Cooking Quote by 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

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 opened my own restaurant when I was 17. I went broke, then traveled around the country, learning about different kinds of foods, had…

— Paul Prudhomme

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

— Michael Mina

I always loved cooking, from an early age. I kind of wanted to be a chef.

— Caleb Followill

I started cooking around 9 years old. I would make crepes at home for my parents. By 15 years old, I had started my…

— Jacques Torres

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

— Wolfgang Puck

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

I was always a good cook from my mum showing me when I was a young lad, but hiring a chef helped me to…

— Ross Barkley

When I left restaurants, I had to learn to be a home cook.

— Samin Nosrat

I was 18 when I first started working at a restaurant. I was a dishwasher. I only got the job because I wanted to…

— Ferran Adria