A great chef is an artist that I truly respect. — Robert Stack
Chefs are nutters. They're all self-obsessed, delicate, dainty, insecure little souls and absolute psychopaths. Every last one of them. — Gordon Ramsay
Cooking is about passion, so it may look slightly temperamental in a way that it's too assertive to the naked eye. — Gordon Ramsay
Being a chef never seems like a job, it becomes a true passion. — Gordon Ramsay
I liked the energy of cooking, the action, the camaraderie. I often compare the kitchen to sports and compare the chef to a coach. There are a lot of similarities to it. — Todd English
Cooking is at once child's play and adult joy. And cooking done with care is an act of love. — Craig Claiborne
No one who cooks, cooks alone. Even at her most solitary, a cook in the kitchen is surrounded by generations of cooks past, the advice and menus of cooks present, the wisdom of cookbook writers. — Laurie Colwin
A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness. — Elsa Schiaparelli
Cooking is like painting or writing a song. Just as there are only so many notes or colors, there are only so many flavors - it's how you combine them that sets you apart. — Sayings
If you want to become a great chef, you have to work with great chefs. And that's exactly what I did. — Gordon Ramsay
Cooking demands attention, patience, and above all, a respect for the gifts of the earth. It is a form of worship, a way of giving thanks. — Judith Jones
Chefs have a new opportunity - and perhaps even an obligation - to inform the public about what is good to eat, and why. — Rene Redzepi
You're getting to know who the great chefs are through their books. — Thomas Keller
There really is a camaraderie among chefs and a willingness to help out whenever we can. — Rocco DiSpirito
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
Short Chefs Quotes
Show me who your friends are, and I will tell you what you are. — Unknown Author
A recipe has no soul. You, as the cook, must bring soul to the recipe. — Thomas Keller
I am not a chef. I am not even a trained or professional cook. My qualification is as an eater. — Nigella Lawson
Kitchens are hard environments and they form incredibly strong characters. — Gordon Ramsay
Remember that a very good sardine is always preferable to a not that good lobster. — Ferran Adria
Techniques are not the most difficult to teach. The attitudes chefs take are much more important. — Alain Ducasse
Kitchens should be designed around what's truly important-fun, food, and life. — Daniel Boulud
I am the emperor of Germany, but you are the emperor of chefs. — Wilhelm II
I always had a fantasy of being a chef, because I like kitchen life. — Geoffrey Rush
Great food needed more than chefs; it needed gourmet diners. — Nicole Mones
Chefs Image Quotes
Simple Chef Quotes
No matter what it is you are cooking, buy the best ingredients you can afford. I don't care if it's a simple salad or Beef Wellington. A quality product stands alone and won't need any dressing up. — Joe Bastianich
My two rules of cooking: keep it fresh and keep it simple. — Michael Isabella
I think it's a universal truth that most chefs I know are happiest eating simple, unadorned good things. — Anthony Bourdain
'The chef on duty will constantly point out the time, name the next project, and finish with 'push!' The entire team then calls it back. It is a simple one, but it gives me goosebumps every time. — Jorge Hernandez
Cooking Quotes
Become familiar with your home, but know also about your neighbors. The young man who never went anywhere thinks his mother is the greatest cook. — Chinua Achebe
Mother Nature is the true artist and our job as cooks is to allow her to shine. — Marco Pierre White
Herbs are the friend of the physician and the pride of cooks. — Charlemagne
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. — Paul Bocuse
Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal. — E. O. Wilson
Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince, and dinner like a pauper. — Adelle Davis
Dear Mama, don't cry, your baby boy's doin' good, Tell the homies I'm in heaven, and they ain't got hoods. Seen a show with Marvin Gaye last night, it had me shook, Drippin' peppermint Schnapps, with Jackie Wilson, and Sam Cooke. — Tupac Shakur
The strawberry grows underneath the nettle And wholesome berries thrive and ripen best Neighbour'd by fruit of baser quality. — William Shakespeare
Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime. Unless he doesn't like sushi, then you also have to teach him to cook. — Auren Hoffman
There is something wrong when you wait in line thirty minutes to get a hamburger that was cooked for ninety seconds an hour ago. — Lewis Grizzard
Cooking Shows Quotes
The turnip is a capricious vegetable, which seems reluctant to show itself at its best. — Waverley Root
Even now, when I do a slide show of the Geek Squad story, the first slide is a photo of ramen noodles. Because for me, ramen noodles are the international symbol for struggle. — Robert Stephens
I taped my first series for PBS in 1982 at WJCT-TV in Jacksonville, Florida. The show, called 'Everyday Cooking with Jacques Pepin,' was about saving time and money in the kitchen - and it was a celebration of simple and unpretentious food. — Jacques Pepin
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
People want honest, flavourful food, not some show-off meal that takes days to prepare. — Ted Allen
I wanted to come up with a hybrid show of sorts that wasn't your traditional 'dump and stir' type of cooking show. — Sayings
I'm obsessed with cooking shows, even though they make everything look so easy when it isn't. — Joely Fisher
I would like to host a show, something like travel or cooking or something like that, something I'm really interested in, and so I'm pitching a couple television shows. — Trishelle Cannatella
You ever taste some damn chicken so horrible, that you wished the chicken would show up at your house and show your lady how to cook him? — J. B. Smoove
Sometimes shows suffer from having many cooks in the kitchen. — Nick Kroll
The art of cookery is the art of poisoning mankind, by rendering the appetite still importunate, when the wants of nature are supplied. — Francois FeNelon
Cookery is not chemistry. It is an art. It requires instinct and taste rather than exact measurements. — Marcel Boulestin
God sends meat and the devil sends cooks. — Thomas Deloney
to "set the standard for beauty in classical and modem cookery, and attest to the distant future that the French chefs of the 19th century were the most famous in the world. — Marie-Antoine Careme
In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires. — Benjamin Franklin
Every investigation which is guided by principles of Nature fixes its ultimate aim entirely on gratifying the stomach. — Athenaeus
As in the fine arts, the progress of mankind from barbarism to civilisation is marked by a gradual succession of triumphs over the rude materialities of nature, so in the art of cookery is the progress gradual from the earliest and simplest modes, to those of the most complicated and refined. — Isabella Beeton
Not on morality, but on cookery, let us build our stronghold: there brandishing our frying-pan, as censer, let us offer sweet incense to the Devil, and live at ease on the fat things he has provided for his elect! — Thomas Carlyle
Cookery means…English thoroughness, French art, and Arabian hospitality; it means the knowledge of all fruits and herbs and balms and spices; it means carefulness, inventiveness, and watchfulness. — John Ruskin
Cooks In The Kitchen Quotes
When I'm old and gray, I want to have a house by the sea. And paint. With a lot of wonderful chums, good music, and booze around. And a damn good kitchen to cook in. — Ava Gardner
In cooking, as in all the arts, simplicity is the sign of perfection. — Curnonsky
The most used piece of kit in my kitchen is my saucepan. I use it every morning to cook my porridge in. The least used piece of equipment? I'd say a food mixer. I've never used it, I don't really know what they're for. — David Walliams
Some people like to paint pictures, or do gardening, or build a boat in the basement. Other people get a tremendous pleasure out of the kitchen, because cooking is just as creative and imaginative an activity as drawing, or wood carving, or music. — Julia Child
My wife is such a bad cook, if we leave dental floss in the kitchen the roaches hang themselves. — Rodney Dangerfield
Vegetarians, and their Hezbollah-like splinter faction, the vegans ... are the enemy of everything good and decent in the human spirit. — Anthony Bourdain
This is my invariable advice to people: Learn how to cook- try new recipes, learn from your mistakes, be fearless, and above all have fun! — Julia Child
Here is a kitchen improvement, in return for Peacock. For roasting or basting a chicken, render down your fat or butter with cider: about a third cider. Let it come together slowly, till the smell of cider and the smell of fat are as one. This will enliven even a frozen chicken. — Sylvia Townsend Warner
Always remember: If you're alone in the kitchen and you drop the lamb, you can always just pick it up. Who's going to know? — Julia Child
Fortunately, I knew the cardinal rule of getting on with one's fellow cooks. It applies in any kitchen and can be summed up in two short words: bust ass. — Jacques Pepin
French Cooking Quotes
I'm a breakfast type of guy. Don't get me wrong. I can cook, I'm kinda nice on the burner, but I enjoy making breakfast. I do it all... Scrambled eggs... French toast... Pancakes... Breakfast is my thing. — Ja Rule
The best way to execute French cooking is to get good and loaded and whack the hell out of a chicken. — Julia Child
Central heating, French rubber goods and cookbooks are three amazing proofs of man's ingenuity in transforming necessity into art, and, of these, cookbooks are perhaps most lastingly delightful. — M. F. K. Fisher
How can people say they don't eat eggplant when God loves the color and the French love the name? I don't under'stand. — Jeff Smith
God made only water, but man made wine. — Victor Hugo
My sisters like cooking at my place. It has a bit more room, and the food tastes a little bit better. A big pot of spaghetti and sauce, some warm French bread - works all the time. I think I've been eating pasta for 26 years. — Tom Brady
Sauces comprise the honor and glory of French cookery. They have contributed to its superiority, or pre-eminence, which is disputed by none. Sauces are the orchestration and accompaniment of a fine meal, and enable a good chef or cook to demonstrate his talent. — Curnonsky
Bouillabaisse is only good because cooked by the French, who, if they cared to try, could produce an excellent and nutritious substitute out of cigar stumps and empty matchboxes. — Norman Douglas
Sometimes, if you want to be happy, you've got to run away to Bath and marry a punk rocker. Sometimes you've got to dye your hair cobalt blue, or wander remote islands in Sicily, or cook your way through Mastering the Art of French Cooking in a year, for no very good reason. — Julie Powell
Just like becoming an expert in wine, you learn by drinking it, the best you can afford. — Julia Child
The most indespensible ingredient of all good home cooking: love for those you are cooking for. — Sophia Loren
Clean living keeps me in shape. Righteous thoughts are my secret. And New Orleans home cooking. — Fats Domino
History consists of a corpus ascertained facts. The facts are available to the historian in documents, inscriptions and so on, like fish in the fishmonger's slab. The historian collects them, takes them home, and cooks and serves them in whatever style appeals to him. — Edward Hallett Carr
As for butter versus margarine, I trust cows more than chemists. — Joan Dye Gussow
I like going out and I like being single, but a growing part of me would rather just stay home, cook food with someone I really like, and do nothing. — Aziz Ansari
Cooking is at once one of the simplest and most gratifying of the arts, but to cook well one must love and respect food. — Craig Claiborne
In an ideal world, I’m eating dinner at home before I have a DJ gig. — Hannah Bronfman
You will find that living in space can actually become a home, in spite of tools floating away. Alien to all you know, you will adapt and you will love it. — Peggy Whitson
Without ice cream there would be darkness and chaos. — Don Kardong
Culinary Quotes
Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live. — Socrates
The so-called nouvelle cuisine usually means not enough on your plate and too much on your bill. — Paul Bocuse
We should look for someone to eat and drink with before looking for something to eat and drink. — Epicurus
A bottle of wine contains more philosophy than all the books in the world. — Louis Pasteur
Good food is the foundation of genuine happiness. — Auguste Escoffier
So you can settle the fuck down. My mother used to say, "Primero comemos, entonces lo demás." That means, "first we eat, then we do everything else." — Brian Yorkey
If penicillin can cure those that are ill, Spanish sherry can bring the dead back to life. — Alexander Fleming
Be careful to trust a person who does not like wine. — Karl Marx
Most seafoods should be simply threatened with heat and then celebrated with joy. — Jeff Smith
Cooking Classes Quotes
This June, I'll travel once again to the Food and Wine Magazine Classic in Aspen, Colorado. For many years, my dear friend Julia Child and I have teamed up to teach classes together at the event; for the past seven years, my daughter, Claudine, has been my cooking partner on stage. — Jacques Pepin
I tell a student that the most important class you can take is technique. A great chef is first a great technician. 'If you are a jeweler, or a surgeon or a cook, you have to know the trade in your hand. You have to learn the process. You learn it through endless repetition until it belongs to you. — Jacques Pepin
All the homeschooling parents I know meet on a regular basis with other families. They organize field trips, cooking classes, reading clubs and Scout troops. Their children tend to be happy, confident and socially engaged. — Quinn Cummings
I'd love to learn to cook. I think the ladies like a guy who can cook. Also, there are lots of available ladies at cooking classes. Can you tell I'm single? — Will Estes
I took cooking classes when I was younger; girls weren't interested in me, and I thought I may be alone for the rest of my life. — Michael Jordan
Sister Maria Martinez whom I believe I've mentioned before has been giving me cooking classes. Today I learned how to bake mean banana bread. The secret apparently is half a cup of dark rum. — Adele Griffin
Lots of the cooking classes open to non-professionals are too low level for experienced foodies, or don’t offer enough hands-on training. — Homaro Cantu
Italian Cooking Quotes
A fruit is a vegetable with looks and money. Plus, if you let fruit rot, it turns into wine, something brussel sprouts never do. — P. J. O'Rourke
I made lemon spaghetti in an early season of 'Everyday Italian,' and to this day people still come up to me and say they love it. It's very, very simple. Basically, you cook the pasta and mix together Parmesan cheese, olive oil, lemon juice and zest and pour it over the pasta. — Giada De Laurentiis
I can't stand people that do not take food seriously. — Oscar Wilde
I always knew that food and wine were vital, with my mother being Italian and a good cook. — Robert Mondavi
I love cooking. I like to make lasagna - its authentic Italian-style. I also do a great chicken recipe for a barbecue. — Sullivan Stapleton
The tradition of Italian cooking is that of the matriarch. This is the cooking of grandma. She didn't waste time thinking too much about the celery. She got the best celery she could and then she dealt with it. — Mario Batali
I just signed to do my next book with Ecco Press, a new primer or encyclopedia. This will be my take on what classic Italian cooking is. — Mario Batali
There's an old joke that you know you're in heaven if the cooks are Italian and the engineering is German. If it's the other way around you're in hell. — David Byrne
I love the simplicity, the ingredients, the culture, the history and the seasonality of Italian cuisine. In Italy people do not travel. They cook the way grandma did, using fresh ingredients and what is available in season. — Anne Burrell
If your mother cooks Italian food, why should you go to a restaurant? — Martin Scorsese
Love To Cook Quotes
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. — Anna Olson
I love to cook. I make an award-winning turkey chili. — Joely Fisher
People who love to eat are always the best people. — Julia Child
The secret of good cooking is, first, having a love of it… If you’re convinced that cooking is drudgery, you’re never going to be good at it, and you might as well warm up something frozen. — James Beard
When you cook it should be an act of love. To put a frozen bag in the microwave for your child is an act of hate. — Raymond Blanc
Cooking is an art and patience a virtue. Careful shopping, fresh ingredients and an unhurried approach are nearly all you need. There is one more thing - love. Love for food and love for those you invite to your table. With a combination of these things you can be an artist — Keith Floyd
I'm a big fish eater. Salmon - I love salmon. My sister loves Chinese food and sushi and all that. I'm not as big of a fan, but she likes it so we eat it a lot. So I'm beginning to like it more. I don't like the raw sushi. I liked the cooked crab and lobster and everything. — Elle Fanning
The truffle is not a positive aphrodisiac, but it can upon occasion make women tenderer and men more apt to love. — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
As the days grow short, some faces grow long. But not mine. Every autumn, when the wind turns cold and darkness comes early, I am suddenly happy. It's time to start making soup again. — Leslie Newman
Centenarians are still living near their children and feel loved and the expectation to love. Instead of being mere recipients of care, they are contributors to the lives of their families. They grow gardens to contribute vegetables, they continue to cook and clean. — Dan Buettner
When we no longer have good cooking in the world, we will have no literature, nor high and sharp intelligence, nor friendly gatherings, no social harmony. — Marie-Antoine Careme
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
One of the greatest pleasures of my life has been that I have never stopped learning about Good Cooking and Good Food — Edna Lewis
Good food is a right, not a privilege. It brings children into a positive relationship with their health, community and environment. — Alice Waters
I don't like food that's too carefully arranged; it makes me think that the chef is spending too much time arranging and not enough time cooking. If I wanted a picture I'd buy a painting. — Andy Rooney
I raise my stein to the builder who can remove ghettos without removing people as I hail the chef who can make omelets without breaking eggs. — Robert Moses
The people who make it to the top - whether they're musicians, or great chefs, or corporate honchos - are addicted to their calling ... [they] are the ones who'd be doing whatever it is they love, even if they weren't being paid. — Quincy Jones
Following the devastating India Ocean tsunami of 2004, I founded Chefs for Humanity, modeled after Doctors Without Borders, but comprised of chefs. There wasn't anything out there like it, and there was a definite need for chefs to be able to offer assistance and aid to those suffering from hunger and/or malnutrition worldwide. — Cat Cora
The biggest challenge of being a pastry chef is that, unlike other types of chefs, you can't throw things together at a farmer's market. When you're working with baking powder and a formula, you have to be exact. If not, things can go wrong. — Carla Hall
A jazz musician can improvise based on his knowledge of music. He understands how things go together. For a chef, once you have that basis, that's when cuisine is truly exciting. — Charlie Trotter
Let's face it: if you and I have the same capabilities, the same energy, the same staff, if the only thing that's different between you and me is the products we can get, and I can get a better product than you, I'm going to be a better chef. — Thomas Keller
The exposure from 'Iron Chef' has been helpful, but at the end of the day your product and your service determine whether you get customers or not. If people decide to eat out less during a recession, the first restaurants that they will cut out are the ones that don't do a great job. — Michael Symon
I think every chef, not just in America, but across the world, has a double-edged sword - two jackets, one that's driven, a self-confessed perfectionist, thoroughbred, hate incompetence and switch off the stove, take off the jacket and become a family man. — Gordon Ramsay
I launched Chefs for Humanity, a national nonprofit, with my voice, heart and money from my own pocket. Money gives you the ability to make a difference in the world and, when used in a positive way, is a lot of fun. — Sayings
I hate the opera. I think I must have a tin ear. No matter how hard I concentrate it still sounds like a bunch of Italian chefs screaming risotto recipes at each other. — Aristotle Onassis
You don’t have to look far to taste some of the best food the world has to offer. I’d pit my grandmother against a 3-star Michelin chef any day. — Nadia Giosia
Food is life, life is food. If you don't like my approach you are welcome to go down to McDonalds. — Keith Floyd
My new shorty got a gymnastic back,
'87 emerald green on a classic Jag.
She had the cleft palate, I ordered chef's salad;
She had the club foot, with that little arm,
I couldn't help but laugh...she ordered Chicken Parm. — Action Bronson
A good apprentice cook must be as polite with the dishwasher as with the chef. — Fernand Point
Always start out with a larger pot than what you think you need. — Julia Child
Today there are very few chefs at that high level who are behind their stoves. You don't feel their presence within the room. Where's the romance? Where's the show? Where's the theater? The modern day restaurant - it's like dining in a chapel. It's boring. — Marco Pierre White
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