Cooking Quote by Jacques Torres

I worked from 12 to 17, six years in a bakery. I was a pastry cook.

— Adam Giles

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

— Nobu Matsuhisa

I started cooking 30-something years ago. When I was 14, 15, I was a short-order cook in a snack bar. That was at a…

— Tom Colicchio

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

I started cooking when I was about 10. I have memories like when I was 6 or 7 with my mom, and when I…

— Emeril Lagasse

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

I liked to screw around in the kitchen when I was a kid. But I started cooking when I was 15.

— Michael Mina

I was brought up in a restaurant, I've worked in catering my whole life up until I was 20 full-time almost, I was a…

— Gok Wan

I could cook from quite an early age - purely because I liked it.

— Jamie Oliver

I left school when I was 14 to work in kitchens.

— Wolfgang Puck

When I was 14 years old, I decided I could cook. It was either that or puberty.

— Dom DeLuise

I started preparing meals for my family when I was 12 because both of my parents worked, but I didn't know that it was…

— Ayesha Curry