks.' They're all cooks. That's what we do, we cook. You're a chef when you're running a kitchen.

— Tom Colicchio

I have always been fascinated by chefs and I make it a point to meet them at all the hotels I visit.

— Anoop Menon

Some chefs go crazy with one restaurant, and if I had 20, I would go nuts.

— Eric Ripert

There really is a camaraderie among chefs and a willingness to help out whenever we can.

— Rocco DiSpirito

I just love it when the chefs start to gain in confidence and it gets really exciting.

— Monica Galetti

You see fewer and fewer chefs who are really big - most stay in shape.

— Wolfgang Puck