Born Quote by Marco Pierre White

My daughter is an amazing cook. Her palate is brilliant.

— Judi Love

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

At heart, 'Chef' is a daddy-daycare fable about an overextended man who teaches his 10-year-old son the family business and learns to love him.

— Richard Corliss

All chefs are like Jewish mothers. They want to feed you and feed you and impress you. It's an eagerness to please.

— Padma Lakshmi

The only person who cooks better than your mother, is her mother

— Charles Elba

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

— Ree Drummond

I do most of the cooking at home, and both my mom and my mother-in-law are excellent chefs. However, I wouldn't call myself a…

— Jen Lilley

Mothers and grandmothers: these are the people that I admire most, not so much chefs.

— Yotam Ottolenghi

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

— Gordon Ramsay

My mother-in-law is an awesome cook, but I have grown up eating the food cooked by my mother. I must say that both of…

— Ashish Vidyarthi

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

— Alton Brown

My palate is simpler than it used to be. A young chef adds and adds and adds to the plate. As you get older,…

— Jacques Pepin