City Quote by Andrew Zimmern

Ultimately, I realized that in order to write about food you need to understand everything about cooking, so I moved to New York and…

— Gail Simmons

I went to culinary school to eat.

— Christina Tosi

All the great chefs I know - Thomas Keller, Jean-Georges Vongerichten - they are technicians first.

— Jacques Pepin

I took a Chinatown bus to New York to enroll in the International Culinary Center's pastry program.

— Christina Tosi

Chef Thomas Keller was an inspiration to me and many, many young cooks like me. He told us that the role of the new,…

— David Chang

Way back in the day, I used to cook for Thomas Keller at Rakel in New York City. Keller is a down to earth,…

— Andrew Zimmern

So I quit my job and went to the New England Culinary Institute for the full two years and worked in the restaurant industry…

— Alton Brown

I found most of my learning has taken place after culinary college, when I travelled and met chefs and non-chefs.

— Ranveer Brar

I was surrounded by all different styles of cooking and worked in the food service industry in just about every capacity you can imagine.

— Rachael Ray

I worked as a breakfast cook in a lot of different restaurants.

— Mark Lanegan

When I graduated from cooking school, I went to work at Stars, which was one of my favorite restaurants in the country at the…

— Steve Ells

I studied cooking all through high school.

— Liam Hemsworth