Chef Quotes - Page 15

• In recent years, I've been writing because I'm fortunate enough to work in the world of food television, to travel and taste and learn about cooking from the best chefs in the business.

  Ted Allen

  Travel, Writing, Years

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

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• As I learned from chapters past, it's important to try and stay in the chapter that you're in, and enjoy it while it's lasting. Not be constantly worrying about where this step will take you - living in the potential future. Like a good meal. Like a good chef's tasting meal. You don't want to wonder what's next while you're eating the foie gras.

  Neil Patrick Harris

  Past, Worry, Important

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. September 16, 2008.

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• When I was a teenager, I worked in New Orleans for a chef named Paul Prudhomme. That was a very important time in my life as a chef. I developed my palate and learned a lot. And here I am now. I specialize in modern Mexican and contemporary Latin cuisines.

  Aaron Sanchez

  Teenager, Latin, New Orleans

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• Nobody likes sweaty coleslaw.

  Aaron Sanchez

  Likes

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• The great thing about chefs as celebrities is it gives you a larger stage to let people know how important great food is. You're able to reach a nation. The hardest thing about being a celebrity chef is you go from working 18-hour days in your kitchen to it pulling you out of your kitchen here and there. I used to be in my kitchen six or seven days a week, and for ten years I never even took a vacation.

  Michael Symon

  Vacation, People, Giving

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• Strange people like chefs, musicians, and politicians affect me.

  Jason Flemyng

  People, Musician, Strange

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• I wanted to work in a restaurant. Le Cirque was looking for a chef and they approached me. I was excited to be able to be part of this restaurant with an amazing reputation, but not a good one for food at the time. I made it clear that if I was coming to Le Cirque it was going to change.

  Daniel Boulud

  Reputation, Excited

  "The Daniel Boulud Experience". Interview with Rachel Small, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 20, 2013.

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

  Wilhelm II

  Food, Cooking, Germany

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

  Anthony Bourdain

  Pleasure

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• I was dishwasher, then promoted to chef in a local kitchen in a restaurant in Seattle, and I was working on a building site as well, putting in insulation and painting houses, and then doing some classes at a community college nearby.

  Alexis Denisof

  College, Class, House

  Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. February 11, 2003.

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• First and foremost I am a chef, whether behind the stove at one of my Northern California restaurants or for the past 15 years in front of the camera on my Food Network cooking shows. Creating new dishes and flavor combinations that bring cooks and our restaurant guests pleasure is my job and I love it.

  Tyler Florence

  Jobs, Past, California

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• The hardest thing about being a full time chef is leaving my work behind when I go home at night. I'll toss and turn about a menu item or forget to order produce and wake up at 4 A.M. in a cold sweat over some artichokes.

  Alexandra Guarnaschelli

  Home, Night, Order

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• I think that a lot of us at home are iron chefs in their own right in that we have to come up with meals real quickly.

  Jose Garces

  Real, Home, Thinking

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• I also want to go to an Italian island and do cuisine properly with some famous Italian chef and, like, his mother.

  Elizabeth Olsen

  Mother, Italian, Islands

  "Actress Elizabeth Olsen Travels with Sea Salt". Interview with Alyssa Shelasky, www.bonappetit.com. October 4, 2013.

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• I would love to date a chef. I'd probably get really fat, but I don't care.

  Elizabeth Olsen

  Care, Fats, Get Real

  "Actress Elizabeth Olsen Travels with Sea Salt". Interview with Alyssa Shelasky, www.bonappetit.com. October 4, 2013.

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• I was chef to the French Presidents between '56 and '59, finished with de Gaulle, and during de Gaulle I remember serving Eisenhower, Nehru, Tito, Macmillan; those were the heads of state at the time. I never saw anyone. No one would ever, ever, ever come to the kitchen. You couldn't even see them.

  Jacques Pepin

  Kitchen, President, Nehru

  "Jacques Pã©pin Is Not A Mallow Man" by Alexandria Symonds, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 25, 2012.

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• Probably a mistake, you know, that people make in America, to think that all great chefs are a male... I'm still the only male in the family who went into that business.

  Jacques Pepin

  Mistake, Thinking, America

  "Chef Jacques Pepin on Food and the Power of Memory" by Sarah Rosenberg, Tom Mccarthy, abcnews.go.com. September 15, 2009.

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

  Wolfgang Puck

  Today, Great Business, Enough

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• I still cook at home. A lot of chefs I think don't cook at home. But I still do, I love cooking at home, I love having friends.

  Rene Redzepi

  Home, Thinking, Cooking

  "Rene Redzepi: In His Own Words". ABC News Interview, abcnews.go.com. June 17, 2010.

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• Chefs have a new opportunity - and perhaps even an obligation - to inform the public about what is good to eat, and why.

  Rene Redzepi

  Opportunity, New Opportunity, Obligation

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

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

  Rene Redzepi

  Delight, Diners, Scientist

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I had turned down other head chef jobs. I didn't want to take over someone else's cuisine. I wanted to start from scratch.

  Rene Redzepi

  Jobs, Scratches, Want

  "René Redzepi: the outsider" by Sabine Durrant, www.theguardian.com. November 5, 2010.

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

  Rene Redzepi

  Father, Home

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• My husband is a musician. He cooks and he's a chef but he also, he makes basement recordings. So many people in my life make basement recordings, so I feel very lucky, I'm surrounded by very creative people.

  Dana Spiotta

  Husband, People, Creative

  "In 'Arabia,' Writing Life As You Wish You'd Lived It". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. September 22, 2011.

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• My late wife Olympia was Goan and I've been to India many times. I love the food there. We used to do our shopping in Southall, where you can find cheap but wonderful fruit like mangoes, vegetables and spices. I didn't do much of the cooking, as Olympia did a lot - I was the under-chef and did some of the chopping.

  Vince Cable

  Vegetables, Shopping, Wife

  "What's in your basket, Vince Cable?" by Rebecca Seal and Dr John Briffa, www.theguardian.com. December 5, 2009.

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