106 Quotes About Chef

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

It's like a kitchen, acting. Put a chef in a kitchen and they will have different recipes. Whatever your recipe, what works for you won't work for another.

I think in France, for example, we can say whatever we want about the French, but going out and dining is more about the intellectual moment to share with the people you dine with than trying to figure out what the chef did with that little piece of salmon or lobster and all that.

Dad worked on a railway as a steward on the dinning cars. He'd been a soldier, he'd been a sailor, and he was a chef in his later years.

We were there for the press conference. For a while, she was on house arrest, so she invited every department up to her farm in Bedford for dinner once a week. One night, the chef of Le Cirque restaurant was cooking for us, and that was really great. Her house was still being furnished, so here we were sitting in this unfurnished room with Martha.

Set yourself up for success from the very beginning and then focus on maintaining that success.

We are not really privy to all that crazy stuff that goes on in the show. I go to work, eat, and talk about food. The wild things happen when we aren't around. I expected Top Chef to last three or four seasons and we are now shooting season ten.

Great chefs know it's the appearance of food that counts...but great eaters know its the amount of food that counts

Men are always pushed into group situations ... like group sports with a leader. In the kitchen the chef is your captain, but in pastry there is more autonomy, more independence. Women relish that. you are permitted to be creative sooner than on the hot line.