Chef quotes
143 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"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."
"You're getting to know who the great chefs are through their books."
"As a chef I’m not your dietitian or your ethicist, I’m in the pleasure business."
"In any restaurant of this caliber, the chefs are in the same position, building relationships."
"I wanted to learn everything I could about what it takes to be a great chef. It was a turning point for me."
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"I miss being fawned over by restaurateurs and chefs."
"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."
"I came to understand that the words executive and corporate never belong next to the word chef."
"The chef that grew up with the grandma who cooks tends to always beat the chef that went to the culinary institute. It's in the blood."
"Great chefs know it's the appearance of food that counts...but great eaters know its the amount of food that counts"
"If you have a good experience in a restaurant, you tell 2 people. If you have a bad experience, you tell 10 people."
"You never forget a beautiful thing that you have made. Even after you eat it, it stays with you - always."
"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."
"The worst food you'll ever eat will probably be prepared by a 'cook' who calls himself a 'chef.' Mark my words."
"Very good cooks who are employed as 'chefs' rarely refer to themselves as 'chefs.' They refer to themselves as 'cooks.'"
"I've been nominated for 12 Emmys, and we won - for 'Top Chef' - the only time I didn't go."
"I am so proud of 'Top Chef' - I think it's got great cred."
"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."
"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."
"Every chef I know, their cholesterol is through the roof. And mine's not so great."
"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."
"I wasn't that great a chef, and I don't think I'm that great a writer."
"I think it's a universal truth that most chefs I know are happiest eating simple, unadorned good things."
"I'm evangelical on the subject of some chefs and writers."
"If you've attended the Cordon Bleu, you would know that no woman is supposed to be a chef - only men."
