Chef Quotes - Page 20

• I wrote a mad, passionate letter to the best restaurant in the UK, Le Gavroche in London, and asked if I could work for them. They gave me a job as a dishwasher (Colin laughs). For me that was a joy because I had a foot in the door of this world class restaurant. Just being around the buzz and the pots and pans and the wonderful food and all this produce that was coming in, that was the start of Paul Rankin the chef.

  Paul Rankin

  Jobs, Feet, Doors

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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• You don't go to school to become the best chef in the world right after you graduate. School is always a starting point so what people forget is that you go to school to build a foundation, and you want to build a foundation that's not going to crumble.

  Roy Yamaguchi

  School, People, Foundation

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• Marcus Samuelsson is a chef who inspires me everyday. He has such a deep understanding of flavors and techniques. His food is representative of the diverse world that we live in. What he has done in Harlem with Red Rooster is very special. Marcus is not just a chef, he's a food activist.

  Aaron Sanchez

  Deep Understanding, Inspire, Everyday

  "Aaron Sanchez, Chef Of The Week". Interview with Cindy Y. Rodriguez, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 18, 2011.

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• When I was twelve, I decided to become a chef. I stole a book from the library about the greatest restaurants in France. I'd flip the pages and dream. I should return that book to the library some day.

  Eric Ripert

  Dream, Book, Library

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• Nine out of ten English chefs have their names on their chests. Who do they think they are? They're dreamers. They're jokes. Just ask yourself how many chefs in this country have Michelin stars and how many have their names on their jackets. We all wear blue aprons in my kitchen because we're all commis. We're all still learning.

  Marco Pierre White

  Country, Stars, Thinking

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• I was shocked when they told me congratulations, you won, that's the good news. Then the bad news is that you have six battles next week. That was a bit of a shocker. I was exhausted. And I had Chopped shooting that same week. I didn't have a sous chef lined up; I thought that was bad karma to try to think ahead. So I scrambled. I scrambled the jets, took off and we bombed our target. I think it's gone well.

  Geoffrey Zakarian

  Karma, Congratulations, Thinking

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• With cult foods, there is an underlying assumption that the best cooking ideas came generations ago. Yet culinary innovation is nothing to be ashamed of. When a chef tells me he is cooking with his grandmother's recipe, I always wonder why. Did talent skip the past two generations?

  Nathan Myhrvold

  Grandmother, Past, Ideas

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• 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.

  Wolfgang Puck

  Successful, Genius, Wells

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• Millions of American women, and some men, commit that outrage every summer day. They are turning a superb treat into mere provender. Shucked and boiled in water, sweet corn is edible and nutritious; roasted in the husk in the hottest possible oven for forty minutes, shucked at the table, and buttered and salted, nothing else, it is ambrosia. No chef’s ingenuity and imagination have ever created a finer dish. American women should themselves be boiled in water.

  Rex Stout

  Summer, Sweet, Men

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• If I want popularity, I go to a chef's convention.

  Nathan Myhrvold

  Want, Popularity, Conventions

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• All chefs are like Jewish mothers. They want to feed you and feed you and impress you. It's an eagerness to please.

  Padma Lakshmi

  Inspiring, Mothers Day, Want

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• Chef's choice is my favorite. I'm super adventurous.

  Neil Patrick Harris

  Choices, Adventurous, My Favorite

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• I have a pet lizard named Puff, five goldfish - named Pinky, Brain, Jowels, Pearl and Sandy, an oscar fish named Chef, two pacus, an albino African frog named Whitey, a bonsai tree, four Venus flytraps, a fruit fly farm and sea monkeys.

  Chris Pratt

  Sea, Fruit Flies, Two

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

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  Chefs are nutters. They're all self-obsessed, delicate, dainty, insecure little souls and absolute psychopaths. Every last one of them.

  Gordon Ramsay

  Insecure, Self, Soul

  "Q&A: Gordon Ramsay Will Chew People Out, But Won't Eat Them". Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.vanityfair.com. July 24, 2009.

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• This is April," he said, holding up the chicken. "She's the only friend I have left. I saved her from an evil chef at Tavern on the Green, and we've pledged eternal friendship.

  Kirsten Miller

  Evil, Taverns, Green

  Kirsten Miller (2011). “Kiki Strike: The Empress's Tomb”, p.116, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• One of the biggest problems with young chefs is too much addition to the plate. You put cilantro and then tarragon and then olive oil and then walnut oil or whatever. It's too much.

  Jacques Pepin

  Oil, Too Much, Olives

  "Chef Jacques Pepin Eats Airport Hot Dogs, Rarely Spends More than $12 on Wine". The Bon Appétit Magazine Interview, www.bonappetit.com. November 14, 2011.

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• My husband cooks fancier food for himself than I've ever cooked on-air. I call him from the road, and he's making champagne-vanilla salmon or black-cherry pork chop. Half of me is feeling unworthy. Not only am I not a chef, I'm not a better cook than my own husband!

  Rachael Ray

  Husband, Air, Feelings

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• I was lucky enough to marry a wonderful chef.

  Mehmet Oz

  Lucky, Wonderful, Enough

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• I was lucky enough to have great mentors both in the culinary world and in the world of chefs who became celebrities. Bobby Flay is one of my dearest friends and a tremendous mentor for me. Mario Batali is the same way. They began doing TV a little before me and they showed me the way.

  Michael Symon

  Mentor, Lucky, World

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• People aren't either wicked or noble. They're like chef's salads, with good things and bad things chopped and mixed together in a vinaigrette of confusion and conflict.

  Daniel Handler

  Life, Thinking, People

  "A Series of Unfortunate Events". Adventure, Comedy, Family, 2004.

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• It's very tempting to have a nanny and live in a gated community and have a chef - I'd love to have a few dinners cooked for me. But I don't want that for my children. When they're older, if people say to them, 'Did you have a chef?' I want them to be shocked by the question.

  Kate Winslet

  Children, People, Community

  "Kate Best at 30". Cosmopolitain Interview, www.cosmopolitan.com. June 08, 2009.

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• Miss Wormwood: Calvin, your test was an absolute disgrace! It's obvious you haven't read any of the material. Our first president was not Chef Boy-Ar-Dee and you ought to be ashamed to have turned in such preposterous answers! Calvin: I just don't test well.

  Bill Watterson

  Boys, Missing, President

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• It doesn't matter one damn bit whether fashion is art or not. You don't question whether an incredible chef is an artist or not-his cakes are delicious and that's all that matters.

  Sonia Rykiel

  Fashion, Art, Cake

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• It's not sticky unless it touches itself.

  Anne Burrell

  Sticky

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• I love Gossip Girl. I used to hang out with Blake Lively and Jessica Szohr. I'm also addicted to Bravo and reality shows like Top Chef.

  Jessica Stroup

  Girl, Reality, Gossip

  "90210's Jessica Stroup Gives Us The Scoop!". Seventeen Magazine Intreview, www.seventeen.com. February 2, 2009.

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