Chefs Quote by Daniel Boulud

Modern cookbooks are marketing tools for chefs. They're in the bestseller lists but no one cooks from them.

— Prue Leith

For the longest time, chefs and restaurateurs were able to get products home cooks couldn't get, but that's not the case anymore.

— Michael Symon

After years of working in professional kitchens, and then spending so much time in a lot of different home kitchens, I realized that there's…

— Curtis Stone

Taking dishes straight off the restaurant's menu and putting them into a cookbook doesn't work, because as a chef you have your own vision…

— Marcus Samuelsson

Don't put too many chefs to work. Sometimes they get too involved in the ingredients and are of no help.

— Anonymous

If you want to be a home cook, just have fun with it. Pick up a couple cookbooks. You're gonna make some mistakes; just…

— Anne Burrell

A cookbook is not like being an author. It's writing down recipes; it's not writing.

— Grant Achatz

Professional kitchens are studied to cook for countless people. At home, design often wins over functionality. A restaurant must be functional.

— Dominique Crenn

People complain that chefs aren't at their restaurants anymore, but I don't think that's the case at all. You see them on TV and…

— Michael Symon

A lot of cookbooks also have incredible food writing, even though I feel like a lot of cookbook authors don't necessarily identify with being…

— Michelle Zauner

A home cook who relies too much on a recipe is sort of like a pilot who reads the plane's instruction manual while flying.

— Alton Brown

Nowadays, everyone writes a cookbook. Models, singers, whatever, everybody thinks that they can do it and cook on TV. What they don't understand is…

— Gino D'Acampo