Chef Quotes

• A great chef is an artist that I truly respect.

  Robert Stack

  Respect, Artist

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• I don't like food that's too carefully arranged; it makes me think that the chef is spending too much time arranging and not enough time cooking. If I wanted a picture I'd buy a painting.

  Andy Rooney

  Sarcastic, Food, Sarcasm

  "Eating Out With Andy Rooney; With Every Course, an Opinion" by Bryan Miller, www.nytimes.com. October 04, 1989.

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• A recipe has no soul. You, as the cook, must bring soul to the recipe.

  Thomas Keller

  Food, Home Cooking, Soul

  Thomas Keller (2016). “The French Laundry Cookbook”, p.2, Artisan Books

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• If you have a good experience in a restaurant, you tell 2 people. If you have a bad experience, you tell 10 people.

  Anthony Bourdain

  People, Restaurants, Bad Experiences

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• A jazz musician can improvise based on his knowledge of music. He understands how things go together. For a chef, once you have that basis, that's when cuisine is truly exciting.

  Charlie Trotter

  Food, Together, Musician

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• One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.

  Virginia Woolf

  Love, Food, Sleep

  1929 A Room of One's Own, ch.1.

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• I want to talk to the bullied kids of the world. Tell them to hang on, it will get better. Know that an 'Iron Chef,' actors, musicians, artists and all successful people have probably been bullied in their life. And the best part of your life is yet to come. Whatever it takes to live, do it!

  Cat Cora

  Kids, Successful, Artist

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• There's a bond among a kitchen staff, I think. You spend more time with your chef in the kitchen than you do with your own family.

  Gordon Ramsay

  Thinking, Kitchen, Staff

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• Kitchens should be designed around what's truly important-fun, food, and life.

  Daniel Boulud

  Life, Fun, Food

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• You don't have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces - just good food from fresh ingredients.

  Julia Child

  Positive, Food, Health

  FaceBook post by Julia Child from Nov 26, 2015

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• Being a chef is the best job in the world.

  Gordon Ramsay

  Jobs, Best Job, World

  Source: www.crushable.com

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• A good apprentice cook must be as polite with the dishwasher as with the chef.

  Fernand Point

  Food, Dishwashers, Polite

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• Techniques are not the most difficult to teach. The attitudes chefs take are much more important.

  Alain Ducasse

  Attitude, Important, Technique

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• I always had a fantasy of being a chef, because I like kitchen life.

  Geoffrey Rush

  Kitchen, Fantasy

  "The Life and Death of Peter Sellers". Interview with James Ashwood, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food.

  W. C. Fields

  Funny, Witty, Drinking

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• Chefs don't do ponytails and we shouldn't do them because I guarantee that whenever there's a discovery of hair in the food, it's guaranteed it's from the chef's ponytail.

  Gordon Ramsay

  Hair, Discovery, Guarantees That

  Source: www.crushable.com

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• I believe that food is one way to make people happy. I also believe that food can unite people from all walks of life and cultures. When we sit together and eat, we promote better understanding and harmony.Food brings love, peace and compassion to the table.

  Chef Wan

  Love, Life, Happiness

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• Let's face it: if you and I have the same capabilities, the same energy, the same staff, if the only thing that's different between you and me is the products we can get, and I can get a better product than you, I'm going to be a better chef.

  Thomas Keller

  Energy, Different, Faces

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

  Stephanie Izard

  Different, Circumstances

  Source: www.avclub.com

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

  Wolfgang Puck

  Together, Three, Sometimes

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

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• Cooking is like painting or writing a song. Just as there are only so many notes or colors, there are only so many flavors - it's how you combine them that sets you apart.

  Wolfgang Puck

  Song, Food, Writing

  "Puck Goes Back to His (Ginger) Roots". Interview with Perry Garfinkel, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 3, 2012.

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• I think every chef, not just in America, but across the world, has a double-edged sword - two jackets, one that's driven, a self-confessed perfectionist, thoroughbred, hate incompetence and switch off the stove, take off the jacket and become a family man.

  Gordon Ramsay

  Hate, Men, Thinking

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• I can't stand people that do not take food seriously.

  Oscar Wilde

  Food, People, Cooking

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• In normal life, 'simplicity' is synonymous with 'easy to do,' but when a chef uses the word, it means 'takes a lifetime to learn.'

  Bill Buford

  Mean, Simplicity, Use

  Bill Buford (2013). “Heat: An Amateur’s Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-maker and Apprentice to a Butcher in Tuscany”, p.100, Random House

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• The best way to learn to cook is to do some serious eating.

  Alexandra Guarnaschelli

  Way, Serious, Eating

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