Chef Quote by Gok Wan

I started cooking when I was 18 years old, and now I have restaurants all over the world.

— Nobu Matsuhisa

I was hired as a sous-chef at a restaurant on the Upper East Side. The chef liked to drink - some mornings we would…

— Bobby Flay

I used to be a chef.

— Roy Choi

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

— Dominique Crenn

My mom was a great cook so I always wanted to eat and make stuff. I did cooking in 4-H but it wasn't until…

— Anne Burrell

You know, my parents had a restaurant. And I left home, actually, in 1949, when I was 13 years old, to go into apprenticeship.…

— Jacques Pepin

Growing up, my mom had a catering business. I used to help her pretty early on and loved doing it. My mom is an…

— Kelis

I was always a good cook from my mum showing me when I was a young lad, but hiring a chef helped me to…

— Ross Barkley

I worked in restaurants the first half of my life.

— Bradley Cooper

Out of culinary school, I worked as a pastry cook in amazing restaurants for years. I ended up leaving the pastry cook scene because,…

— Christina Tosi

I was surrounded by all different styles of cooking and worked in the food service industry in just about every capacity you can imagine.

— Rachael Ray

When I left restaurants, I had to learn to be a home cook.

— Samin Nosrat