Bother Quote by Heston Blumenthal

Chefs are nutters. They're all self-obsessed, delicate, dainty, insecure little souls and absolute psychopaths. Every last one of them.

— Gordon Ramsay

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

I call all chefs 'cooks.' They're all cooks. That's what we do, we cook. You're a chef when you're running a kitchen.

— Tom Colicchio

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

I kind of do not like the word chef. Chef, giving you a sense of hierarchy and power. To be a good cook and…

— Dominique Crenn

You can call me the bad boy chef all you want. I'm not going to freak out about it. I'm not that bad. I'm…

— Anthony Bourdain

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

— Alton Brown

Today there are very few chefs at that high level who are behind their stoves. You don't feel their presence within the room. Where's…

— Marco Pierre White

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

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

Not every chef is a yeller, but I have to say that even a chef who is not a yeller might have a time…

— Anne Burrell

I just think that we show an awful lot of deference to chefs in our culture and maybe not enough deference to customers.

— Pete Wells