Best 188 quotes in «chef quotes» category

I always had a fantasy of being a chef, because I like kitchen life.

I am the most unselfish chef in Britain today.

I am not a chef. I am not even a trained or professional cook. My qualification is as an eater.

I am the emperor of Germany, but you are the emperor of chefs.

I am well aware that a chef is only as good as his last meal.

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.

I bet a chef could get more pussy than a guitar player right now.

I came to understand that the words executive and corporate never belong next to the word chef.

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 can't stand people that do not take food seriously.

If you have a good experience in a restaurant, you tell 2 people. If you have a bad experience, you tell 10 people.

If my last supper was ever going to be cooked by a chef, it would have to be Thomas Keller.

If any chef ever tells you they're not inspired equally by the truck-stop barbecue as they are by the four-star Michelin restaurant they are lying.

If he is thin, I will probably dine poorly. If he is both thin and sad, the only hope is in flight.

If I want popularity, I go to a chef's convention.

If you are not extreme, then people will take shortcuts because they don't fear you.

If you were to go to a restaurant and disagree with Daniel Boulud, he'd probably throw something at you. Restaurant chefs have a problem with caterers because we accommodate special requests, but great service is about getting exactly what you want.

If you're not the one cooking, stay out of the way and compliment the chef.

If you've attended the Cordon Bleu, you would know that no woman is supposed to be a chef - only men.

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.

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

I have great empathy for all the contestants that come on 'Top Chef,' whether they go home right away or they make it to the finish line. It's a very vulnerable position they put themselves in and I feel for them.

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'm a bit of a gourmet chef. I love cooking - mostly Thai food.

I'm not the type of person to eat big hunks of meat. I think people are starting to realize that great things come in small batches.

I'm a decent cook; I'm a decent chef. None of my friends would ever have hired me at any point in my career. Period.

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

I'm not a TV guy. I'm a restaurant chef and a businessman.

I think all chefs who pursue great flavor have good ethics.

In Japanese sushi restaurants, a lot of sushi chefs talk too much.

In any restaurant of this caliber, the chefs are in the same position, building relationships.

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

In my early days, I copied the great French chefs, like most chefs do. Copying is not bad. Copying and not recognizing that you are copying is bad. For me, when I go to a restaurant and am served a dish influenced by something we created at elBulli, if it's well done, it makes me extremely happy.

I raise my stein to the builder who can remove ghettos without removing people as I hail the chef who can make omelets without breaking eggs.

I still cook at home. A lot of chefs I think don't cook at home. But I still do, I love cooking at home, I love having friends.

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.

I think the most wonderful thing in the world is another chef. I'm always excited about learning new things about food.

I think it's a universal truth that most chefs I know are happiest eating simple, unadorned good things.

It's an interesting thing, Top Chef. Some of the contestants will make you one great dish, and then make you something on the next show that will make you say, "Is that the same person?

I train my chefs with a blindfold. I'll get my sous chef and myself to cook a dish. The young chef would have to sit down and eat it with a blindfold. If they can't identify the flavor, they shouldn't be cooking the dish.

It's wild how chefs have become like rock stars.

It's quite weird knocking that out of them and telling them to forget cooking for chefs; forget what chefs say about your food.

It's not sticky unless it touches itself.

I wanted to work in a restaurant. Le Cirque was looking for a chef and they approached me. I was excited to be able to be part of this restaurant with an amazing reputation, but not a good one for food at the time. I made it clear that if I was coming to Le Cirque it was going to change.

It will always be trendy to do the right thing with food.

I used to take culinary arts at Job Corps so I'm a certified chef. I could cook chicken alfredo.

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

I wanted to learn everything I could about what it takes to be a great chef. It was a turning point for me.

I would love to date a chef. I'd probably get really fat, but I don't care.

I want to go as far as it will take me. I would love to go pro, but if that doesn't happen, I am a gourmet chef and would like to open my own restaurant.