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I love Italy. For hundreds of years, if not centuries, the people of italy (Italians) have been living here." [Audrey's insight] — Tom Gleisner

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 think people lose sight of the fact that chefs should be ultimately in the pleasure business, not in the look-at-me business. — Anthony Bourdain

I've always said that I think females make the best chefs anywhere in the world. — Gordon Ramsay

Techniques are not the most difficult to teach. The attitudes chefs take are much more important. — Alain Ducasse

I spent time at my grandfather Dino's gourmet store where he brought in chefs from Naples to cook. I thought of them as rock stars. — Giada De Laurentiis

Honestly ... I only get starstruck over chefs. — Gigi Hadid

All the Ping-Pong and pool tables, on-site chefs, Nerf hoops, and stereo systems cannot make up for the truth that some places work people like dogs. — Ken Wilber

There are many places that people can produce really good food. I wouldn't limit it to an area of the country, it's what the chefs have in them. — Anne Burrell

A lot of writers and artists are like chefs who eat their own cooking in the kitchen and then deliver an empty plate with assurances that it's great. — Peter Schjeldahl

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

The real evolution is to learn something new every day - it's very important for chefs to share what they have discovered. — Alain Ducasse

It's really an honor to be included in such an incredible lineup of chefs. The team Borgata has assembled is by far one of the best on the East Coast. — Geoffrey Zakarian

TV chefs are not responsible for people's consumption of fibre; this is not our job. — Yotam Ottolenghi

There are very few chefs both in Britain and the States that really identify the secret of being consistent. And combine consistency with flavor. — Gordon Ramsay

Some people who are obsessed with food become gourmet chefs. Others become eating disorders. — Marya Hornbacher

Mothers and grandmothers: these are the people that I admire most, not so much chefs. — Yotam Ottolenghi

There are so many impassioned winemakers. I think there are more impassioned winemakers than chefs. — Alain Ducasse

Chefs are leaders in their own little world. — Eric Ripert

had put them up to it, perhaps the chefs — David Nicholls

No one who cooks cooks alone. — Laurie Colwin

Trying's good. Trying's sexy," Gage murmured against Brady's ear. "Now try telling me what you need. — Kate Meader

All chefs are like Jewish mothers. They want to feed you and feed you and impress you. It's an eagerness to please. — Padma Lakshmi

The reason that chefs become chefs is that they're not allowed into rooms with windows. — A.A. Gill

I've discovered the burger is a crazy thing in Vegas, but I was one of the early chefs to do a lot of burgers. — Daniel Boulud

I'm a Twitter addict. Jose Andres is a serial tweeter. It's funny to see which chefs have embraced it, and the different paths they take. — Anthony Bourdain

Chefs don't become chefs just to earn stars - that's not the goal. — Alain Ducasse

Chefs work with food, artists with oil paint, programmers with code. — Steve Lohr

Great chefs know it's the appearance of food that counts ... but great eaters know its the amount of food that counts — Jim Davis

You're getting to know who the great chefs are through their books. — Thomas Keller

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

We [chefs] are competitive, although I think you need to be careful with competitiveness as it can become quite negative. — Paul Rankin

In a perfect world all men would be pastry chefs. — Ed Polish

Chefs have a new opportunity - and perhaps even an obligation - to inform the public about what is good to eat, and why. — Rene Redzepi

Do we really require so many gardening programmes, makeover programmes or celebrity chefs? — David Attenborough

As chefs, we work with organizations like Oxfam to enrich their projects with culinary tools, recipes and ideas. — Jose Andres

No one raps about food like I do. I rap about fine dishes - like, all kinds of things that only real chefs and real foodies are going to know about. — Action Bronson

As chefs, we cook to please people, to nourish people. — Jose Andres

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

We the chefs have a responsibility to learn about the chemical makeup of food! — Joel Robuchon

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

Chefs are artists, and I couldn't be happy with my art if I was forced to use cheap ingredients. — Nobu Matsuhisa

Great food needed more than chefs; it needed gourmet diners. — Nicole Mones

Chefs are nutters. They're all self-obsessed, delicate, dainty, insecure little souls and absolute psychopaths. Every last one of them. — Gordon Ramsay

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

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

He shook his ladle overhead as if summoning the wrath of angel chefs among the stars. — Gregory Maguire

Most good chefs believe there is no such thing as too much garlic. — Timothy Ferriss

Cooking was taken with such seriousness in France that even ordinary chefs were proud of their profession. That's what appealed to me. — Julia Child

More and more, museums will look at restaurants and chefs differently - as if they are curating art. — Danny Meyer

We define content very broadly. Representing chefs, designers, makeup artists - it's all important. — Ari Emanuel

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

I've always been fascinated by chefs and the worlds of chefs - what they do is incredibly cinematic. — Jon Favreau

I don't think the rating system places too much pressure on chefs. I prefer to put the pressure on my chefs to perform to the top standards. — Alain Ducasse

There really is a camaraderie among chefs and a willingness to help out whenever we can. — Rocco DiSpirito

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

I think that a lot of us at home are iron chefs in their own right in that we have to come up with meals real quickly. — Jose Garces

All the great chefs I know - Thomas Keller, Jean-Georges Vongerichten - they are technicians first. — Jacques Pepin

I love cooking, but I love the business, too. It's important because a lot of chefs forget the business side and have to shut down after six months. — Jean-Georges Vongerichten

I cannot bear the language TV chefs use - they don't seem able to look at a plate of vegetables without accusing it of sexual activity. — Ann Widdecombe

Strange people like chefs, musicians, and politicians affect me. — Jason Flemyng

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

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

Television is kind of a disappointment. I often want to watch it, but I find it quite hard - I don't like soaps, reality TV or celebrity chefs. — Quentin Blake

Both my parents are chefs ... I grew up in a restaurant and was always surrounded by cooks. I love food. — Ming-Na Wen

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

Chefs think about what it's like to make food. Being a scientist in the kitchen is about asking why something works, and how it works. — Nathan Myhrvold

I like the fact that Melbourne always seems to support their chefs and promote them in ways I find really admirable. — Anthony Bourdain

Don't put too many chefs to work. Sometimes they get too involved in the ingredients and are of no help. — Jose Andres

Many of my friends are chefs, and I learnt to cook watching them. — Mary Quant

I'm surprised by the talent I find all over. There are always new chefs who propose many interesting new ideas, new ways of looking at ingredients. — Alain Ducasse

I don't know any group of professionals that mobilize as fast and as often as chefs do when there are people who are in need. — Jose Andres

Many chefs are either technically or artistically better than me, but I know my food has soul. — Nobu Matsuhisa

We can use all the scientific tools, but it will never replace the palate or the talent of the chefs who are in the kitchen. — Daniel Humm

For the longest time, chefs and restaurateurs were able to get products home cooks couldn't get, but that's not the case anymore. — Michael Symon

I have real admiration for chefs who can maintain an edge and find new inspiration in their cooking after many years. — Daniel Boulud

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

Japanese chefs believe our soul goes into our knives once we start using them. You wouldn't put your soul in a dishwasher! — Masaharu Morimoto

To be tempted and indulged by the city's most brilliant chefs. It's the dream of every one of us in love with food. — Gael Greene

You see fewer and fewer chefs who are really big - most stay in shape. — Wolfgang Puck

Good chefs started with a pizza — Pizza

A lot of young chefs today get carried away by trends, by influences, by movements. — Daniel Boulud

chefs, the Guatemalans, sometimes — Jonathan Kellerman

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

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

If you want to become a great chef, you have to work with great chefs. And that's exactly what I did. — Gordon Ramsay

I think there are a lot of chefs in D.C. who have made D.C. what it is today. I am very respectful to them. I'm very admiring of what they've done. — Daniel Boulud

I miss being fawned over by restaurateurs and chefs. — Toby Young

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

Chefs, as a whole, say yes to any project, fundraiser, or tasting because they have such a generous spirit. — Charlie Trotter

The great chefs understand human desire. They can balance nurturing with the desire to dazzle or seduce or impress. — David Blum

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. — Rene Redzepi

Chefs are fond of hyperbole, so they can certainly talk that way. But on the whole, I think they probably have a more open mind than most people. — Anthony Bourdain

Too often, chefs just want to experiment - they want to use liquid nitrogen before they know how to use heat. — Tom Colicchio

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

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

My mum and dad are pretty amazing chefs and they spent most of my childhood cooking really extravagant things for my sister and me. — Jake Gyllenhaal