Famous Quotes & Sayings

Daniel Boulud

When France was the only reference for chefs to learn, you could go everywhere in the world, and they would copy dishes directly because they didn't have much expanded imagination or technique or knowledge.

Nobu Matsuhisa

A sushi chef has to spot the best-quality fresh fish instantly.

Sally Schneider

A lot of chefs in restaurants, when they create their tasting menus, don't seem to consider that. They're trying to impress with too many rich items.

There's a lot of chefs in the kitchen.

Tom Colicchio

We are not really privy to all that crazy stuff that goes on in the show. I go to work, eat, and talk about food. The wild things happen when we aren't around. I expected Top Chef to last three or four seasons and we are now shooting season ten.

Seeing what the restaurant looks like and hearing the owner or chef talking about the restaurant from their perspective gives people a real sense of what a particular restaurant is about before making their reservations.

This is a new era of Iron Chef and 'Iron Chef America' will continue to deliver the competitions and rivalries fans love.

Khloe Kardashian

I want to be a chef, but I'm only a fat girl chef; like, I only like to make fat comfort food. I'm not, like, a healthy chef person.

We did grits this morning. We do have chefs from New Orleans, and we'll probably give that a try.

Gregory Smith

There are more chefs per capita in Park City than in Paris. It's a very sophisticated place.

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Joe Hamilton

Everyone's invited. Just go in like you'd order a regular restaurant meal. We hope to get as many people through the door as part of the fund-raiser. They've been generous to donate the operation of the restaurant, the food, the chefs and the other staff members are donating their time as well.

We were there for the press conference. For a while, she was on house arrest, so she invited every department up to her farm in Bedford for dinner once a week. One night, the chef of Le Cirque restaurant was cooking for us, and that was really great. Her house was still being furnished, so here we were sitting in this unfurnished room with Martha.

Joel Robuchon

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

Andy Cohen

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

Anthony Bourdain

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

Anthony Bourdain

Every chef I know, their cholesterol is through the roof. And mine's not so great.

Anthony Bourdain

As a chef I’m not your dietitian or your ethicist, I’m in the pleasure business.

Alton Brown

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

Alton Brown

The worst food you'll ever eat will probably be prepared by a 'cook' who calls himself a 'chef.' Mark my words.

Thomas Keller

I wanted to learn everything I could about what it takes to be a great chef. It was a turning point for me.

Nigella Lawson

I am not a chef. I am not even a trained or professional cook. My qualification is as an eater.

But the food was great, ... Our chef was doing a fantastic job.

She's just the master chef in the kitchen. When she was measuring out the milk for nine children, she made sure each glass had an equal amount. Otherwise, the kids would get on her about it.

Chefs are the horses that have been pulling this wagon. Holly Smith is practically our godmother.

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

Men are always pushed into group situations ... like group sports with a leader. In the kitchen the chef is your captain, but in pastry there is more autonomy, more independence. Women relish that. you are permitted to be creative sooner than on the hot line.

Occasionally, the chef gets creative and comes up with a new one.

Daniel Boulud

I think D.C. has always been very, very vibrant for food. Like Boston in a way. Boston and D.C. were really the two cities that were the most active with their local chefs and their local food scene.

My mom was cooking all the time. I was always around great food, and so was Sandy. Our mothers could cook better than some of the finest chefs around.

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.

Clint Hurdle

We were up there hacking like chefs at Benihana's the first three innings.

Jim Davis

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