Chef Quotes - Page 6

• I kind of think of engineering like the chefs at a restaurant. Nobody's going to deny chefs are integrally important, but there's also so many other people who contribute to a great meal.

  Ben Silbermann

  Thinking, Engineering, People

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• It's wild how chefs have become like rock stars.

  Todd English

  Stars, Rocks, Rock Star

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• I was a journeyman chef of middling abilities. Whatever authority I have as a commenter on this world comes from the sheer weight of 28 years in the business. I kicked around for 28 years and came out the other end alive and able to form a sentence.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Years, Alive, World

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• Collectively the media; the meat, oil, and dairy industries; most prominent chefs and cookbook authors; and our own government are not presenting accurate advice about the healthiest way to eat.

  Caldwell Esselstyn

  Government, Media, Oil

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• Organizing ahead of time makes the work more enjoyable. Chefs cut up the onions and have the ingredients lined up ahead of time and have them ready to go. When everything is organized you can clean as you go and it makes everything so much easier and fun.

  Anne Burrell

  Fun, Cutting, Onions

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• Pastry is different from cooking because you have to consider the chemistry, beauty and flavor. It's not just sugar and eggs thrown together. I tell my pastry chefs to be in tune for all of this. You have to be challenged by using secret or unusual ingredients.

  Ron Ben-Israel

  Eggs, Cooking, Secret

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• The reason that chefs become chefs is that they're not allowed into rooms with windows.

  A. A. Gill

  Rooms, Window, Reason

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• I have a very modern way of thinking; the chef is there to lead the team and not just to sit behind the piano.

  Alain Ducasse

  Team, Thinking, Piano

  " Amid gloss and glitter, Ducasse and his students cook up tasty revelations" by Randall H. Harber, www.cnn.com. June 30, 2000.

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• I was once in a long relationship with a man who ran a vintage clothes store but had been a chef, so I'd come home each night to a different three-course meal. I was quite fat, but so happy.

  Paloma Faith

  Home, Night, Men

  "Paloma Faith: 'I woo people with food, so I'm always cooking'". Interview with John Hind, www.theguardian.com. February 16, 2013.

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• I believe in eating smaller meals more often throughout the day to keep the metabolism going. Don't deprive yourself, just make better choices. At 50 years old it is definitely a lot harder to stay in shape then it was when I was in my 20's.

  Todd English

  Believe, Years, Choices

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• Top Chef is a very smooth-running machine. All the people working there are incredibly professional and absolutely at the top of their game.

  Toby Young

  Running, Games, People

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• I'd like to see 'Top Chef: Amateur'. Sometimes we have an amateur chef on the show and they just can't cut it against the pros but there are some great stories there.

  Tom Colicchio

  Cutting, Stories, Sometimes

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• Many of them have accomplished a lot before they ever get to 'Top Chef' although they're not well known. The show just provides them with a platform. There's just one winner and on some seasons you can get numerous chefs that are really good. Even if they don't win, they're all talented.

  Tom Colicchio

  Winning, Winner, Well Known

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• All the great chefs I know - Thomas Keller, Jean-Georges Vongerichten - they are technicians first.

  Jacques Pepin

  Firsts, Technicians, Knows

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• I'm a decent cook; I'm a decent chef. None of my friends would ever have hired me at any point in my career. Period.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Careers, Periods, Decent

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• Sauces comprise the honor and glory of French cookery. They have contributed to its superiority, or pre-eminence, which is disputed by none. Sauces are the orchestration and accompaniment of a fine meal, and enable a good chef or cook to demonstrate his talent.

  Curnonsky

  Honor, Meals, Sauce

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• Food should be fun, but it should also be functional.

  Robert Irvine

  Fun, Should

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• I like the fact that Melbourne always seems to support their chefs and promote them in ways I find really admirable.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Support, Way, Facts

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• The chef has kids complaining to their parents the food they get in school is better than what they get at home. He's turned this group of kids into curious, adventurous eaters.

  Marion Nestle

  Home, School, Kids

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• I wasn't that great a chef, and I don't think I'm that great a writer.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Thinking

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• I don't consider myself a rock star chef, I really don't. I cook for a living and I try to help out as many people as I can in my life and that's all I care about. I don't care about the fame of television, I use to a lot.

  Robert Irvine

  Stars, Rocks, People

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• The first thing Julian wanted to do in life, well, before he wanted to be an artist and then a musician, was to be a chef. He'd come home and say 'Why don't you bake cakes like my friends' mothers?' I'd say, 'Oh, Julian, go out and buy a Mary Baker cake mix and do it yourself!' That started him off! By the time he was 13, he'd disappear into the kitchen whenever we had visitors and emerge with beautiful canapes. Now he thinks nothing of cooking for ten or 15 people, and he does it so calmly.

  Cynthia Lennon

  Beautiful, Mother, Home

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• I was hired as a sous-chef at a restaurant on the Upper East Side. The chef liked to drink - some mornings we would find him sleeping. Two weeks after its opening, I became the chef. I was 20 years old, and way over my head. I had to hire the cooks and do the menus.

  Bobby Flay

  Morning, Sleep, Years

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• My contribution I hope is to get people to eat full-flavored food. If I could come away with that alone, that would be a fantastic accomplishment. I'm also very proud of being a very American chef.

  Bobby Flay

  Accomplishment, People, Proud

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• Over the years, Céline Labaune has been constantly seeking to source the highest quality truffles; her diligence and expertise truly set her apart.

  Grant Achatz

  Years, Quality, Lines

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