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My mom is a self-taught home cook, so books that offer guidelines on how to organize menus are critical to 'cook from the book'…

— Alex Guarnaschelli

I often write into recipes techniques that I learned in the restaurant kitchen. There are ways of organizing your prep and so on that…

— Sally Schneider

Read a recipe twice, weigh all the ingredients out before you start so that you don't forget something and start with a clean kitchen.

— John Whaite

That being said, I often write into recipes techniques I learned in the restaurant kitchen. There are ways of organizing your prep and so…

— Sally Schneider

Most of my recipes start life in the domestic kitchen, and even those that start out in the restaurant kitchen have to go through…

— Yotam Ottolenghi

A friend of mine had a private kitchen that was available and it was an inexpensive way of starting a restaurant and testing whether…

— Alvin Leung

Everyone could use instructions on every aspect of cooking: pantry, storage, refrigeration, cooking, what to buy. Everyone that I come into contact with could…

— Geoffrey Zakarian

For me, whether it's in a book or on T.V., a recipe has to be simple. I have a short attention span, so to…

— Al Roker

I can put together a pretty decent meal from whatever happens to be in the refrigerator and the pantry. I like the challenge of…

— Chang-Rae Lee

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

I wanted to do a project that was seamless and had all the ingredients from start to finish, from conception to mixing and mastering.

— Philip Bailey

I went straight from college into restaurants, so, from the beginning, my idea of what a kitchen should be was the highfalutin' restaurant type…

— Samin Nosrat