Tom Colicchio Quotes

I think steak is the ultimate comfort food, and if you're going out for one, that isn't the time to scrimp on calories or quality.

A steak needs fat to taste great.

Recipes tell you nothing. Learning techniques is the key.

I call all chefs cooks. They're all cooks. That's what we do, we cook. You're a chef when you're running a kitchen.

Every chef should have an understanding of pastries or desserts.

I know from personal experience, if a chef yelled at me in a kitchen, the first thing I'd want to do is hit them with a pot.

I think the most effective way to run a kitchen is to teach, not to just yell.

In an ideal world for me, school lunch would be free for everybody.

I hate okra and grated mountain yam for the same reason. They're both slimy.

Once you have your basics down, you can start breaking the rules.

One of the first jobs I ever had was opening clams in a seafood restaurant, so I'm pretty quick at it.

Mushrooms can be very fancy. It's the closest you can get to eating dirt.

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

You have to know the classics if you want to cook modern food.

Men with shaved heads are always better. Just ask my wife.

I'd like to see 'Top Chef: Amateur'. Sometimes we have an amateur chef on the show and they just can't cut it against the pros but there are some great stories there.

Too often, chefs just want to experiment - they want to use liquid nitrogen before they know how to use heat.

I don't really like money - I like the things you can buy with money.

I think the patterns are set very early when the kids are young. But at the same time, there are some flavors kids just don't like.

I know nothing about hip-hop... There's only so many times you can grab your crotch and prance around stage. I'm gonna get slammed now for this.

I get angry when I think that people are blatantly incorrect on matters of fact.

I can't deliver lines, but I can talk about food all night long.

I can't deal with a lot of spice but I have to eat it. I pay the price - I'm on medication for heartburn, so that's how I deal with it.

I have very good knife skills. I learned to butcher on my second job - I was 18 years old. Every other day we would break down six legs of veal.

Every season we try to do something new. And not for gimmicks. We feel the show has to evolve and keep changing.

A lot of professions happen to be male-dominated because women drop out at a certain point. It's unfortunate.

In New York, I'll walk down the street and someone will say, 'Nice show,' and that's it. If I'm at a food festival, it's open season.

People are not hungry because we dont produce enough. People are hungry for political reasons.

I know how to make sausage, and now that I've seen how laws are made, I'll stick with sausage.