Chef Quote by Anthony Bourdain

I just think that we show an awful lot of deference to chefs in our culture and maybe not enough deference to customers.

— Pete Wells

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

— Gordon Ramsay

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

Very good cooks who are employed as 'chefs' rarely refer to themselves as 'chefs.' They refer to themselves as 'cooks.'

— Alton Brown

It's quite weird knocking that out of them and telling them to forget cooking for chefs; forget what chefs say about your food.

— Gordon Ramsay

I have experience more on the front-of-house side of things, but I've always had a strong reverence and a respect for chefs... they've always…

— Antoni Porowski

Cooks must feed their egos as well as their customers.

— M. F. K. Fisher

“AB: I think great chefs evolve that balance between what they themselves can bring, creatively and technically. The great chefs understand human desire. They…

— David Blum

One of the best things about 'The Chefs' Line' has been seeing how these generations-honed recipes fare when they go up against professional ones.

— Melissa Leong

Pastry chefs are very particular people - we like a controlled environment; we don't like an audience.

— Ron Ben-Israel

In a time when it is common for chefs to simply reproduce the innovations of others, the few who speak for themselves through their…

— Charlie Trotter

In general, cooks like to be in the kitchen and they don't really interact with others.

— Dominique Crenn