Attempting Quote by Grant Achatz

Whatever it is you're doing, whether it's your career or a particular focus, if you're trying to be the best you can possibly be,…

— Grant Achatz

I wish that food trucks could exist here in Chicago like they do in Brooklyn and in New York, where you're actually cooking off…

— Grant Achatz

My father would always tell me that creativity didn't matter at the diner. When I was probably 14 or 15, I would put -…

— Grant Achatz

My personality was always such that I always look straight forward, never behind or to the side.

— Grant Achatz

My home kitchen is airy, with a gas stove, a stainless-steel island table in the center and granite countertops. It's very modest but there's…

— Grant Achatz

We all eat two to six times a day. Why? Because we are supposed to, we are programmed to, we want to.

— Grant Achatz

It's not really the life of cooking that's hard - it's what you make of it and what level you push yourself to.

— Grant Achatz

I always knew I wanted to be a chef.

— Grant Achatz

Food can be expressive and therefore food can be art

— Grant Achatz

If I had one piece of advice for people - if they are cooking from the Alinea cookbook, the Betty Crocker cookbook or the…

— Grant Achatz

There are about 700 flavors that you can smell, but only five you can taste. A lot of times what you're perceiving as flavor…

— Grant Achatz

Alinea is not the type of restaurant where you go if you're in a hurry. Really, it's about enjoying that three-hour block of time…

— Grant Achatz