Geoffrey Zakarian
Geoffrey Zakarian
Geoffrey Zakarianis an Armenian-American Iron Chef, restaurateur, television personality and author. He is the executive chef of several restaurants in New York City, Atlantic City and Miami. He is featured on several television programs on the Food Network, including Chopped and in 2011, The Next Iron Chef, where he won the right to join Iron Chef America...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionChef
Date of Birth25 July 1959
CountryUnited States of America
chopped freshness sauce takes time tomatoes
If you cook chopped tomatoes with all of their juices, it takes a long time for the sauce to reach the right consistency. By then, the freshness is gone.
consultant culinary
I'm the culinary and creative consultant for The Water Club.
delivered translate york
I still have the 'New York Post' delivered because it's so garrulous and nasty and wonderful when you read it in print. Some things just don't translate online.
noise determine brands
Determine who you are and what your brand is, and what youre not. The rest of it is just a lot of noise.
humble pie eating
I don't enjoy eating humble pie.
nice white smoking
I got killed against Morimoto. I brought out white plates with food; I thought that was really nice. He brings out sculptures of ice, Noah's ark made of balsa wood that he carved at his restaurant downstairs, smoking trees ... When I saw that, I looked at my sous chef and I'm like, we're toast.
next-day bed closure
I begin my day online and end my day online. I like to prepare myself for the next day and have a sense of closure before I go to bed.
cooking use helping
Everyone could use instructions on every aspect of cooking: pantry, storage, refrigeration, cooking, what to buy. Everyone that I come into contact with could use help.
wine glasses wife
Days off are few and far between in the restaurant business. But on an hour off, I like to have a glass of wine with my wife.
cooking kitchen ease
I love hospitality, and I love cooking. The kitchen is where I feel most at ease and where I feel most like myself.
wine buckets restaurants
I like old fashioned things. We have these old wine buckets at the restaurant and none of them match.
stars want chef
Everybody these days wants to be a star, including myself. Don't get me wrong, I'm a chef but you want to market yourself and your projects.
cooking way limits
I really don't limit myself in any way. I just search for great flavors and marriages wherever they come from.
long
I'll transform anything as long as it's edible.