Chef Quote by Julia Child

I'm not a chef: I'm a cook.

— Frankie Avalon

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

'Chef' doesn't mean that you're the best cook, it simply means 'boss.'

— Tom Colicchio

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

— Alton Brown

“I'm not a journalist any longer,” I told him. “I'm a chef!”

— Jacques Pauw

As a young manager, I had no idea what it meant to be a chef.

— Roy Choi

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

I'm not a chef, and I'm not an expert at anything. I'm just a mom and a wife.

— Ree Drummond

Chef means boss and in France you get an office chef and you get a chef on a building site, etc. So I'm a…

— Paul Rankin

I am not a chef. I am not even a trained or professional cook. My qualification is as an eater.

— Nigella Lawson

“Chefing is like real life — you never finish learning...”

— Marcel Riemer

A chef is a mixture maybe of artistry and craft. You have to learn the craft really to get there.

— Wolfgang Puck