Chef Quotes

371 quotes by 204 authors

To be tempted and indulged by the city's most brilliant chefs. It's the dream of every one of us in love with food. — Gael Greene
I always say this to the young chefs and mean it: The customer is excited, he says you are an artist, but we are not,… — Andre Soltner
Just like if you were brought up on a farm, you would most likely carry on your father's business as a farmer; I was brought… — Martin Yan
First of all, I can't really claim to be a great chef. — Martin Yan
Male egos require constant stroking. Every task is an achievement, every success epic. That is why women cook, but men are chefs: we make cheese… — Belle de Jour
Nine out of ten English chefs have their names on their chests. Who do they think they are? They're dreamers. They're jokes. Just ask yourself… — Marco Pierre White
Mostly I enjoy the restaurants (my husband is a chef), though I wish we had a wider diversity of ethnic food. — Poppy Z. Brite
Collectively the media; the meat, oil, and dairy industries; most prominent chefs and cookbook authors; and our own government are not presenting accurate advice about… — Caldwell Esselstyn
I sometimes think the chef end of cooking is not the real end of cooking. Cooking is all about homes and gardens, it doesn't happen… — Delia Smith
The first thing Julian wanted to do in life, well, before he wanted to be an artist and then a musician, was to be a… — Cynthia Lennon
When helicopters were snatching people from the grounds of the American embassy compound during the panic of the final Vietcong push into Saigon, I was… — Calvin Trillin
Sauces comprise the honor and glory of French cookery. They have contributed to its superiority, or pre-eminence, which is disputed by none. Sauces are the… — Curnonsky
The chef has kids complaining to their parents the food they get in school is better than what they get at home. He's turned this… — Marion Nestle
If I walk into a place, a party, say, and there's a bookshelf, I immediately gravitate toward it. Unless there's a bar. But even then,… — Jonathan Evison
In normal life, 'simplicity' is synonymous with 'easy to do,' but when a chef uses the word, it means 'takes a lifetime to learn.' — Bill Buford
Don't take a butcher's advice on how to cook meat. If he knew, he'd be a chef. — Andy Rooney
It's very hard to be an innovator at the highest level in any discipline. For some chefs it's merely about combining ingredients, but that's something… — Ferran Adria
I think every chef should have a food truck. It's a good way to test the markets, to invest in meeting the future restaurant goers. — Jose Andres
News networks giving a greater voice to viewers because the social web is so popular are like a chef on the Titanic who, seeing the… — Randall Munroe
The better the ingredients, the more farmers I can buy from, the closer I feel to the food I want to make that represents what… — Alexandra Guarnaschelli

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