Chef Quotes

Fame hurt. People thought I was a sellout chef and stopped coming to my restaurant.

I would have thought you'd import an English staff?" "Good heavens, no! I would not wish a British chef on anyone except the French tax collectors.

Do we really require so many gardening programmes, makeover programmes or celebrity chefs?

The design of a restaurant should embrace the identity of the chef, the nature of the cuisine, and the context of the restaurant itself.

I love food shows: Anthony Bourdain, Iron Chef, Chopped, you name it.

Chefs aren't celebrities: they're chefs.

I'm not a trained chef, so I end up making stuff up. It either turns out brilliant or an absolute disaster. I just go for it.

At 15, I had to choose a vocational school, and I was delighted, of course, to go to culinary school. But learning the basics was not as exciting as being the chef I am today.

There's not a single chef I know of that does not think about the politics of the food they're serving.

Everybody these days wants to be a star, including myself. Don't get me wrong, I'm a chef but you want to market yourself and your projects.

The midfield are like a chef, trying to prise open a stubborn oyster to get at the fleshy meat inside.

Pressure's healthy. It becomes stressful when you can't handle that. I mean, if you don't want to become pressurized in this environment, then don't be a chef.

To have 95% of the ingredients sourced, food and wine, within 100 miles radius, that's a dream come true for any chef.

I suppose more than anything, chefs have gotten better, which is great news, which makes my life a lot easier. I can be a lot more creative in terms of the menu.

[Molecular gastronomy] was a great trend, because it experimented with food. The benchmark was [former elBulli head chef] Ferran Adrià, and now he is no longer there it is harder to gauge.

I love eating out. I don't deny that. But I don't want 12 or 15 courses because the chef wants me to taste this or taste that. I just want to be able to decide.

[Eva Braun] would also refer to [Adolf Hitler] as "the boss" (der Chef), but she never called him "Adolf" or "Adi" to anyone after the very early days. It was always der Führer.

Obsolescence is the key to innovation.

All the great chefs I know - Thomas Keller, Jean-Georges Vongerichten - they are technicians first.

My mother likes what I cook, but doesn't think it's French. My wife is Puerto Rican and Cuban, so I eat rice and beans. We have a place in Mexico, but people think I'm the quintessential French chef.

I did all the Chef Boyardee commercials, in America, when I was young.

My grandmother was a chef, and she taught me to cook. One day I want a restaurant, a small Italian grill. Thats my aspiration.

A chef who doesn't wash his hands is like a cop who steals. It's a cry for help.

I love Gossip Girl. I used to hang out with Blake Lively and Jessica Szohr. I'm also addicted to Bravo and reality shows like Top Chef.

I have a Madonna portrait done in the style of a Russian icon. My mother, the chef Lidia Bastianich, and I bought it together. It reminds me of her.

I became friends with a lot of chefs. I was a judge on 'Top Chef' last year. It was a dream come true.

'The chef on duty will constantly point out the time, name the next project, and finish with 'push!' The entire team then calls it back. It is a simple one, but it gives me goosebumps every time.

Chicago is a lot of my background as a chef.

I love The Golden Girls. I've watched recently, and it's sort of insane there's a chef that they're always referring to as "fancy" - the pilot's kind of a mess.

I actually studied cooking and, like, was thinking about becoming a chef.

Just so [becoming a chef ] that I could support my art habit. You know? I mean, this is - this is something where you've been literally given an opportunity to put the world on pause for a second.

As a chef, if I can taste something, I can basically figure out whats in it.

I studied to be a chef as a side thing, a little hobby that I enjoyed doing, but I ended up falling madly in love with the food and the lifestyle.

This is April," he said, holding up the chicken. "She's the only friend I have left. I saved her from an evil chef at Tavern on the Green, and we've pledged eternal friendship.

Even growing up, I was always the helper-outer, the sous-chef to my parents.

You need to know your craft.

Both my partner and I did not get into cooking so that we could wear ugly chef's coats and stuff. We dress sexy in the kitchen.

In Europe I couldn't be anything but a black cook working for somebody. My inspiration was to own, to be the chef.

People come up to me all the time and ask how I stay the way I am, and it's no secret. The first lesson a chef needs to learn is how to handle a knife; the second is how to be around all that food.

The chef has kids complaining to their parents the food they get in school is better than what they get at home. He's turned this group of kids into curious, adventurous eaters.

A lot of people call me a celebrity chef, but I don't think that I'm a celebrity. So I want to stay keeping just a chef. That's more comfortable.

I'd rather go with someone who wasn't a great speaker, but was a great chef, rather than someone who was a great performer, but maybe not a great cook.

I was lucky enough to marry a wonderful chef.

Things are going to go wrong. The great chefs are the ones that don't let it fluster them. They just move through it.

Some of the greatest chefs in the world aren't classically trained. Thomas Keller - probably the greatest American chef ever to walk the earth - never went to culinary school. You know?

For the longest time, chefs and restaurateurs were able to get products home cooks couldn’t get, but that’s not the case anymore.

Both my parents are chefs I grew up in a restaurant and was always surrounded by cooks. I love food.

I was good at math and science, and I got lots of degrees in lots of things, but in a parallel universe, I probably became a chef.

Chef's choice is my favorite. I'm super adventurous.

Chef cookin for me They say my shoe game crazy The mental asylum lookin for me