Dominique Crenn

Eating is an act of activism for me; it's politics.

— Dominique Crenn

I'm keeping positive; I'm a very positive person.

— Dominique Crenn

I always wanted to open a small place.

— Dominique Crenn

My food is about texture and technique.

— Dominique Crenn

I usually like simple food when I'm at home.

— Dominique Crenn

It's rubbish for somebody to say that food is not politics.

— Dominique Crenn

I grew up in France, eating the very best pastries.

— Dominique Crenn

Meat's effect on climate change simply cannot be ignored.

— Dominique Crenn

We see the effects of climate change on food prices and in so many other ways.

— Dominique Crenn

I live in a condo outside of San Francisco, in a town called Larkspur, near a marine area.

— Dominique Crenn

I'm most excited about people being more conscious about their eating habits.

— Dominique Crenn

I think cooks that are just interested in molecular gastronomy are cooks that will never be chefs.

— Dominique Crenn

A restaurant, a small business lives day-by-day. If they're lucky they can make maybe up to 5% profit. That's not a lot.

— Dominique Crenn

Food is what I think about constantly. I love the beauty of this planet.

— Dominique Crenn

I think what we have at Atelier Crenn, which I think is good, is that the basics are very traditional.

— Dominique Crenn

Food is politics. You know, we have one planet. And growing food is, you're using the soil of the planet.

— Dominique Crenn

Obviously, growing up in France, I had foie gras probably when I was two years old. Writing about it and understanding what's…

— Dominique Crenn

You're thinking about a dish, you're thinking about an ingredient, and in many ways, you end up becoming a naked chef in…

— Dominique Crenn

When I started to work in the kitchen, there's not a lot of women that were working and I didn't try to…

— Dominique Crenn

I try not to spend 10 hours in the kitchen when I cook at home for guests. That's why I try to…

— Dominique Crenn

I'm Dominique Crenn. I'm a chef, entrepreneur, artist, poet, human being. I have three restaurants in San Francisco: Atelier Crenn, Bar Crenn…

— Dominique Crenn

I'm talking to a lot of my industry to maybe try to create a guild and coalition where people, when they retire,…

— Dominique Crenn

I'm not trying to be anything other than myself. I appreciate any type of restaurant or cooking, and the main goal is…

— Dominique Crenn

I came to the U.S. in the 1990s. I worked all around, including at Stars, and in 1996, I became the chef…

— Dominique Crenn

So, when I was about eight, I told my mother that I wanted to be a chef - and a police man,…

— Dominique Crenn

At a very young age, I fell in love with the idea of being in a restaurant and being surrounded with people…

— Dominique Crenn

You have so much responsibility because when you're in the kitchen, it's not just food, it's where the food comes from, what…

— Dominique Crenn

Of all the restaurants I visited in my childhood and adolescence, it was Michel Bras that I remembered most vividly and it…

— Dominique Crenn

When I interview people that want to work with us, I often disregard their resume, because a piece of paper, it doesn't…

— Dominique Crenn

Like I say, Michelin is Michelin. It's nice people are recognized, but at the end of the day, the star doesn't define…

— Dominique Crenn

I want people to ask me how I feel about the world, or what is my day about, and ask me a…

— Dominique Crenn

I'm French, I know how to cook.

— Dominique Crenn

I have a big mouth. And I'm not afraid to use it.

— Dominique Crenn

I try to craft a menu that is very welcoming. I like to make vegetables and seafood, and I love to make…

— Dominique Crenn

I'm not even a just a kitchen cook - everything we do has a purpose, and there's meaning to it.

— Dominique Crenn

Being a chef is about feeding people, which is part of the story of all humanity.

— Dominique Crenn

San Francisco needs to become a city where you have late night offerings.

— Dominique Crenn

I just felt very isolated in France, a very bureaucratic place, no space for thinking in a different way, an artist's way.

— Dominique Crenn

I've participated at summits where I was the only chef. I was surrounded with thinkers and writers and innovators.

— Dominique Crenn

I love hi-tech kitchens, but that doesn't necessarily mean full of appliances.

— Dominique Crenn