Chef Quotes:

Learning about issues such as sustainability and locavorism are things that you need to have as part of you as a chef because it will make you cook more delicious food.

source: "The innovators: arts and entertainment". www.theguardian.com. September 24, 2011.

topic: Opportunity, Chef, New Opportunity

Close interaction with farmers and scientists can expose the chef to new flavours that can be used to delight diners.

source: "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Issues, Needs, Chef, Delicious Food

I never cooked at home - my father was the chef.

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Delight, Diners, Chef, Flavour

A great chef is an artist that I truly respect.

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Father, Home, Chef

- Robert Stack

topic: Respect, Artist, Chef

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

- Rocco DiSpirito

topic: Fundraising, Chef, Helping, Willingness To Help, Camaraderie

If you've attended the Cordon Bleu, you would know that no woman is supposed to be a chef - only men.

- Sandra Lee

topic: Men, Chef

You're getting to know who the great chefs are through their books.

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

topic: Book, Chef

I came to understand that the words executive and corporate never belong next to the word chef.

topic: Chef, Wanted

In any restaurant of this caliber, the chefs are in the same position, building relationships.

topic: Next, Chef, Executives

I miss being fawned over by restaurateurs and chefs.

topic: Fundraising, Chef, Building, Caliber, Building Relationships

- Toby Young

topic: Missing, Chef

It's wild how chefs have become like rock stars.

- Todd English

topic: Stars, Rocks, Chef

Every chef should have an understanding of pastries or desserts.

I'd like to see 'Top Chef: Amateur'. Sometimes we have an amateur chef on the show and they just can't cut it against the pros but there are some great stories there.

source: "Top Chef's Tom Colicchio: Toby 'Didn't Have the Most Authoritative Voice'". Interview with Gina DiNunno, www.tvguide.com. June 22, 2010.

topic: Understanding, Chef, Dessert, Pastries

Many of them have accomplished a lot before they ever get to 'Top Chef' although they're not well known. The show just provides them with a platform. There's just one winner and on some seasons you can get numerous chefs that are really good. Even if they don't win, they're all talented.

topic: Cutting, Stories, Chef

'Chef' doesn't mean that you're the best cook, it simply means 'boss.'

topic: Winning, Chef, Winner, Not Well Known

I call all chefs 'cooks.' They're all cooks. That's what we do, we cook. You're a chef when you're running a kitchen.

topic: Mean, Boss, Chef, You Re The Best

I am the emperor of Germany, but you are the emperor of chefs.

topic: Running, Kitchen, Chef

- Wilhelm II

topic: Germany, Chef, Culinary

I'm a bit of a gourmet chef. I love cooking - mostly Thai food.

- Will Ferrell

topic: Cooking, Gourmet, Chef, Cooking Love, Cooking And Love

A chef is a mixture maybe of artistry and craft. You have to learn the craft really to get there.

A good chef has to be a manager, a businessman and a great cook. To marry all three together is sometimes difficult.

topic: Mixtures, Crafts, Chef

A lot of chefs are traditional and do it very well. But the ones who are the most successful are the ones who change things. That is why someone like Heston Blumenthal is a genius.

source: "Meet the Chef: Wolfgang Puck". The Daily Meal interview, www.thedailymeal.com. February 21, 2012.

topic: Together, Three, Chef

One thing I always say is being a great chef today is not enough - you have to be a great businessman.

topic: Successful, Genius, Chef

Now everybody thinks that once you do Top Chef, then 13 weeks later you're a chef. Nobody wants to learn to cook anymore.

topic: Today, Chef, Great Business, Great Businessman

If you were to go to a restaurant and disagree with Daniel Boulud, he'd probably throw something at you. Restaurant chefs have a problem with caterers because we accommodate special requests, but great service is about getting exactly what you want.

topic: Thinking, Want, Chef

- David Castle

topic: Special, Want, Chef, Great Service

I used to take culinary arts at Job Corps so I'm a certified chef. I could cook chicken alfredo.

- Gorilla Zoe

source: Source: www.complex.com

topic: Art, Jobs, Chef

[Eva Braun] would also refer to [Adolf Hitler] as "the boss" (der Chef), but she never called him "Adolf" or "Adi" to anyone after the very early days. It was always der FÃ¼hrer.

- Gretl Braun

topic: Boss, Chef

With more exposure comes more recognition. I can honestly say I wouldn't have gotten a lot of things had no one seen me on "Top Chef", win or not. It cast a very wide net for me. And fortunately in a great way. I love that I have been able to cook side by side with so many of my idols.

- Kristen Kish

source: Source: www.sheknows.com

topic: Winning, Recognition, Chef

TV is great and can open up doors, but if you aren't there to cook because you love it, don't go. Don't go to "Top Chef" just to be "famous." It's annoying to our profession and what we all love to do. You want to compete against like-minded people.

- Kristen Kish

source: Source: www.sheknows.com

topic: People, Chef, Annoying

I was the head chef on the S.S. Diarrhea.

- Mr. Krabs

topic: Chef, Diarrhea

I want to go as far as it will take me. I would love to go pro, but if that doesn't happen, I am a gourmet chef and would like to open my own restaurant.

- Paige VanZant

topic: Want, Gourmet, Chef

Part of being a good chef is being able to work well with others and make things work under different circumstances.

- Stephanie Izard

topic: Different, Chef, Circumstances

I think a lot of chefs can definitely think about great flavor combinations and stuff, but then they'll pass it along to their pastry chef to actually do it in the end. Pastries, you actually do using recipes, and it's got a little more of a science to it. It's something that a lot of times, chefs aren't really involved in coming up with throughout their career, so it makes it a little more challenging.

- Stephanie Izard

topic: Thinking, Challenges, Chef

Being on "Top Chef" opens a lot of doors and gives you a wider audience than you may have had before. It was super-scary when I first finished the show, having no idea what to expect and wondering why my Facebook was blowing up.

- Stephanie Izard

topic: Giving, Chef, Wonder

Nobody likes sweaty coleslaw.

- Aaron Sanchez

topic: Likes, Chef

I'd rather go with someone who wasn't a great speaker, but was a great chef, rather than someone who was a great performer, but maybe not a great cook.

- Matt Preston

source: Source: www.popsugar.com.au

topic: Chef, Speakers

I always loved cooking, from an early age. I kind of wanted to be a chef.

- Caleb Followill

source: Source: www.nashvillelifestyles.com

topic: Cooking, Age, Chef

If I had to have a favorite chef, I'd probably say I like Guy Fieri.

- G. Garvin

topic: Guy, Chef, Ifs

I'm one of those people who're good at everything but I'm not great at anything. I thought I'd be a chef or a teacher.

- Jesse Lacey

topic: Teacher, People, Chef

Before any exposure on TV, I'm a real chef.

- Chelsea Handler

source: Source: variety.com

topic: Real, Tvs, Chef

I have a theory that the people who cook in jails are British chefs.

- Steve Earle

topic: Jail, People, Chef

A chef who doesn't wash his hands is like a cop who steals. It's a cry for help.

- Jerry Seinfeld

source: "Fictional character: Jerry Seinfeld". 'Seinfeld' ('The Pie'), Season 5, Episode 15, February 17, 1994.

topic: Hands, Helping, Chef

The most poisonous source in any kitchen is a chef's ego.

- Marco Pierre White

source: Source: tart.org

topic: Ego, Kitchen, Chef

I would have thought you'd import an English staff?" "Good heavens, no! I would not wish a British chef on anyone except the French tax collectors.

- Dan Brown

source: Dan Brown (2004). “The Da Vinci Code”, Doubleday Books

topic: Heaven, Wish, Chef

I, alas, must present myself somewhat ignominiously as a chef in a busy kitchen. Somewhere a novel is bubbling on a back burner, an old attempt at history may come out of the freezer.

- Theodore White

topic: Kitchen, May, Chef, Freezer, Back Burner

Young chefs, famous chefs, home cooks, and everyone who loves food and cooking-we all depend on Larousse Gastronomique. It is the only culinary encyclopedia that is always up-to-date.

- Daniel Boulud

topic: Home, Cooking, Chef, Encyclopedia

The pendulum of cookery techniques became more significant than the actual experience. And when that happens, the customer's satisfaction becomes secondary to the chef's satisfaction. And in that case, you have an upside-down equation. Because the customer is the basis of our restaurant, first of all, and if the chef becomes the most important person at the table - even more so than the guests - then suddenly you're left with something that doesn't really work.

- Mario Batali

source: Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

topic: Important, Chef, Significant

People have no idea how much work it is for a man to produce an ejaculation. You have this seminal vesicle churning out this fluid, the prostate gland producing an alkaline solution. It's like having five iron chefs in your crotch working to cook up this stuff.

- Mark Leyner

source: Source: abcnews.go.com

topic: Men, People, Chef

Do we really require so many gardening programmes, makeover programmes or celebrity chefs?

- David Attenborough

source: "David Attenborough criticises BBC schedule". www.telegraph.co.uk. May 1, 2008.

topic: Gardening, Television, Chef, Makeovers

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

Having been a chef for some many years, I understand what it's like to work really, really hard to get good at something, only to have someone piss all over it.

topic: Chef, Pleasure

If you go to chefs all across America and ask them, 'What's your biggest problem right now?,' It is finding people to cook in their restaurants. They're having an enormous, countrywide problem here staffing their operations.

source: "Interview: Anthony Bourdain Is Ready To 'Get Jiro' With His New Food Focused Graphic Novel". Interview with Alex Zalben, www.mtv.com. June 26, 2012.

topic: Years, Chef, Over It

I’m a Twitter addict. Jose Andres is a serial tweeter. It’s funny to see which chefs have embraced it, and the different paths they take.

source: "A 'Brutally Honest' Taste Of Anthony Bourdain's Hunger Tour At Foxwoods". Interview with Leeanne Griffin, www.courant.com. September 26, 2016.

topic: America, People, Chef, Staffing

I'm a decent cook; I'm a decent chef. None of my friends would ever have hired me at any point in my career. Period.

source: "Anthony Bourdain Talks ‘No Reservations,’ ‘Hunger Games’ And The Death Of Angry Bobby Flay". Interview with Maggie Furlong, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 9, 2012.

topic: Different, Path, Chef, Different Paths

I wasn't that great a chef, and I don't think I'm that great a writer.

topic: Careers, Chef, Periods

I think it's a universal truth that most chefs I know are happiest eating simple, unadorned good things.

topic: Thinking, Chef