Chef Quotes - Page 21

• You don't become a chef to become famous.

  Eric Ripert

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• My new shorty got a gymnastic back,
  '87 emerald green on a classic Jag.
  She had the cleft palate, I ordered chef's salad;
  She had the club foot, with that little arm,
  I couldn't help but laugh...she ordered Chicken Parm.

  Action Bronson

  Rap, Feet, Laughing

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• Something I didn't even know was on my bucket list has been achieved. I have cooked Thanksgiving dinner with Martha Stewart. I vow to follow the gospel of her teachings and do my very best in the remarkably less glamorous kitchen of my own home... without the luxury of magically appearing prep bowls filled by a staff of sous chefs.

  Jesse Tyler Ferguson

  Thanksgiving, Teaching, Home

  "Turkey Day" by Jesse Tyler Ferguson, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 22, 2011.

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• 'The chef on duty will constantly point out the time, name the next project, and finish with 'push!' The entire team then calls it back. It is a simple one, but it gives me goosebumps every time.

  Jorge Hernandez

  Team, Simple, Names

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• Spinach and champagne. Going back to the kitchens at the old Waldorf. Dancing on the kitchen tables, wearing the chef's headgear. Finally, a crash and being escorted out by the house detectives.

  Zelda Fitzgerald

  Dancing, House, Kitchen

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• There's not much you can do about time - it just keeps on passing. But experience? Don't tell me that. I'm not proud of it, but I don't have any sexual desire. And what sort of experience can a writer have if she doesn't feel passion? It'd be like a chef without an appetite.

  Haruki Murakami

  Passion, Desire, Proud

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• When I was a kid, I have two dreams. I want to be a baseball player. Hometown, Hiroshima, has a Japanese baseball franchise team called Hiroshima Carps. You know, and then I want to be a sushi chef. I want to make own restaurant - sushi restaurant.

  Masaharu Morimoto

  Baseball, Dream, Team

  "Talk Asia", www.cnn.com. February 11, 2012.

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• When the idea of 'Chopped' surfaced, it was originally meant to be taped at some guy's mansion with him and his crazy Chihuahua. A stuffy fellow in a tuxedo was to host, and the losing chef's dish was then fed to the dog! I am not kidding, I saw it! I think it is genius! Twisted, but genius!

  Ted Allen

  Dog, Crazy, Thinking

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

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• It's okay if you finish cooking something easy after your guests arrive - some dishes must be prepared a la minute, as chefs say. Just remember to keep talking.

  Ted Allen

  Talking, Cooking, Guests

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• 'Chef' doesn't mean that you're the best cook, it simply means 'boss.'

  Tom Colicchio

  Mean, Boss, You Re The Best

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• If I could go back and give myself advice, it would be to embrace failure.

  Mary Sue Milliken

  Giving, Advice, Would Be

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• Just like keeping a healthy diet is important to maintaining a healthy lifestyle, eating the right foods is just as important for getting the most out of your workout.

  Marcus Samuelsson

  Workout, Healthy, Important

  "8 Recipes for the Best Workout" by Marcus Samuelsson, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 19, 2012.

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• Cookbooks have all become baroque and very predictable. I'm looking for something different. A lot of chefs' cookbooks are food as it's done in the restaurants, but they are dumbed down, and I hate it when they dumb them down.

  Mario Batali

  Hate, Dumb, Different

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• By the time I was 30, nobody would work with me. I was friendless, I was hopeless, I was suicidal, lost my family - I mean, it was bad. Bottomed out, didn't know what I was going to do. I actually thought I was going to be a chef - go to work in a kitchen someplace.

  Glenn Beck

  Suicidal, Mean, Kitchen

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• Chefs are fond of hyperbole, so they can certainly talk that way. But on the whole, I think they probably have a more open mind than most people.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Thinking, People, Mind

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• When I'm back in New York - and this is a terrible thing to complain about - I eat a lot more really, really good food than perhaps I'd like to. So many of my friends are really good chefs. It's kind of like being in the Mafia.

  Anthony Bourdain

  New York, Mafia, Complaining

  Interview with Sean O'Neal, www.avclub.com. January 8, 2008.

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• Bad food is made without pride, by cooks who have no pride, and no love. Bad food is made by chefs who are indifferent, or who are trying to be everything to everybody, who are trying to please everyone. Bad food is fake food, food that shows fear and lack of confidence in people's ability to discern or to make decisions about their lives.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Pride, People, Fake

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

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• 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.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Soy Sauce, Sushi, Wasabi

  "Anthony Bourdain Is Ready To 'Get Jiro' With His New Food Focused Graphic Novel". Interview with Alex Zalben, www.mtv.com. June 26, 2012.

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• You need to know your craft.

  Lorena Garcia

  Needs, Crafts, Knows

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• If an architect makes a mistake, he grows ivy to cover it. If a doctor makes a mistake, he covers it with soil. If a cook makes a mistake, he covers it with some sauce and says it is a new recipe.

  Paul Bocuse

  Mistake, Doctors, Ivy

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• Don't take a butcher's advice on how to cook meat. If he knew, he'd be a chef.

  Andy Rooney

  Food, Advice, Cooking

  Andrew A. Rooney (2010). “Andy Rooney: 60 Years of Wisdom and Wit”, p.265, PublicAffairs

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• If I walk into a place, a party, say, and there's a bookshelf, I immediately gravitate toward it. Unless there's a bar. But even then, it's only a matter of a few rounds before I make my way to the bookshelf. If there are good books on it, I may never leave the spot all night. Anybody I really want to talk to is going to make his or her way to that bookshelf sooner or later, anyway, right? Books are a nexus. They start conversations, and they continue conversations, and they make people better conversationalists. I have not found this to be the case with Iron Chef, or even alcohol.

  Jonathan Evison

  Party, Book, Night

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• Male egos require constant stroking. Every task is an achievement, every success epic. That is why women cook, but men are chefs: we make cheese on toast, they produce pain de fromage.

  Belle de Jour

  Pain, Epic, Men

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• I always say this to the young chefs and mean it: The customer is excited, he says you are an artist, but we are not, just craftspeople with a little talent. If the chef is an artist, he doesn’t succeed. Why? Because he is inspired today but not tomorrow. We cannot do that.

  Andre Soltner

  Mean, Artist, Littles

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• To be tempted and indulged by the city's most brilliant chefs. It's the dream of every one of us in love with food.

  Gael Greene

  Dream, Food, Cities

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