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.

April Bloomfield

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

She's just the master chef in the kitchen. When she was measuring out the milk for nine children, she made sure each glass had an equal amount. Otherwise, the kids would get on her about it.

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.

Emilia Fox

I'm the joke of the family with cooking because I've never done it - primarily because I've been surrounded by people who are so good at it. Mum's brilliant. Boyfriends have always been good at it. I'm waiting for my inner chef to be released.

Eric Ripert

Some chefs go crazy with one restaurant, and if I had 20, I would go nuts.

They eat the dainty food of famous chefs with the same pleasure with which they devour gross peasant dishes, mostly composed of garlic and tomatoes, or fisherman's octopus and shrimps, fried in heavily scented olive oil on a little deserted beach.

Andy Cohen

I've been nominated for 12 Emmys, and we won - for 'Top Chef' - the only time I didn't go.

Tom Colicchio

We are not really privy to all that crazy stuff that goes on in the show. I go to work, eat, and talk about food. The wild things happen when we aren't around. I expected Top Chef to last three or four seasons and we are now shooting season ten.

will.i.am

If you are a chef, no matter how good a chef you are, it's not good cooking for yourself; the joy is in cooking for others - it's the same with music.

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

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.

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

Gregory Smith

There are more chefs per capita in Park City than in Paris. It's a very sophisticated place.

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

Marcus Samuelsson

They say never trust a skinny chef, but the fact is, to stay healthy when you're a chef means you have to work twice as hard.

Alton Brown

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

Alton Brown

The worst food you'll ever eat will probably be prepared by a 'cook' who calls himself a 'chef.' Mark my words.

Anthony Bourdain

I'm evangelical on the subject of some chefs and writers.

Anthony Bourdain

Every chef I know, their cholesterol is through the roof. And mine's not so great.

Anthony Bourdain

As a chef I’m not your dietitian or your ethicist, I’m in the pleasure business.

Sally Quinn

I suspect she and the chef did not see eye-to-eye, and that is the kind of thing that happens. So much of this is chemistry and personality. So I am sure they will get another chef and I am sure the food will be fine.

Alton Brown

It ain't what you got, it's what you know and do with what you got, ... The difference between a cook and a chef is understanding what's going on.

Daniel Boulud

I think in France, for example, we can say whatever we want about the French, but going out and dining is more about the intellectual moment to share with the people you dine with than trying to figure out what the chef did with that little piece of salmon or lobster and all that.

Daniel Boulud

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

April Bloomfield

All chefs have pictures of food in their phones, stuffed pig's ears and pigs' heads and the like.

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.

When my mother and father died, Chef cooked food just like what we're enjoying here today.

Bob Wright

Our chefs come up with wonderful specials all the time. Thursdays are lobster night ($13.95) and Wednesdays are prime rib night ($12.95). We have different specials throughout the week.

Daniel Boulud

I think D.C. has always been very, very vibrant for food. Like Boston in a way. Boston and D.C. were really the two cities that were the most active with their local chefs and their local food scene.

My mom was cooking all the time. I was always around great food, and so was Sandy. Our mothers could cook better than some of the finest chefs around.

I think every chef should have a food truck. It's a good way to test the markets, to invest in meeting the future restaurant goers.

Marcus Samuelsson

I love chicken. But, like a lot of chefs and cooks, I get tired of preparing it the same way.