Ashamed Quote by Nathan Myhrvold

Cooking is like anything else: some people have an inborn talent for it. Some become expert by practicing, and some learn from books.

— Laurie Colwin

In a time when it is common for chefs to simply reproduce the innovations of others, the few who speak for themselves through their…

— Charlie Trotter

I think for me, as far as cooking, some of it came naturally just from watching my dad. My dad was more of the…

— Joey Fatone

Only when a chef changed the way you saw the world, through cooking, did food truly become art, and that was rare indeed.

— Michael Ruhlman

I'm surprised by the talent I find all over. There are always new chefs who propose many interesting new ideas, new ways of looking…

— Alain Ducasse

Talent in cooking can be described as skill, creativity, your instincts, how do you approach a problem.

— Alvin Leung

The roots of creativity of cooking are hungry people trying to figure out how to take something that's not particularly fresh or tender and…

— Anthony Bourdain

One of the best things about 'The Chefs' Line' has been seeing how these generations-honed recipes fare when they go up against professional ones.

— Melissa Leong

After years of working in professional kitchens, and then spending so much time in a lot of different home kitchens, I realized that there's…

— Curtis Stone

21 years ago when I started cooking, to be a cook meant that you were going to stay in the basement. Being a chef,…

— Rene Redzepi

The biggest thing is education for young chefs and how they should focus on one cuisine rather than trying to imitate too many. It's…

— Daniel Boulud

Cooking is in an honest profession where you cannot hide and let others do the work for you. You have to show up, work…

— Marcus Samuelsson