Audience Quote by Ron Ben-Israel

I just think that we show an awful lot of deference to chefs in our culture and maybe not enough deference to customers.

— Pete Wells

I've always believed that pastry chefs are born, not made. They're patient, methodical, tidy, and organized. It's why I stick to the savory side…

— Samin Nosrat

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

— Gordon Ramsay

The person who's receiving the food cooks as much as the chef. They have a very important role to play... There's no other activity…

— Ferran Adria

In general, cooks like to be in the kitchen and they don't really interact with others.

— Dominique Crenn

Chefs are fond of hyperbole, so they can certainly talk that way. But on the whole, I think they probably have a more open…

— Anthony Bourdain

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

— Alton Brown

Today there are very few chefs at that high level who are behind their stoves. You don't feel their presence within the room. Where's…

— Marco Pierre White

Chefs get sucked into the trap of 'fine dining' because some guides make it central to their ratings system and because some customers have…

— John Lanchester

Because I've done a lot of television, I'm sort of a generalist. I'm not a pastry cook, but I've had to learn a certain…

— Julia Child

As chefs, we cook to please people, to nourish people.

— Jose Andres

A lot of chefs are traditional and do it very well. But the ones who are the most successful are the ones who change…

— Wolfgang Puck