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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

I hated the Naked Chef. Fine, yes, he did good things for school food or whatever, but, you know, I don't want my chefs to be cute and adorable. — 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

Chef Michel Richard is always at the top of his game. — Jose Andres

If I had to have a favorite chef, I'd probably say I like Guy Fieri. — G. Garvin

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

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

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

Think about your menu, and if you're not a skilled chef - which I'm not - follow a recipe. You can't go wrong if you don't cut the fine print. — Karen Elson

I always loved cooking, from an early age. I kind of wanted to be a chef. — Caleb Followill

You wouldn't know it but I'm no good at ... cooking. My chef does that. — Carolina Herrera

...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

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

I feel like I've met most people I look up to musically. I just want to meet Chef. — Zach Condon

TV is a deformed vision, an excessive caricature. A chef has to stay an artisan, not become a star. — Alain Ducasse

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

Ask any comedian, tennis player, chef. Timing is everything. — Meg Rosoff

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

Support a small chef. Not these big chains ... but support the people who are out there trying to do things right and working hard to do that. — Tom Douglas

Here's Lego Zombie Chef! Here's Lego Zombie builder! See their grasping hands and posable limbs! — Kirsty McKay

Chef Thomas Keller was an inspiration to me and many, many young cooks like me. He told us that the role of the new, modern chef is different. — David Chang

Back in the day, I used to watch 'The Cajun Chef' with Justin Wilson. His mixing would go one way, and his stomach would go the other. — Adam Richman

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

A Good Recipe Is As Good As The Chef That Cooks It — Kirk Castle

I am the chef of love. Let me utilize your oven. — Jarod Kintz

A cocktail can be made by the bartender. But the cocktail also can be made by the chef. — Jose Andres

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. — Will.i.am

I remember when I was in college, I used to watch Julia Child's cooking show during dinner and joke with my roommates about becoming a TV chef. — Martin Yan

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

I am the most unselfish chef in Britain today. — Gordon Ramsay

I have a full Tuscan lunch and dinner every day in my home; my husband's a fantastic chef. — Debi Mazar

I'm not reinventing the wheel. I'm just making it run without squeaking.

Sunny Anderson, TV Chef — Lexi Dare

You can't go into the chef's office of any serious kitchen and not see a copy of Larousse. A must-have for professional and home cooks alike. — David Chang

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

Set yourself up for success from the very beginning and then focus on maintaining that success. — Cat Cora

You never forget a beautiful thing that you have made,' [Chef Bugnard] said. 'Even after you eat it, it stays with you - always. — Julia Child

I have a theory that the people who cook in jails are British chefs. — Steve Earle

Nobody believes in racial profiling until they get a red-haired sushi chef with a southern accent. — Jim Gaffigan

'Top Chef' is a very smooth-running machine. All the people working there are incredibly professional and absolutely at the top of their game. — Toby Young

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

My grandfather was a great chef. — Douglas Booth

Steve Zahn and I like to go to dinner, and we love to go to Chef Donald Link's Herb Saint. — Kim Dickens

No question, your best times as a cook are the chef de partie years. Chef in charge of a section. It's the best and hardest job in the kitchen. — Tom Sellers

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

Mary Jane was a very important person in The Underworld. Nasir liked to call her the chef of the Underworld. Although — Nako

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

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

Most people think buying is investing, but they're wrong. Buying doesn't make you an investor any more than buying groceries makes you a chef. — Gary Keller

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

'Chef' doesn't mean that you're the best cook, it simply means 'boss.' — Tom Colicchio

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

I love 'Top Chef.' I think it rewrote the book on how food shows are presented on TV. — Andy Cohen

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

First of all, I can't really claim to be a great chef. — Martin Yan

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. — Jose Andres

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

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

In normal life, "simplicity" is synonymous with "easy to do," but when a chef uses the word, it means "takes a lifetime to learn. — Bill Buford

I never cooked at home - my father was the chef. — Rene Redzepi

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

The restaurants express the spirit of the chef, the spirit of the city, the country. — Alain Ducasse

As a chef, if I can taste something, I can basically figure out what's in it. — Kelis

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

People with chile peppers on their chef pants shouldn't be allowed in the kitchen. — April Bloomfield

In the orchestra of a great kitchen, the sauce chef is a soloist. — Fernand Point

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

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

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

As a chef I'm not your dietitian or your ethicist, I'm in the pleasure business. — Anthony Bourdain

Antoine, you have a phone call." Chef Fanelli — Christy Barritt

I'm not on chef level, but I'd make a good line cook. That's not too shabby. — Jon Favreau

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

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

To die is nothing, but to live with purpose and integrity, that's something — Elle Newmark

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

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

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

Only few people know that Turkey is the vegetarians' paradise. — Chef Deniz

My palate is simpler than it used to be. A young chef adds and adds and adds to the plate. As you get older, you start to take away. — Jacques Pepin

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. — Geoffrey Zakarian

I'm a normal guy. I'm not a chef. — Al Roker

I have a chef who makes sure that I'm getting the right amounts of carbs, proteins and fats throughout the day to keep me at my max performance level. — Barry Bonds

Success is best when it is shared. — Howard Schultz

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