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Cooking is for chefs. Science informs us and lets us cook while knowing what we are doing, but it is not a replacement for the skills of a chef.
— Nathan Myhrvold
Anyone who's a chef, who loves food, ultimately knows that all that matters is: 'Is it good? Does it give pleasure?'
— Anthony Bourdain
I know for an absolute fact that if I ate a meal at one of Gordon Ramsay's restaurants, I would be able to taste his anger.
— John Cheese
Lesson: Never underestimate a woman. Or a chef.
— Gwenda Bond
If I want popularity, I go to a chef's convention.
— Nathan Myhrvold
...if you can't find any grappa, half a cup of cough medicine should achieve similar results." [Audrey's advice]
— Tom Gleisner
The worst food you'll ever eat will probably be prepared by a 'cook' who calls himself a 'chef.' Mark my words.
— Alton Brown
TV is a deformed vision, an excessive caricature. A chef has to stay an artisan, not become a star.
— Alain Ducasse
I used to take culinary arts at Job Corps so I'm a certified chef. I could cook chicken alfredo.
— Gorilla Zoe
Being a chef would be too much hard work.
— Sophie Ellis-Bextor
I don't think it's a good advert for any restaurant, a fat chef, and secondly, who wants to eat a dessert when the chef's a fat pig.
— Gordon Ramsay
A great chef is an artist that I truly respect.
— Robert Stack
A special buffet would be opened at the end of a suite of rooms, and Prokhorych (the head chef at the club) would be in charge
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
There's a bond among a kitchen staff, I think. You spend more time with your chef in the kitchen than you do with your own family.
— Gordon Ramsay
Being a chef isn't the ideal career to intersect with parenting, but I try to be in my kids' lives as much as possible.
— Wylie Dufresne
If you have a good experience in a restaurant, you tell 2 people. If you have a bad experience, you tell 10 people.
— Anthony Bourdain
Fame hurt. People thought I was a sellout chef and stopped coming to my restaurant.
— Chris Cosentino
Nobody believes in racial profiling until they get a red-haired sushi chef with a southern accent.
— Jim Gaffigan
My grandfather was a great chef.
— Douglas Booth
I have a full Tuscan lunch and dinner every day in my home; my husband's a fantastic chef.
— Debi Mazar
I saw then how I could be a good Buddhist and a good chef, and serve meat that is given freely, without suffering.
— Matthew Johnson
I want to attend a Pampered Chef party about as much as I want to go to a used auto parts party where you can win a baby monkey as a door prize.
— Carol Maloney Scott
I'm not a chef. I think in this country, we use the term very loosely. I'm a cook and a teacher.
— Julia Child
Roberto Donna is a great Italian chef.
— Jose Andres
I lurched away from the table after a few hours feeling like Elvis in Vegas - fat, drugged, and completely out of it.
— Anthony Bourdain
I wanted to learn everything I could about what it takes to be a great chef. It was a turning point for me.
— Thomas Keller
I became friends with a lot of chefs. I was a judge on 'Top Chef' last year. It was a dream come true.
— Joe Jonas
You don't become a chef to become famous.
— Eric Ripert
If you want to become a great chef, you have to work with great chefs. And that's exactly what I did.
— Gordon Ramsay
You know how kids dream of being soccer players or actors? Well, my dream was to be a sushi chef.
— Nobu Matsuhisa
Becoming a great leader, a great athlete, or great chef takes more than desire or even knowledge. It takes effort. It takes practice.
— Dave Anderson
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.
— Eric Balfour
You know, I never really thought of myself as a 'celebrity.' One of the titles that I like least is 'celebrity chef.'
— Wolfgang Puck
They say one should never trust a thin chef. By this measure, Chef Maurice was very trustworthy indeed.
— J.A. Lang
If I weren't a matchmaker, I'd be a chef.
— Patti Stanger
The chef who cooks without a song on his lips cannot hope to infuse the right carefree improvisatory note into his art.
— James Hamilton-Paterson
Mostly I enjoy the restaurants (my husband is a chef), though I wish we had a wider diversity of ethnic food.
— Poppy Z. Brite
I'm one of those people who're good at everything but I'm not great at anything. I thought I'd be a chef or a teacher.
— Jesse Lacey
I am not a food critic. Or a chef. Or even a professional writer. What I am schooled in the art of, however, is enjoying myself.
— Jewel Staite
Gordon Ramsay, the only chef in London honored with three stars by the 'Guide Michelin,' is not a monster.
— Bill Buford
A FRIGHTENED, ANGRY, FOUR-HUNDRED-POUND, antisocial chef with a combat shotgun never leads to anything good.
— Dean Koontz
I always knew I wanted to be a chef.
— Grant Achatz
I'm a normal guy. I'm not a chef.
— Al Roker
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.
— Joe Bastianich
I am a very eco-friendly chef but a guilty air traveller.
— Alain Ducasse
At heart, 'Chef' is a daddy-daycare fable about an overextended man who teaches his 10-year-old son the family business and learns to love him.
— Richard Corliss
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.
— Tom Colicchio
One thing I always say is being a great chef today is not enough - you have to be a great businessman.
— Wolfgang Puck
Now everybody thinks that once you do Top Chef, then 13 weeks later you're a chef. Nobody wants to learn to cook anymore.
— Wolfgang Puck
My father was a chef but hadn't owned his own business. I didn't like that. In my heart of hearts, I knew I wanted to be in business.
— Andrew Cherng
A Good Recipe Is As Good As The Chef That Cooks It
— Kirk Castle
A cocktail can be made by the bartender. But the cocktail also can be made by the chef.
— Jose Andres
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.
— Tom Colicchio
If I didn't ever model? I would be back in Kansas. I would probably end up being a pastry chef. My grandma taught me how to make a pie.
— Lindsey Wixson
The first year I sold a photo to was a lady who thought I was a chef, for some reason. I've no idea why.
— Graeme Le Saux
As a chef and activist, I'm particularly concerned with food politics issues such as the farm bill.
— Marcus Samuelsson
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.
— Masaharu Morimoto
Antoine, you have a phone call." Chef Fanelli
— Christy Barritt
We can't all be bakers or chefs. Many of us have modest ambitions. But we can all buy a piece of the pie.
— Amah Lambert
I wanted to write a food book, but I'm not a chef or an expert on culinary matters, to put it mildly.
— Kate Christensen
Chefs become attracted to being able to get product and then clientele - those are the two things that attract you as a chef.
— Michael Mina
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.
— Marcus Samuelsson