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The entire 'Top Chef' experience was a learning experience. I learned about myself as a competitor, a teammate, a friend, a chef, a mother.

— Antonia Lofaso

It is great to add some glamour to the food industry, like television shows have done for the food world and inspiring people to…

— Curtis Stone

Top Chef is a very smooth-running machine. All the people working there are incredibly professional and absolutely at the top of their game.

— Toby Young

Many of them have accomplished a lot before they ever get to 'Top Chef' although they're not well known. The show just provides them…

— Tom Colicchio

If you want to become a great chef, you have to work with great chefs. And that's exactly what I did.

— Gordon Ramsay

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

— Tom Colicchio

First of all, I can't really claim to be a great chef.

— Martin Yan

When you have a chef that wants to be in the spotlight, maybe after one or two appearances on a show, they think they're…

— Geoffrey Zakarian

I had turned down other head chef jobs. I didn't want to take over someone else's cuisine. I wanted to start from scratch.

— Rene Redzepi

Now everybody thinks that once you do Top Chef, then 13 weeks later you're a chef. Nobody wants to learn to cook anymore.

— Wolfgang Puck

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

— Alton Brown

You look at most of these 'best chef' lists, and there are about nine male chefs and one woman chef. The problem is still…

— Dominique Crenn