Famous Quotes & Sayings

Daniel Boulud

When France was the only reference for chefs to learn, you could go everywhere in the world, and they would copy dishes directly because they didn't have much expanded imagination or technique or knowledge.

Khloe Kardashian

I want to be a chef, but I'm only a fat girl chef; like, I only like to make fat comfort food. I'm not, like, a healthy chef person.

Mark Madison

We did grits this morning. We do have chefs from New Orleans, and we'll probably give that a try.

April Bloomfield

Food's delicate. You have to handle it with finesse. You can't just be a big ogre.

Claudia Fleming

Men are always pushed into group situations ... like group sports with a leader. In the kitchen the chef is your captain, but in pastry there is more autonomy, more independence. Women relish that. you are permitted to be creative sooner than on the hot line.

Royce Osborn

But the food was great, ... Our chef was doing a fantastic job.

Joe Amato

Occasionally, the chef gets creative and comes up with a new one.

Daniel Boulud

The problem is that there is many great chefs and many great cookbooks, but none of them work at home.

Carole Bouquet

It's like a kitchen, acting. Put a chef in a kitchen and they will have different recipes. Whatever your recipe, what works for you won't work for another.

Rene Redzepi

When I turned 15, I left school having failed to make the minimum grade. With little direction I enlisted at the local culinary school. Here the academic demands were less rigorous.

Luca Parmitano

Being Italian, I have a very special relationship with the culinary arts. One my projects was to share Italian cultural food with my colleagues.

William Shakespeare

Here is a rural fellow that will not be denied your Highness' presence: he brings you figs.

Ben Bradlee

The champagne was flowing like the Potomac in flood.

Bruce Jay Friedman

The best thing about liver is how virtuous it makes you feel after you've eaten some.

Ed Oxenbould

I have a real interest in baking. I'd love to go to culinary school. That's actually my plan: to graduate high school and go to culinary school.

Yotam Ottolenghi

Braising eggs in a flavoursome, aromatic sauce is all the rage. It is warming and comforting, ideal for the morning when you are not normally up for a great culinary challenge.

Dana Goodyear

I will eat disgusting things, but only those with long established culinary traditions.

Marcus Samuelsson

While some people may think being a chef only entails making enticing dishes and pushing the culinary boundaries, being a part of the food industry involves much more.

Russell Crowe

What holds South Sydney back can be attributed to lack of funding, but it also is possibly attributed to too many cooks spoil the broth.

Elizabeth David

I would probably never have learned to cook.

Mark Graham

Pork has a lot going for it: It cooks up quickly, it's a good source of protein and it's relatively low in calories.

Aziz Ansari

Come cook food with me and do nothing.

Becky Selengut

I am getting e-mails from home cooks who are happy to have a place to learn more about seasonal foods. They tell me it has been a goal but they didn't know where to look.

Bill Buford

People have all this interest in food. But for most people, it's a mystery how to prepare food. I wanted the knowledge cooks know: the in-your-fingers knowledge you get by doing it over and over.

Bryan Volpenhein

There's way more pressure cooking for cooks than rowing at the Olympics.

Yotam Ottolenghi

My father always cooks more polenta than he needs for a meal. The excess he spreads on an oiled surface and chills. Next day, he cuts out chunks, fries them in olive oil and serves with salad.

Yotam Ottolenghi

Like parents, cooks shouldn't have favourites, but some recipes inevitably shine more than others.