Delicate Quote by Gordon Ramsay

All great chefs have two things in common. First, they respect nature as the true artist, and they are just cooks. Second, everything that…

— Marco Pierre White

Very good cooks who are employed as 'chefs' rarely refer to themselves as 'chefs.' They refer to themselves as 'cooks.'

— Alton Brown

Chefs aren't celebrities: they're chefs.

— Elton John

You're getting to know who the great chefs are through their books.

— Thomas Keller

Chefs are leaders in their own little world.

— Eric Ripert

5-star chefs stay cooking in the kitchen but only making that good shit, see the way I'm living they like oh my goodness.

— Mac Miller

Chefs are fond of hyperbole, so they can certainly talk that way. But on the whole, I think they probably have a more open…

— Anthony Bourdain

Chefs are at the end of a long chain of individuals who work hard to feed people. Farmers, beekeepers, bakers, scientists, fishermen, grocers, we…

— Anonymous

I'm in a place where I feel comfortable not being a chef anymore. That's taboo in our industry. 'Chef' is supposed to be the…

— Roy Choi

A lot of chefs are traditional and do it very well. But the ones who are the most successful are the ones who change…

— Wolfgang Puck

There's a freshness to the approach of teen chefs. They're lighthearted, and they're not afraid to take risks.

— Alex Guarnaschelli

I have experience more on the front-of-house side of things, but I've always had a strong reverence and a respect for chefs... they've always…

— Antoni Porowski