Chef Quote by 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 chef: I'm a cook.

— Frankie Avalon

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

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

— Tom Colicchio

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'm not a chef. I think in this country, we use the term very loosely. I'm a cook and a teacher.”

— Julia Child

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

Chefs are at the end of a long chain of individuals who work hard to feed people. Farmers, beekeepers, bakers, scientists, fishermen, grocers, we…

— Anonymous

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

When we talk about chefs, we often talk about their love of food or their passion for it, but cooking is also about making…

— Alex Guarnaschelli

I'm not a chef. I haven't created any new technique in the kitchen. I'm not a rocket scientist. I think I'm good at writing…

— Rachael Ray

Cooking is for chefs. Science informs us and lets us cook while knowing what we are doing, but it is not a replacement for…

— Nathan Myhrvold