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Alton Brown Chef, Television Personality
Cooks

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

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Anthony Bourdain Chef, Author, Television Personality
Cooks

"I’ve been really fortunate in that I guess I was hired to do A Cook’s Tour, I was already a known quantity, meaning I had written a really obnoxious book and nobody expected me to be anyone that I wasn’t already."

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Anthony Bourdain Chef, Author, Television Personality
Cooks

"When I cook, I generally stick with what I know, what I'm comfortable with, and what I feel I've paid my dues learning, and am good at."

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Tim Ferriss Author, Entrepreneur, Podcaster
Cooks

"Don’t follow a model that doesn't work. If the recipe sucks, it doesn't matter how good a cook you are."

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J. R. R. Tolkien Novelist, Scholar
Cooks

"please don't cook me, kind sirs! I am a good cook myself, and cook better than I cook, if you see what I mean."

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