Chef Quotes

Once you accept you are being judged by people who have less knowledge than yourself, then what's it worth?

Real food doesn't have ingredients, real food is ingredients.

Original, in French: La bonne cuisine est la base du véritable bonheur.

English: Good food is the foundation of genuine happiness.

Mother Nature is the true artist and our job as cooks is to allow her to shine.

It is our duty to give meaning to the life of future generations by sharing our knowledge and experience; by teaching an appreciation of work well done and a respect for nature, the source of all life; by encouraging the young to venture off the beaten path and avoid complacency by challenging their emotions.

If an architect makes a mistake, he grows ivy to cover it.

If a doctor makes a mistake, he covers it with soil. If a cook makes a mistake, he covers it with some sauce and says it is a new recipe.

Life doesn't get easier or more forgiving, we get stronger and more resilient.

Life is too short for cuisine minceur and for diets.

Dietetic meals are like an opera without the orchestra.

Critics are like eunuchs: they know how, but they can't do it.

The fine art of preparing sushi is something that you watch and learn.

The so-called nouvelle cuisine usually means not enough on your plate and too much on your bill.

I can't imagine anything worse than trying to impress a girl with dinner.

To be honest, I'm always impressing myself, not other people.

Imagine a world where children were fed tasty and nutritious, real food at school from the age of 4 to 18. A world where every child was educated about how amazing food is, where it comes from, how it affects the body and how it can save their lives.

The only time to eat diet food is while you’re waiting for steak to coo.

A tree without roots is just a piece of wood.

Noodles are not only amusing but delicious.

Sugar is the next tobacco, without a doubt, and that industry should be scared.

It should be taxed just like tobacco and anything else that can, frankly, destroy lives.

Homicide is 0.8% of deaths. Diet-related disease is over 60%. But no one talks about it.

I'm not making art, I'm making sushi

Food is one of life's greatest joys yet we've reached this really sad point where we're turning food into the enemy, and something to be afraid of

People who love to eat are always the best people .

Good food is the foundation of genuine happiness.

I wish for everyone to help create a strong, sustainable movement to educate every child about food, inspire families to cook again and empower people everywhere to fight obesity.

The only time to eat diet food is while you're waiting for the steak to cook.

If the divine creator has taken pains to give us delicious and exquisite things to eat, the least we can do is prepare them well and serve them with ceremony.

Ramen is a dish that's very high in calories and sodium.

One way to make it slightly healthier is to leave the soup and just eat the noodles.

When you are trying to move mountains you want-and need-people on your side who want to move them with you.

A party without a cake is just a meeting.

Every child should be taught to cook in school, not just talk about nutrition all day. Good food can be made in 15 minutes. This could be the first generation where the kids teach the parents.

Soup puts the heart at ease, calms down the violence of hunger, eliminates the tension of the day, and awakens and refines the appetite.

Pasta doesn't make you fat. How much pasta you eat makes you fat.

The smell of coffee cooking was a reason for growing up, because children were never allowed to have it and nothing haunted the nostrils all the way out to the barn as did the aroma of boiling coffee.

As far as cuisine is concerned one must read everything, see everything, hear everything, try everything, observe everything, in order to retain in the end, just a little bit.

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

People who love to eat are always the best people

Pick a destination, go there, be open-minded and talk to the locals.

Eat the things they eat and go where they go. You don't need to be fluent, just as long as you've got a smile on your face- people will be jumping over themselves to show you the stuff they're proud of.

I don't like looking back. I'm always constantly looking forward. I'm not the one to sort of sit and cry over spilt milk. I'm too busy looking for the next cow.

Pasta with melted cheese is the one thing I could eat over and over again.

Cajun is country food by farmers and fisherman that arrived in Louisiana from Acadiana, Canada.

Swearing is industry language. For as long as we're alive it's not going to change. You've got to be boisterous to get results.

If you've been given opportunities then you have to create opportunities.

If you're given knowledge by people, share your knowledge. If you were born with talent, show your talent off.

If you want to become a great chef, you have to work with great chefs.

And that's exactly what I did.

Baking may be regarded as a science, but it's the chemistry between the ingredients and the cook that gives desserts life. Baking is done out of love, to share with family and friends, to see them smile.

The duty of a good Cuisinier is to transmit to the next generation everything he has learned and experienced.

Without garlic I simply would not care to live.

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

A party without cake is really just a meeting.

The minute you start compromising for the sake of massaging somebody's ego, that's it, game over.

You don't have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces - just good food from fresh ingredients.

I have no regrets in my life. If not for the mistakes that I made I would not be the man I am today.

I've paid my price, a high price, I watched my mother die.

I look at everything I've been given now as a form of compensation. A person who has regrets is a person who casts anchors.

Desserts are like mistresses. They are bad for you. So if you are having one, you might as well have two.

One of the greatest pleasures of my life has been that I have never stopped learning about Good Cooking and Good Food

Brunch, for me, is an extended breakfast that should be enjoyed whenever you have time properly to engage in cooking and eating.

Many kids can tell you about drugs but do not know what celery or courgettes taste like.