Chef Quote by Anthony Bourdain

Chef: Any cook who swears in French.

— Henry Beard

I had decided I wanted to write about food, and I knew the only way to do that is to speak with authority, which…

— Gail Simmons

In recent years, I've been writing because I'm fortunate enough to work in the world of food television, to travel and taste and learn…

— Ted Allen

“Today, of course, popular culture is on a culinary binge; and so much personal writing is now devoted to gazing back upon the kitchen…

— Laura Shapiro

I loved the secret language of stupid fancy restaurants: I knew the question 'How do you want that cooked?' is actually rhetorical and you…

— Grace Dent

I became a cook so I could cook and tell stories in wacky ways.

— Alton Brown

My parents both worked full-time flipping burgers at the local fast-food joint, and my grandmother looked after us. English was her second language, so…

— Kameron Hurley

I wrote a mad, passionate letter to the best restaurant in the UK, Le Gavroche in London, and asked if I could work for…

— Paul Rankin

I'm a little old-school in that I think there's some value in the classics and the steps of achieving a certain profession. If we…

— Roy Choi

The thing I liked about writing about food when I started it was that I felt I was writing about food in a different…

— Nigella Lawson

I really try to write as an ordinary person would, not as someone who's too sophisticated about food, or too knowledgeable about things.

— Michael Pollan

When I started as a young chef, I was Italian, and I was a woman, and everyone else in New York was French and…

— Lidia Bastianich