The Chef Quotes
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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
The winner is the chef who takes the same ingredients as everyone else and produces the best results.
— Edward De Bono
I was the head chef on the S.S. Diarrhea.
— Mr. Krabs
Chef Michel Richard is always at the top of his game.
— Jose Andres
It will always be trendy to do the right thing with food.
— Marcus Samuelsson
The design of a restaurant should embrace the identity of the chef, the nature of the cuisine, and the context of the restaurant itself.
— David Rockwell
The chef that grew up with the grandma who cooks tends to always beat the chef that went to the culinary institute. It's in the blood.
— Gary Vaynerchuk
The worst food you'll ever eat will probably be prepared by a 'cook' who calls himself a 'chef.' Mark my words.
— Alton Brown
Sometimes you just dread reading scripts; it's like the chef who doesn't want to cook at home.
— Martin Henderson
Yet New York is always the chef, never the diner. Being
— Edmund White
We watch the chef slice eel and octopus, delicate operations of dismemberment and amputation. For some reason it makes me think of poetry.
— Jessica Martinez
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 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
If you've attended the Cordon Bleu, you would know that no woman is supposed to be a chef - only men.
— Sandra Lee
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
Bringing your kids into the kitchen doesn't require you to be a top chef; only time and maybe a willingness to get a little messy.
— Michael Mina
I have a very modern way of thinking; the chef is there to lead the team and not just to sit behind the piano.
— Alain Ducasse
First need in the reform of hospital management? That's easy! The death of all dietitians, and the resurrection of a French chef.
— Martin H. Fischer
The better the ingredients, the more farmers I can buy from, the closer I feel to the food I want to make that represents what I care about as a chef.
— Alexandra Guarnaschelli
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
I lurched away from the table after a few hours feeling like Elvis in Vegas - fat, drugged, and completely out of it.
— Anthony Bourdain
Every chef I know, their cholesterol is through the roof. And mine's not so great.
— Anthony Bourdain
Last week I told my wife, If you would learn to cook, I could fire the chef. She said, If you could learn to make love, I could fire the chauffer.
— Rodney Dangerfield
During the course of filming 'Top Chef,' I gain 15 lbs., so I'm used to needing two dress sizes.
— Padma Lakshmi
The role of a chef isn't to reinvent dishes but to tweak.
— Jean-Georges Vongerichten
A sushi chef has to spot the best-quality fresh fish instantly.
— Nobu Matsuhisa
Maybe one of the only things I do well: I cook like a maniac! I would be a chef if I weren't an actor.
— Ian Somerhalder
A chef is a mixture maybe of artistry and craft. You have to learn the craft really to get there.
— Wolfgang Puck
If he is thin, I will probably dine poorly. If he is both thin and sad, the only hope is in flight.
— Fernand Point
Delivering a speech or presentation is like cooking a meal; as long as the chef is good the cuisine doesn't matter.
— Jack Canfield
For me, the food is most excited in ['Top Chef Mexico'], I get to try it all. My mouth waters just thinking about it.
— Ana Claudia Talancon
I am a chef who happens to appear on the telly, that's it.
— Gordon Ramsay
Hassan, he has the makings of a great chef, it is true, and he has talent beyond anything you and I possess.
— Richard C. Morais
The midfield are like a chef, trying to prise open a stubborn oyster to get at the fleshy meat inside.
— George Hamilton
Why don't you like the foods I like?" he asks sometimes. "Why don't you like the foods I make?" I answer.
— Lydia Davis
The celebrity-chef thing, even at its worst, its most annoying, its silliest, its goofiest, its most egregious and cynical, has been a good thing.
— Anthony Bourdain
There's not a single chef I know of that does not think about the politics of the food they're serving.
— Gail Simmons
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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 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
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
I never cooked at home - my father was the chef.
— Rene Redzepi
Don't dunk your nigiri in the soy sauce. Don't mix your wasabi in the soy sauce. If the rice is good, complement your sushi chef on the rice.
— Anthony Bourdain
I came to understand that the words executive and corporate never belong next to the word chef.
— Thomas Keller
Well, yeah. You said you wanted Italian. See. Chef Boyardee. He makes one the best stuff. (Tabitha)
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
You know, I never really thought of myself as a 'celebrity.' One of the titles that I like least is 'celebrity chef.'
— Wolfgang Puck
I really don't care for the proper chef coat.
— David Chang
I'm not reinventing the wheel. I'm just making it run without squeaking.Sunny Anderson, TV Chef — Lexi Dare
Set yourself up for success from the very beginning and then focus on maintaining that success.
— Cat Cora
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 am the chef of love. Let me utilize your oven.
— Jarod Kintz
