Chef Quotes - Page 7

• Céline Labaune has the knowledge, passion and dedication to finding us only the best truffles from the most reliable source of truffle pickers. It is always a pleasure and a relief to work with the ones who care the most!

  Daniel Boulud

  Passion, Dedication, Who Cares

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• Long Island for me, it's producing more chefs coming out of there than Paris.

  Gordon Ramsay

  Islands, Paris, Long

  Source: www.crushable.com

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• With such a perishable, expensive and important product buying truffles can be a leap of faith for a chef. Working with Céline over the past two years has taken away any of that stress. The level of quality and consistency with her truffles is unsurpassed. Most importantly the quality and loyalty of her service makes me feel that she is looking out for me and my guests interests in giving me an honest assessment of the markets fluctuations.

  Douglas Keane

  Loyalty, Stress, Taken

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• Chef cookin for me They say my shoe game crazy The mental asylum lookin for me

  Nicki Minaj

  Crazy, Games, Shoes

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• I spent time at my grandfather Dino's gourmet store where he brought in chefs from Naples to cook. I thought of them as rock stars.

  Giada De Laurentiis

  Stars, Rocks, Grandfather

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• Last week I told my wife, If you would learn to cook, I could fire the chef. She said, If you could learn to make love, I could fire the chauffer.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Fire, Wife, Making Love

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• I have this wonderful personal chef who sources and stocks all my organic produce and I basically live on five smoothies a day. I'm totally vegan. I blend this green concoction with kale, cucumber, broccoli, string beans, avocado. My protein comes from protein powder. There is absolutely no milk, butter, cheese.

  Larry Hagman

  Kale, Green, Cucumbers

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• The truth is that since the first book, I have wanted to emulate Benjamin Franklin and put together a healthy, wealthy and wise trilogy and so healthy was 'The 4-Hour Body,' wealthy was 'The 4-Hour Workweek' and then wise is 'The 4-Hour Chef.'

  Tim Ferriss

  Wise, Book, Healthy

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• I'm a bit of a gourmet chef. I love cooking - mostly Thai food.

  Will Ferrell

  Cooking, Gourmet, Thai

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• If the same family were always on the bottom, then you'd have big resentments. But if DuPonts go down and Pampered Chef up, [that's good]. That much churn makes people think the system is fairer. Buffett: We don't like churn now, but we liked it more 30-40 years ago.

  Charlie Munger

  Thinking, Years, People

  Charlie Munger's advice on life and other at the 2003 Berkshire Hathaway Annual Meeting, www.tilsonfunds.com. May 3, 2003.

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• My reasons for becoming a chef are somewhat of a cliche. I always loved to eat but it was watching my parents cook that really served as the impetus for my career choice.

  Alexandra Guarnaschelli

  Careers, Choices, Parent

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• I love doing demonstrations. I think to be a great chef you have to be a great teacher. I love doing classes with people who love food and enjoy food, bringing them all around one table so to speak.

  Michael Symon

  Teacher, Thinking, Class

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• Food's delicate. You have to handle it with finesse. You can't just be a big ogre.

  April Bloomfield

  Finesse, Bigs, Delicate

  "Burger Queen" by Lauren Collins, www.newyorker.com. November 22, 2010.

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• My family truly believes they are better cooks than I am. They see me as Giada, not as a celebrity chef. To them I'm just me - their granddaughter, niece, etc., and they're older and wiser. I like that because it keeps you grounded.

  Giada De Laurentiis

  Niece, Believe, Granddaughter

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• No matter what it is you are cooking, buy the best ingredients you can afford. I don't care if it's a simple salad or Beef Wellington. A quality product stands alone and won't need any dressing up.

  Joe Bastianich

  Simple, Dressing Up, Cooking

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• I'm not a trained chef, so I end up making stuff up. It either turns out brilliant or an absolute disaster. I just go for it.

  Eric Balfour

  Stuff, Brilliant, Disaster

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• You ought to have seen Frédéric with his monocle, his greying whiskers, his calm demeanour, carving his plump quack-quack, trussed and already flamed, throwing it into the pan, preparing the sauce, salting and peppering like Claude Monet's paintings, with the seriousness of a judge and the precision of a mathematician, and opening up, with a sure hand, in advance, every perspective of taste.

  Leon Daudet

  Opening Up, Ducks, Hands

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• If he is thin, I will probably dine poorly. If he is both thin and sad, the only hope is in flight.

  Fernand Point

  Flight, Dine, Ifs

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• You can enjoy a $15 bottle of wine as much as you can enjoy a $100 bottle of wine.

  Joe Bastianich

  Wine, Bottles, Enjoy

  "Joe Bastianich reveals restaurants' dark secrets, talks lawsuit". Interview with Matt Lauer, www.today.com. May 1, 2012.

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• Even the most astute chefs seek out the assistance of Celine Labaune, owner of Gourmet Attitude, because they know they can rely on her keen senses and deep understanding of the truffle trade.

  Thomas Keller

  Attitude, Deep Understanding, Gourmet

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• Success is best when it is shared.

  Howard Schultz

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• It is important to work with purveyors who share our high standards and are discriminating about the products they supply. This has been the foundation of a long and loyal relationship with Gourmet Attitude, a supplier that has helped us offer our guests some of the highest quality imported truffles available in the U.S.

  David Breeden

  Attitude, Long, Important

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• As a chef, I had started working with groups like Share Our Strength and various local food banks in New York, raising money for hunger-related issues. And not only me, but the entire restaurant industry has been very focused on this issue.

  Tom Colicchio

  New York, Issues, Groups

  "Tom Colicchio on solving the hunger problem in America". Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. February 28, 2013.

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• Too often, chefs just want to experiment - they want to use liquid nitrogen before they know how to use heat.

  Tom Colicchio

  Use, Nitrogen, Want

  "The Hot Seat: Tom Colicchio". Interview with Billie Cohen, www.timeout.com. November 11 2008.

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• I'm not just a female chef. I'm a woman in a brand new hotel, and that's why I think it's so perfect to be at the Cromwell, in a corner of one of the busiest intersections of the world, with my name in lights. It's different in all those sorts of ways, and I'm hoping I'll be able to carry that through. Because if I can't, it's a step back for women in general. People will say - men will say - "See, that's why it's mostly men".

  Giada De Laurentiis

  Men, Thinking, People

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