Chef Quote by Alton Brown

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

All great chefs have two things in common. First, they respect nature as the true artist, and they are just cooks. Second, everything that…

— Marco Pierre White

'Chef' doesn't mean that you're the best cook, it simply means 'boss.'

— Tom Colicchio

Chefs are nutters. They're all self-obsessed, delicate, dainty, insecure little souls and absolute psychopaths. Every last one of them.

— Gordon Ramsay

I do most of the cooking at home, and both my mom and my mother-in-law are excellent chefs. However, I wouldn't call myself a…

— Jen Lilley

I kind of do not like the word chef. Chef, giving you a sense of hierarchy and power. To be a good cook and…

— Dominique Crenn

“I'm not a chef. I think in this country, we use the term very loosely. I'm a cook and a teacher.”

— Julia Child

Chefs aren't celebrities: they're chefs.

— Elton John

I'm not a chef: I'm a cook.

— Frankie Avalon

Chef means boss and in France you get an office chef and you get a chef on a building site, etc. So I'm a…

— Paul Rankin

You're getting to know who the great chefs are through their books.

— Thomas Keller

I am not a chef. I am not even a trained or professional cook. My qualification is as an eater.

— Nigella Lawson