[Top 400+] Inspirational Chef Quotes About Food Lover

“Whatever you do, do with determination. You have one life to live; do your work with passion and give your best. Whether you want to be a chef, doctor, actor, or a mother, be passionate to get the best result.”

– Alia Bhatt

“If you’re a happy person around food, you can be a professional chef. It’s fueled by passion.”

– Ranveer Brar

“I always had a fantasy of being a chef, because I like kitchen life.”

– Geoffrey Rush

“To me, there’s no great chef without a great team.”

– Daniel Boulud

“I always say that I don’t believe I’m a chef. I try to be a storyteller.”

– Jose Andres

“I tell a student that the most important class you can take is technique. A great chef is first a great technician. ‘If you are a jeweler, or a surgeon or a cook, you have to know the trade in your hand. You have to learn the process. You learn it through endless repetition until it belongs to you.”

– Jacques Pepin

“If I hadn’t become a chef I would have loved to be a top tennis player, although I was never good enough so it wasn’t really an option. But that has never dimmed my love of the game, which started in childhood when I was lucky enough to be a ball boy at Wimbledon.”

– Ainsley Harriott

“I don’t like food that’s too carefully arranged; it makes me think that the chef is spending too much time arranging and not enough time cooking. If I wanted a picture I’d buy a painting.”

– Andy Rooney

“The restaurants express the spirit of the chef, the spirit of the city, the country.”

– Alain Ducasse

“I have a chef who makes sure that I’m getting the right amounts of carbs, proteins and fats throughout the day to keep me at my max performance level.”

– Barry Bonds

“There are divisions between a culinary chef and a dessert chef, also called a pastry chef. There are specializations within the pastry chef field. Some pastry chefs specialize in baking breads, while others are master cake designers. Each field requires an exceptional level of creativity and attention to detail.”

– Ron Ben-Israel

“I was chef to the French Presidents between ’56 and ’59, finished with de Gaulle, and during de Gaulle I remember serving Eisenhower, Nehru, Tito, Macmillan; those were the heads of state at the time. I never saw anyone. No one would ever, ever, ever come to the kitchen. You couldn’t even see them.”

– Jacques Pepin

“I really don’t care for the proper chef coat.”

– David Chang

“Everyone has days when things can go wrong. That doesn’t make you a bad pastry chef – that makes you human.”

– Johnny Iuzzini

“You have to balance, but you can be aggressive as a chef. It benefits the food. You have to be passionate. You can’t be angry cooking.”

– Marcus Samuelsson

“I’m not a chef. But I’m passionate about food – the tradition of it, cooking it, and sharing it.”

– Zac Posen

“I’m not a chef. But I’m passionate about food – the tradition of it, cooking it, and sharing it.”

– Zac Posen

“Being a chef is about feeding people, which is part of the story of all humanity.”

– Dominique Crenn

“Cooking is not difficult. Everyone has taste, even if they don’t realize it. Even if you’re not a great chef, there’s nothing to stop you understanding the difference between what tastes good and what doesn’t.”

– Gerard Depardieu

“As a boss, as a CEO, as a creative director, as a chef, I’ve learned that failure will always come. I’ve learned to give it a big squeeze, smile at it, humble myself to it and then use it as a springboard to send me on my way to strength, success, and fulfillment.”

– Christina Tosi

“As a chef, I love to travel and taste different cuisine styles and different flavours.”

– Jock Zonfrillo

“As a chef, I love to travel and taste different cuisine styles and different flavours.”

– Jock Zonfrillo

“Being a chef would be too much hard work.”

– Sophie Ellis-Bextor

“I always knew I wanted to be a chef.”

– Grant Achatz

“I’ve tried my hardest to bribe my chef, but my team have been clever and hired someone who not only is not bribeable but who chases me round the house and makes sure I eat what he’s cooked, and he lays out my vitamin pills and supplements in front of me so I can’t ‘forget’ to take them.”

– Usain Bolt

“I’ve been a cook all my life, but I am still learning to be a good chef. I’m always learning new techniques and improving beyond my own knowledge because there is always something new to learn and new horizons to discover.”

– Jose Andres

“I have spent more time in my life working and being in restaurants than being at home. I immediately feel comfortable entering a restaurant, and I feel even more comfortable in the back with the chef and cooks.”

– Jacques Torres

“Chefs have always been leaders, but now, because of social media and the evolution of the chef identity, we have a voice that expands beyond cooking.”

– Roy Choi

“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

“I have a chef who cooks for me. I like to eat healthy.”

– Sadio Mane

“If you are a chef, no matter how good a chef you are, it’s not good cooking for yourself; the joy is in cooking for others – it’s the same with music.”

– Will. I. Am

“If you want to become a great chef, you have to work with great chefs. And that’s exactly what I did.”

– Gordon Ramsay

“I have dreams of becoming a professional pastry chef and having a little bakery – that’s how much I love baking. I love to cook in general, but my heart lies in desserts.”

– Kim Barnouin

“If you’re not the one cooking, stay out of the way and compliment the chef.”

– Michael Strahan

“A chef is a mixture maybe of artistry and craft. You have to learn the craft really to get there.”

– Wolfgang Puck

“I really feel I have found myself as a chef. It’s very clear to me what I want to do – and how it should taste.”

– Daniel Humm

“No great pastry chef has sweet teeth.”

– Morley Safer

“I would love to date a chef. I’d probably get really fat, but I don’t care.”

– Elizabeth Olsen

“As a chef, if I can taste something, I can basically figure out what’s in it.”

– Kelis

“The night before Tilbury, the Cordon Bleu gourmet dinner turned out Cordon Brown. Six out of ten to the chef for trying and ten out of ten to us for eating it.”

– Spike Milligan

“You don’t have to be a chef or even a particularly good cook to experience proper kitchen alchemy: the moment when ingredients combine to form something more delectable than the sum of their parts.”

– Erin Morgenstern

“I made a point of eating so fast I never kept the other people waiting who generally ordered only chef’s salad and grapefruit juice because they were trying to reduce. Almost everybody I met in New York was trying to reduce.”

– Sylvia Plath

“There is an old story that says that Julia Child dropped a chicken on the floor when she was filming ‘The French Chef.’ And then – that, in fact, is not true. She just, you know, dropped some potatoes she was trying to flip in a pan.”

– Kathleen Flinn

“I’d be a chef if I wasn’t a musician, that’s for sure.”

– Orianthi

“The chef can be very innovative, but the decision is made by the customer.”

– Barry Lam

“I would have these massive eating sessions with my chef friends where we’d go out for a whole day and eat all of the things, and it never occurred to me once that all of my friends are dudes who are six-foot-something or 150 kilos. I would just match them to the toe.”

– Melissa Leong

“The painter, sculptor, writer, and musician are protected by law. So are inventors. But the chef has absolutely no redress for plagiarism on his work; on the contrary, the more the latter is liked and appreciated, the more will people clamour for his recipes.”

– Auguste Escoffier

“‘Chef’ doesn’t mean that you’re the best cook, it simply means ‘boss.'”

– Tom Colicchio

“A great chef is an artist that I truly respect.”

– Robert Stack

“A chef’s palate is born out of his childhood, and one thing all chefs have in common is a mother who can cook.”

– Marco Pierre White

“I feel like a princess with a knife. I’ve wanted to be an Iron Chef forever.”

– Alex Guarnaschelli

“Anyone who’s a chef, who loves food, ultimately knows that all that matters is: ‘Is it good? Does it give pleasure?'”

– Anthony Bourdain

“Get to know the Chef and you will start to enjoy dining out even more.”

– John Walters

“Chef’s choice is my favorite. I’m super adventurous.”

– Neil Patrick Harris

“The biggest challenge of being a pastry chef is that, unlike other types of chefs, you can’t throw things together at a farmer’s market. When you’re working with baking powder and a formula, you have to be exact. If not, things can go wrong.”

– Carla Hall

“The worst food you’ll ever eat will probably be prepared by a ‘cook’ who calls himself a ‘chef.’ Mark my words.”

– Alton Brown

“You have to be confident in who you are and what you’re doing. Of course, you try to evolve. I would never tell you, ‘Today is the best I will ever be.’ I’m always trying to be a better chef, a better dad, a better person.”

– Guy Fieri

“If you want to express yourself, it is difficult to be by yourself. You must have people around you who understand the same music. It is like being the chef d’orchestra. They need you, but you need them desperately.”

– Hubert de Givenchy

“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

“My aunt is a famous L.A. chef, Susan Feniger, and she’s got Street and Border Grill. So a fun night out for me is to go to my aunt’s restaurants.”

– Ben Feldman

“My Mum was the main reason why I became a chef. She influenced all of my family to feel free in the kitchen – it was the centre of our home and I have wonderful memories of helping Mum cook and experiencing the love and patience that went into the food.”

– Ainsley Harriott

“I was working for a chef a long time ago who told me to not skip steps or be in a hurry. Success in a kitchen is more like a marathon and less like a sprint. Rising up the ranks too quickly isn’t necessarily a good thing. This advice was from a guy who was sorry he had done that and didn’t want me to do the same.”

– Wylie Dufresne

“I’m not serving a menu, I’m serving a story. I’m serving my soul. I’m serving a conversation, and I want you to talk back to me.”

– Dominque Crenn

“Preparing food is one of life’s great joys, but a lot of times, parents ask their kids if they want to cook with them and then tell them to go peel a bag of potatoes. That’s not cooking – that’s working!” – Guy Fieri

“The way you make an omelet reveals your character”.

– Anthony Bourdain

“When you run a kitchen, no matter how crazy and chaotic it gets, you have to be the calm one. You cannot show any sign of fear — the guests pick up on it. The beauty of this kitchen, though, is that everybody helps everybody.”

– Nina Compton

“Mastering one recipe is better than mastering too many. Learn something and own it, and you’ll feel so much better about it. You’ll have more confidence if you’ve made it five times, and that confidence adds so much fun to cooking.”

– Tom Douglas

“Clean plates don’t lie.”

– Dan Barber

“Boning is a pain, but it makes such a majestic chicken.”

– Daniel Boulud

“Cooking is one of the most zen things – you have to be there.”

– Roy Choi

“Cooking is not a craft to get into for money. The money may come, or it may not. But you must get into it for the craft and the culture.”

– Roy Choi

“A recipe has no soul. You, as the cook, must bring soul to the recipe.”

– Thomas Keller

“Gastronomy is the greatest form of therapy that anyone can be exposed to.”

– Marco Pierre White

“If you think well, you cook well.”

– Ferran Adria

“Your classic guacamole is just avocados, lime juice, and salt.”

– Guy Fieri

“Anchovies pair really well with fruit like a nectarines or clementine. The fruit complements the sweetness and saltiness of the anchovy.”

– Jose Andres

“The most important thing for me is to really buy the best ingredient.”

– Wolfgang Puck

“It’s like a soul satisfying feeling when you’re eating something that just really hits your heart.”

– Nina Compton

“Simple ingredients prepared in a simple way – that’s the best way to take your everyday cooking to a higher level.”

– Jose Andres

“To have a basic ingredient that can be prepared a million different ways is a beautiful thing.”

– Alice Waters

“Every ingredient on the plate needs to have a strong role. It can be a supporting role or it can be the main role, but it has to have more purpose than just adding color to the plate.”

– Anita Lo

“It’s a challenge to demonstrate that you can prepare some really interesting food with humble ingredients.”

– Charlie Trotter

“I appreciate the constant evolution in refining food, but not in making food gimmicky.”

– Daniel Boulud

“Without butter, without eggs, there is no reason to come to France.”

– Paul Bocuse

“I look forward to the spring vegetables because the season is so short. Mushrooms, edible foraged herbs, wild leeks, early season asparagus.”

– David Chang

“Good food is very often, even most often, simple food.”

– Anthony Bourdain

“I love to roast vegetables – carrots, fennel, and so on. I also love to mash or puree pretty much any vegetable!”

– April Bloomfield

“Chicken breast is the driest, [most] tasteless part of the chicken as far as I’m concerned.”

– Paula Deen

“When you have the best and tastiest ingredients, you can cook very simply and the food will be extraordinary because it tastes like what it is.”

– Alice Waters

“I like a well-roasted rotisserie chicken and eggs cooked various ways, like sunny-side up or scrambled. It’s comfort food for me.”

– Joel Robuchon

“You need an entire life just to know about tomatoes.”

– Ferran Adria

“Good food is a good trend.”

– Thomas Keller

“Well, cooking starts with shopping. If the ingredients are not good, you don’t do it. Just change your mind and do something else.”

– Eric Ripert

“I believe it’s a cook’s moral obligation to add more butter given the chance.”

– Michael Ruhlman

“And don’t forget music – music in the kitchen is an essential ingredient!”

– Thomas Keller

“You gotta have good olive oil. You should have a cooking olive oil and you should have a finishing olive oil, like an extra-virgin olive oil.”

– Emeril Lagasse

“I love garlic, and I use it often.”

– Eric Ripert

“Two key ingredients in any successful chef: a quick learner and someone with a sharp brain.”

– Gordon Ramsay

“I will never use a substitute for butter. Margarine is one molecule away from eating plastic.”

– Paula Deen

“Anyone who tries to make brownies without butter should be arrested.”

– Ina Garten

“The most important thing is to snack on things that are filled with real food and nourishing ingredients that will leave you feeling energised and happy.”

– Ella Woodward

“A well-made salad must have a certain uniformity; it should make perfect sense for those ingredients to share a bowl.”

– Yotam Ottolenghi

“No matter what the recipe, any baker can do wonders in the kitchen with some good ingredients and an upbeat attitude!”

– Buddy Valastro

“I have stood on a mountain of no’s for one yes.”

– B. Smith

“I’ve had a lot of success; I’ve had failures, so I learn from the failure.”

– Gordon Ramsay

“If you learn something new every day, you can teach something new every day.”

– Martha Stewart

“When you have made as many mistakes as I have, then you can be as good as me.”

– Wolfgang Puck

“Take risks and you’ll get the payoffs. Learn from your mistakes until you succeed.”

– Bobby Flay

“Never be a food snob. Learn from everyone you meet – the fish guy at your market, the lady at the local diner, farmers, cheese makers. Ask questions, try everything and eat up!”

– Rachael Ray

“If you want to become a great chef, you have to work with great chefs. And that’s exactly what I did.”

– Gordon Ramsay

“Don’t go and cook Indian food if you never cooked Indian food, you know?”

– Wolfgang Puck

“I’ve been a cook all my life, but I am still learning to be a good chef. I’m always learning new techniques and improving beyond my own knowledge because there is always something new to learn and new horizons to discover.”

– Jose Andres

“Chefs don’t make mistakes; they make new dishes.”

– Elizabeth Briggs

“You have to be confident in who you are and what you’re doing. Of course, you try to evolve. I would never tell you, ‘Today is the best I will ever be.’ I’m always trying to be a better chef, a better dad, a better person.”

– Guy Fieri

“Best to start at the bottom & gradually climb up. It’s much more fun, too.”

– Gordon Ramsay

“I believe that there is always something new to learn, in fact, that is one of the three reasons that I chose to become a chef, that my education is never over.”

– Anne Burrell

“If you’re cooking and not making mistakes, you’re not playing outside your safety zone. I don’t expect it all to be good. I have fat dogs because I scrap that stuff out the back door.”

– Guy Fieri

“I believe in tradition and innovation, authenticity and passion.”

– Jose Andres

“The best advice I was given was to never stop learning, because the moment you give up and think you know everything, you’re already done as a chef, you should just quit.”

– Niki Nakayama

“I love faltering. I love, in a sense, coming up short. Because you learn nothing from success. You learn so much from failing.”

– Charlie Trotter

“I learned from my grandmother, because we were cooking a lot for the farm. Breakfast, lunch, dinner.”

– Daniel Boulud

“Yes, a business should thrive, but it shouldn’t thrive at the expense of everyone else losing.”

– Roy Choi

“We’re hoping to succeed; we’re okay with failure. We just don’t want to land in between.”

– David Chang

“You learn a lot about someone when you share a meal together.”

– Anthony Bourdain

“40% of what I’ve done was a mistake. I now call it R&D.”

– Jamie Oliver

“Risk is to do something that 99 percent of the time would be a failure.”

– Ferran Adria

“Get up every day and try a little harder than the day before.”

– Emeril Lagasse

“I have no regrets in my life. If not for the mistakes that I made I would not be the man I am today.”

– Marco Pierre White

“You don’t become a chef to become famous.”

– Eric Ripert

“You cannot get an influence from the cuisine of a country if you don’t understand it. You’ve got to study it.”

– Ferran Adria

“People, you have six senses! The last one is common! Use it!”

– Michael Ruhlman

“Close interaction with farmers and scientists can expose the chef to new flavours that can be used to delight diners.”

– Rene Redzepi

“Food is culture. Food is a gateway to democracy and diplomacy, a gateway to communication and friendships.”

– Timon Balloo

“It’s important to have balance in your life between work and play.”

– Bobby Flay

“My parents taught me to take what you learn and make it your own. That’s what being a chef is. It’s important to me to feel I’m being true to the craft, not just true to my roots.”

– Preston Clark

“I’m stubborn and I think I can do anything and be superwoman. But the reality is, I’ve stepped into a more structured balance in my life nowadays, because I never want to feel that again. Tired doesn’t do it justice.”

– Nyesha Arrington

“A balanced diet is a cookie in each hand.”

– Barbara Johnson

“Cooking is all about people. Food is maybe the only universal thing that really has the power to bring everyone together. No matter what culture, everywhere around the world, people eat together.”

– Guy Fieri

“So the pie isn’t perfect? Cut it into wedges. Stay in control, and never panic.”

– Martha Stewart

“Work hard. Laugh when you feel like crying. Keep an open mind, open eyes and an open spirit.”

– Rachael Ray

“You can’t chase everybody on the Internet who’s saying stuff about you, that’s for sure.”

– Bobby Flay

“The secret to my confidence is that I don’t care. I’m really lucky that I [grew up] before the internet existed, so I didn’t find my worth in it. I didn’t find my personality in it. And I didn’t find who I am in it. I found that within my home and my nucleus and my experiences.”

– Sunny Anderson

“It’s crazy. I have no plan for my life. I’m just living my most authentic self.”

– Nyesha Arrington

“If you bring too much into your day, it gets really hairy and you don’t do things well.”

– Cristeta Comerford

“Put yourself out there, the more you put yourself out there, the more successful you’re going to be … Promote yourself as much as possible … Media makes your career now.”

– Amanda Cohen

“We’ve been told numerous times that our cooking is ‘feminine,’ which people always intend as a compliment. We’re happy to be identified with femaleness, as strong and proud women, but the masculine/feminine binary has no legitimate place in culinary expression or its criticism. It’s an artificial construct we’d be happy to see done away with.”

– Sarah Kramer & Sarah Hymanson

“Food is a necessary component to life. People can live without Renoir, Mozart, Gaudi, Beckett, but they cannot live without food.”

– Grant Achatz

“Once you decide on your occupation, you must immerse yourself in your work. You have to fall in love with your work. Never complain about your job. You must dedicate your life to mastering your skill. That’s the secret of success and is the key to being regarded honorably.”

– Jiro Ono

“The right use of food can end hunger.”

– Jose Andres

“When opportunity knocks, you’ve got to open the door and grab it.”

– Cristeta Comerford

“I get up every day, do the best that I can do, and go home and have a good time.”

– Ina Garten

“Today’s innovation is tomorrow’s tradition.”

– Lidia Bastianich

“Because of my culture, I’m uncomfortable with trying to make loud, bold statements. I can do that in the food.”

– Niki Nakayama

“You have to be critical of what you do every day, to analyze it and be willing to push it further.”

– Charlie Trotter

“How we eat can change the world.”

– Alice Waters

“Maybe God has a bigger plan for me than I have for myself.”

– Jamie Oliver

“Find something you love, because if you love what you do, you’ll never spend a day at work.”

– Mario Batali

“What you feel like eating at any given moment is what you should have.”

– Ferran Adria

“If you are not extreme, then people will take shortcuts because they don’t fear you.”

– Marco Pierre White

“You have to be driven. You have to be focused. You have to be aware.”

– Thomas Keller

“If you don’t follow your dream, who will?”

– Emeril Lagasse

“Restaurants are like having children: its fun to make them, maybe, but then you have them for good and bad. You are going to have to raise them and if something goes wrong when they are 30 years old, they will still be your little boy.”

– Wolfgang Puck

“I don’t think young men or women should feel pressured into marriage. You shouldn’t marry anyone, in my opinion, who you have to try hard for.”

– Rachael Ray

“To me, food is as much about the moment, the occasion, the location and the company as it is about the taste.”

– Heston Blumenthal

“Food brings people together on many different levels. It’s nourishment of the soul and body; it’s truly love.”

– Giada De Laurentiis

“Look at cookbooks with your kids and ask them what sounds good.”

– Mario Batali

“It is so nice to talk to someone that has a passion for food and family.”

– Wolfgang Puck

“You know, food is such – it’s a hug for people.”

– Rachael Ray

“To all the chefs, as we do this, let’s remember as we break off into cliques and start doing brown chefs and yellow chefs and gay chefs, let’s remember that we do this because we love doing it.”

– Vishwesh Batt

“Working in a restaurant means being part of a family, albeit usually a slightly dysfunctional one. Nothing is accomplished independently.”

– Joe Bastianich

“People like to think the creative process is romantic. The artist drifts to sleep at night, to be awakened by the subliminal echoes of his or her next brilliant idea. The truth, for me at least, is that creativity is primarily the result of hard work and study.”

– Grant Achatz

“Love is like smiling, it never fades and is contagious.”

– Paula Deen

“Spain is a fascinating mix of people, languages, culture and food, but if there is one thing all Spaniards share, it’s a love of food and drink.”

– Jose Andres

“The art of cooking is among the most intimate things that we can do for another.”

– Charlie Trotter

“I’m probably a bit romantic about it, but I think we humans miss having contact with fire. We need it.”

– Jamie Oliver

“The kitchen really is the castle itself. This is where we spend our happiest moments and where we find the joy of being a family.”

– Mario Batali

“Anything made with love, bam! -it’s a beautiful meal.”

– Emeril Lagasse

“I just want my children to be happy. And to be good people. Proper people. That’s all.”

– Marco Pierre White

“I’ve always said that I think females make the best chefs anywhere in the world.”

– Gordon Ramsay

“You know, nobody can ever cook as good as your mama.”

– Paula Deen

“A great chef is an artist that I truly respect.”

– Robert Stack

“I don’t like food that’s too carefully arranged; it makes me think that the chef is spending too much time arranging and not enough time cooking. If I wanted a picture I’d buy a painting.”

– Andy Rooney

“A jazz musician can improvise based on his knowledge of music. He understands how things go together. For a chef, once you have that basis, that’s when cuisine is truly exciting.”

– Charlie Trotter

“A recipe has no soul. You, as the cook, must bring soul to the recipe.”

– Thomas Keller

“One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.”

– Virginia Woolf

“I want to talk to the bullied kids of the world. Tell them to hang on, it will get better. Know that an ‘Iron Chef,’ actors, musicians, artists and all successful people have probably been bullied in their life. And the best part of your life is yet to come. Whatever it takes to live, do it!”

– Cat Cora

“Kitchens should be designed around what’s truly important-fun, food, and life.”

– Daniel Boulud

“There’s a bond among a kitchen staff, I think. You spend more time with your chef in the kitchen than you do with your own family.”

– Gordon Ramsay

“You don’t have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces – just good food from fresh ingredients.”

– Julia Child

“I always had a fantasy of being a chef, because I like kitchen life.”

– Geoffrey Rush

“Let’s face it: if you and I have the same capabilities, the same energy, the same staff, if the only thing that’s different between you and me is the products we can get, and I can get a better product than you, I’m going to be a better chef.”

– Thomas Keller

“I can’t stand people that do not take food seriously.”

– Oscar Wilde

“I liked the energy of cooking, the action, the camaraderie. I often compare the kitchen to sports and compare the chef to a coach. There are a lot of similarities to it.”

– Todd English

“The best way to learn to cook is to do some serious eating.”

– Alexandra Guarnaschelli

“People who love to eat are always the best people.”

– Julia Child

“Japanese chefs believe our soul goes into our knives once we start using them. You wouldn’t put your soul in a dishwasher!”

– Masaharu Morimoto

“The only real stumbling block is fear of failure. In cooking you’ve got to have a what-the-hell attitude.”

– Julia Child

“I call all chefs cooks. They’re all cooks. That’s what we do, we cook. You’re a chef when you’re running a kitchen.”

– Tom Colicchio

“The only time to eat diet food is while you’re waiting for the steak to cook.”

– Julia Child

“Maybe one of the only things I do well: I cook like a maniac! I would be a chef if I weren’t an actor.”

– Ian Somerhalder

“I think every chef, not just in America, but across the world, has a double-edged sword – two jackets, one that’s driven, a self-confessed perfectionist, thoroughbred, hate incompetence and switch off the stove, take off the jacket and become a family man.”

– Gordon Ramsay

“I train my chefs completely different to anyone else. My young girls and guys, when they come to the kitchen, the first thing they get is a blindfold. They get blindfolded and they get sat down at the chef’s table… Unless they can identify what they’re tasting, they don’t get to cook it.”

– Gordon Ramsay

“I have a chef who makes sure that I’m getting the right amounts of carbs, proteins and fats throughout the day to keep me at my max performance level.”

– Barry Bonds

“One of the greatest pleasures of my life has been that I have never stopped learning about Good Cooking and Good Food”

– Edna Lewis

“I remember when I was in college, I used to watch Julia Child’s cooking show during dinner and joke with my roommates about becoming a TV chef.”

– Martin Yan

“I think the most wonderful thing in the world is another chef. I’m always excited about learning new things about food.”

– Paul Prudhomme

“The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.”

– Calvin Trillin

“In normal life, ‘simplicity’ is synonymous with ‘easy to do,’ but when a chef uses the word, it means ‘takes a lifetime to learn.’”

– Bill Buford

“A good chef has to be a manager, a businessman and a great cook. To marry all three together is sometimes difficult.”

– Wolfgang Puck

“You’re getting to know who the great chefs are through their books.”

– Thomas Keller

“Just like if you were brought up on a farm, you would most likely carry on your father’s business as a farmer; I was brought up in the kitchen and ended up becoming a chef.”

– Martin Yan

“Cooking is for chefs. Science informs us and lets us cook while knowing what we are doing, but it is not a replacement for the skills of a chef.”

– Nathan Myhrvold

“Good food is a right, not a privilege. It brings children into a positive relationship with their health, community and environment.”

– Alice Waters

“I sometimes think the chef end of cooking is not the real end of cooking. Cooking is all about homes and gardens, it doesn’t happen in restaurants”

– Delia Smith

“Gordon Ramsay makes me laugh because he knows that I’m not a chef.”

– Nigella Lawson

“Is it a good hot dog? That’s all I want to know … I don’t think the personal health and purity of my colon is that important compared to pleasure. As a chef, I’m not your dietitian or your ethicist. I’m in the pleasure business …. My responsibility is to give you the most delicious tomato that I can afford, given the circumstances, and maybe increase the likelihood that you get laid after dinner.”

– Anthony Bourdain

“If you want to become a great chef, you have to work with great chefs. And that’s exactly what I did.”

– Gordon Ramsay

“I believe that food is one way to make people happy. I also believe that food can unite people from all walks of life and cultures. When we sit together and eat, we promote better understanding and harmony. Food brings love, peace and compassion to the table.”

– Chef Wan

“News networks giving a greater voice to viewers because the social web is so popular are like a chef on the Titanic who, seeing the looming iceberg and fleeing customers, figures ice is the future and starts making snow cones.”

– Randall Munroe

“Peace begins in the kitchens and pantries, gardens and backyards, where our food is grown and prepared. The energies of nature and the infinite universe are absorbed through the foods we eat and are transmuted into our thoughts and actions.”

– Michio Kushi

“In any restaurant of this caliber, the chefs are in the same position, building relationships.”

– Thomas Keller

“Your pantry is your first line of defense against food-borne illness and things like high blood pressure and cholesterol.”

– Joe Bastianich

“A chef is a mixture maybe of artistry and craft. You have to learn the craft really to get there.”

– Wolfgang Puck

“Chefs don’t do ponytails and we shouldn’t do them because I guarantee that whenever there’s a discovery of hair in the food, it’s guaranteed it’s from the chef’s ponytail.”

– Gordon Ramsay

“I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food.”

– W. C. Fields

“A good apprentice cook must be as polite with the dishwasher as with the chef.”

– Fernand Point

“All of the people who work in the kitchen with me go out into the forests and on to the beach. It’s a part of their job. If you work with me you will often be starting your day in the forest or on the shore because I believe foraging will shape you as a chef.”

– Rene Redzepi

“I was 32 when I started cooking; up until then, I just ate.”

– Julia Child

“First of all, I can’t really claim to be a great chef.”

– Martin Yan

“My grandfather was a chef for a Baron in Sicily before he came to America. I grew up with him. I used to do my homework at one end of the kitchen table while he cooked at the other end.”

– Vincent Schiavelli

“You never forget a beautiful thing that you have made. Even after you eat it, it stays with you – always.”

– Julia Child

“I wanted to learn everything I could about what it takes to be a great chef. It was a turning point for me.”

– Thomas Keller

“Cooking is like painting or writing a song. Just as there are only so many notes or colors, there are only so many flavors – it’s how you combine them that sets you apart.”

– Wolfgang Puck

“When we no longer have good cooking in the world, we will have no literature, nor high and sharp intelligence, nor friendly gatherings, no social harmony.”

– Marie-Antoine Careme

“There really is a camaraderie among chefs and a willingness to help out whenever we can.”

– Rocco DiSpirito

“Being a chef is the best job in the world.”

– Gordon Ramsay

“The internet has become such a great tool not just for chefs but for everyone. The net has given everyone the tools to see and almost experience new and different ideas.”

– Graham Kerr

“It goes back to the early days in the kitchen where you would be tasting dishes all night long, so the last thing I want to do in the morning is eat. Chefs generally tend to be grazers.”

– Gordon Ramsay

“Now everybody thinks that once you do Top Chef, then 13 weeks later you’re a chef. Nobody wants to learn to cook anymore.”

– Wolfgang Puck

“Generally a chef’s book is like a calling card or a portfolio to display their personal work.”

– Sally Schneider

“Chefs, as a whole, say yes to any project, fundraiser, or tasting because they have such a generous spirit.”

– Charlie Trotter

“The restaurant chefs in Spain are breaking ground, but in terms of the everyday cooking in Spain I still hear people coming back and saying they were disappointed. I think it’s because they’re expecting the chef stuff.”

– Sally Schneider

“Cooking is like love. It should be entered into with abandon or not at all.”

– Harriet Van Horne

“A lot of people love the idea of improvising but are terrified of it, so I tried to make a book that was not a chef’s book about improvising but a real home cook’s book with a real home cook’s pantry, supermarket ingredients, that sort of thing.”

– Sally Schneider

“It’s very important to me that people who are actual chefs and other professionals in the culinary world, understand that I’m not, and have never held myself out as being, like a CIA-trained chef.”

– Ted Allen

“A Chef must think like a scientist, organize like an accountant, plate like an artist, and cook like a grandma.”

– Unknown

“Chef, who turns food into happiness.”

– Unknown

“Cooking is one of the great gifts you can give to those you love.”

– Unknown

“Anyone who’s a chef, who loves food, ultimately knows that all that matters is: Is it good? Does it give pleasure?”

– Unknown

“A recipe has no soul, you as the cook must bring soul to the recipe.”

– Unknown

“Cooking is all about people. Food is maybe the only universal thing that really has the power to bring everyone together. No matter what culture, everywhere around the world, people eat together.”

– Unknown

“Eating is a necessity but cooking is an art.”

– Unknown

“Cooking is like painting or writing a song. Just as there are only so many notes or colors. There are only so many flavors- it’s how you combine them that sets you apart.”

– Unknown

“Learn how to cook try new recipes learn from your mistakes, be fearless, and above all have fun.”

– Unknown

“There is no secret ingredient in the recipe for success. Work hard, grab opportunities, and follow your passion.”

– Unknown

“My favorite thing to do at home is cooking.”

– Unknown

“The only real stumbling block is fear. In cooking, you’ve got to have a what-the-hell attitude.”

– Unknown

“I maintain standards and I strive for perfection. That level of pressure is conveyed in a very bullish way and that’s what cooking is all about.”

– Unknown

“Cooking is like love, it should be entered into with complete abandon or not at all.”

– Unknown

“Garlic is divine, few food items can taste so many distinct ways, handled correctly, misuse of garlic is a crime.”

– Unknown

“A recipe is a story that ends with a good meal.”

– Unknown

“Nobody is better with their hands than a chef.”

– Unknown

“Do it with passion or not at all.”

– Unknown

“There is no sincere love other than the love of food.”

– Unknown

“Stressed are desserts spelled backward.”

– Unknown

“Find something you are passionate about and keep tremendously interested in it.”

– Unknown

“Skills can be taught. The character you either have or you don’t have.”

– Unknown

“I hate being sexy but I’m a chef so I can’t help it.”

– Unknown

“Good food is very often, simple food.”

– Unknown

“Food is symbolic of love when words are inadequate.”

– Unknown

“No one is born a great cook, one learns by doing.”

– Unknown

“I think pressure’s healthy, and very few can handle it.”

– Unknown

“Food is memories.”

– Unknown

“Food is really and truly the most effective medicine.”

– Unknown

“One of the very nicest things about life is the way we must regularly stop whatever it is we are doing and devote our attention to eating.”

– Unknown

“Laughter is the brightest where food is best.”

– Unknown

“The journey is the part of the experience- an expression of the seriousness of one’s intent. One doesn’t take the train to Mecca.”

– Unknown

“People who love to eat always the people.”

– Unknown

“Bakers make the world smell better.”

– Unknown

“Never trust a skinny cook.”

– Unknown

“Good cooks never lack friends.”

– Unknown

“Food isn’t my passion, food is my life.”

– Unknown

“Food is the ingredient that binds us together.”

– Unknown

“Don’t be afraid to take whisks.”

– Unknown

“I can’t stand people who do not take food seriously.”

– Unknown

“A recipe is a story that ends with a good meal.”

– Unknown

“An apron is just a cape on backward.”

– Unknown

“Always cook with passion.”

– Unknown

“I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food.”

– Unknown

“Chocolate comes from cocoa, which is a tree that makes it a plant Chocolate is a salad.”

– Unknown

“The measure of achievement is not winning awards. It’s doing something that you appreciate, something you believe is worthwhile.”

– Unknown

“Desert is like a feel-good song and the ones make you dance.”

– Unknown

“Oh, I adore cooking it makes me feel mindless in a worthwhile way.”

– Unknown

“The secret ingredient is butter.”

– Unknown

“Cooking is love made visible.”

– Unknown

“I don’t have to agree with you to like you or respect you.”

– Unknown

“My cooking is fabulous even the smoke alarm is cheering me on.”

– Unknown

“As a chef I’m not your dietitian or your ethicist, I’m in the pleasure business.”

– Unknown

“I realized very early the power of food to evoke memory, to bring people together, so I wanted to be a part of that.”

– Unknown

“You’ll never know everything about anything especially something you love.”

– Unknown

“Invest in what’s really clean as you go make it fun. It doesn’t have to be complicated.”

– Unknown

“I don’t like looking back. I’m always constantly looking forward. I’m not the one to sort to sit and cry over split milk. I’m too busy looking for the next cow.”

– Unknown

“If you’re twenty-two, physically fit, hungry to learn and be better, I urge you to travel- as far and as widely as possible. Sleep on floors if you have to. Find out how other people live and eat and cook. Learn from them- wherever you go.”

– Unknown

“It’s fun to get together and have something good to eat at least once a day. That’s what human life is all about, enjoying things.”

– Unknown

“If you are afraid of butter use cream.”

– Unknown

“Skills can be taught. The character you either have or you don’t have.”

– Unknown

“Just give me coffee and watch me make it happen.”

– Unknown

“A recipe has no soul you as the cook must bring soul to the recipe.”

– Unknown

“I only drink champagne on two occasions, when I am in love and when I am not.”

– Unknown

“I like a cook who smiles out loud when he tastes his own work.”

– Unknown

“I love having my teeth kicked in by a different perspective.”

– Unknown

“I’m a whisk-taker.”

– Unknown

“Don’t lie about it. You made a mistake. Admit it and move on. Just don’t do it again. Ever.”

– Unknown

“When you acknowledge, as you must, that there is no such thing as perfect food, only the idea of it, then the real purpose of striving toward perfection becomes clear: to make people happy.”

– Unknown

“Keep calm and cook on.”

– Unknown

“I cook with wine. Sometimes I even add it to the food.”

– Unknown

“If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.”

– Unknown

“Food is not rational. Food is culture, habit, craving, and identity.”

– Unknown

“Toss your hair in a bun, drink some coffee, put on some gangsta rap, and handle it.”

– Unknown

“I love sleep because it’s like a time machine for breakfast.”

– Unknown

“The most powerful social medicine is not the internet, it is not. Facebook- it is food. This connects all human beings.”

– Unknown

“Chefs don’t make mistakes; they invent new dishes.”

– Unknown

“You only live at once, lick the bowl.”

– Unknown

“It’s okay to play with your food.”

– Unknown

“I believe it’s a cook’s moral obligation to add more butter given the chance.”

– Unknown

“I always say that I don’t believe I’m a chef. I try to be a storyteller.”

– Unknown

“The way you make an omelet reveals your character.”

– Unknown

“The key to running a successful kitchen is what I call the ‘3 F’s.’ Be Firm, Be Fair, and Be Friendly with your staff, your guests, and yourself.”

– Unknown

“Chef’ doesn’t mean that you’re the cook, it simply means ‘boss.”

– Unknown

“Cook more often. Don’t study; just cook.”

– Unknown

“We’re hoping to succeed; we’re okay with failure. We just don’t want to land in between.”

– Unknown

“We go through our careers and things happen to us. Those experiences made me what I am.”

– Unknown

“My philosophy from day one is that I can sleep better at night if I can improve an individual’s knowledge about food and wine, and do it on a daily basis.”

– Unknown

“Keep cake moist by eating it all in one sitting.”

– Unknown

“Cooking is an expression of who we are.”

– Unknown

“We are a team, watch us build an empire together.”

– Unknown

“Calories? I think you mean delicious points.”

– Unknown

“Happy as long as I’m not hungry.”

– Unknown

“Life is too short to fake butter, cheese, or people.”

– Unknown

“Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you who you are.”

– Unknown

“Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit; Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.”

– Unknown

“They told me I couldn’t. That’s why I did.”

– Unknown

“Those who stir the shitpot should have licked the spoon.”

– Unknown

“If you want breakfast in the bed sleep in the kitchen.”

– Unknown

“If you really want to make a friend, go to someone’s house and eat with him, the people who give you their food give you their heart.”

– Unknown

“Kitchens are hard environments and they form incredibly strong characters.”

– Unknown

“Social media notifications are good, payment notifications are great.”

– Unknown

“I wish a girl knows her limit, a smart girl knows she has none.”

– Unknown

“Throw me to the wolves and I’ll come back leading the pack.”

– Unknown

“I’m building a brand, I’m always busy.”

– Unknown

“Travel is all about the gorgeous feeling of teetering in the unknown.”

– Unknown

“My life makes Monday look sexy.”

– Unknown

“Pull the chair. Take a taste. Come join us. Life is so endlessly delicious.”

– Unknown

“I cook as well as I look.”

– Unknown

“If you’re a cheap tipper or rude to your server, you are dead to me. You are lower than whole whale faces.”

– Unknown

“Self-doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will.”

– Unknown

“Don’t look back you are not going that way.”

– Unknown

“I’m the type of girl who will always remind you to dream bigger.”

– Unknown

“Anyone can cook but only the fearless can be great.”

– Unknown

“Every day is a new opportunity.”

– Unknown

“Not one drop of my self-worth depends on your acceptance of me.”

– Unknown

“Someone once told me not to bite off more than I could chew. I said I’d rather choke on greatness than nibble on mediocrity.”

– Unknown

“Let them talk, while you do.”

– Unknown

“People stare at me as they have never seen a walking goddess.”

– Unknown

“Ask for help and they’ll laugh, do it yourself and they’ll hate.”

– Unknown

“There is no competition because nobody can be me.”

– Unknown

“I don’t trust words, I trust actions.”

– Unknown

“Prove yourself to yourself, not others.”

– Unknown

“He thinks I’m cute now, wait until he finds out I triple his income.”

– Unknown

“The only real stumbling block is fear of failure in cooking, you’ve to have a what-the-hell attitude.”

– Unknown

“You are god’s masterpiece.”

– Unknown

“She who kneels before God can stand before anyone.”

– Unknown

“When you go through deep waters god is always with you.”

– Unknown

“Dear haters, I have so much more for you to be mad at.”

– Unknown

“To me, food is as much about the moment, the occasion, the location, and the company as it is about the taste.”

– Unknown

“Replacing “Why is this happening to me” with “what is this trying to teach me” has seriously been a game-changer.”

– Unknown

“Today we celebrate the decision you ever made.”

– Unknown

“Your life would be so different if you just chose confidence.”

– Unknown

“Be classy but also be a badass.”

– Unknown

“Just a girl boss building her empire.”

– Unknown

“Life is a combination of magic and pasta.”

– Unknown

“I need to make myself do things instead of putting them off and then I can just forget about them.”

– Unknown

“Eating is a necessity but cooking is an art.”

– Unknown

“When the why is clear the how is easy.”

– Unknown

“He who handles the knife is always right in the kitchen.”

– Unknown

“Confidence is silent, insecurities are loud.”

– Unknown

“Never above you, never below you, always beside you.”

– Unknown

“Food is our common ground, a universal experience.”

– Unknown

“Her attitude is savage, but her heart is gold.”

– Unknown

“It is not your job to be everything to everyone.”

– Unknown

“Don’t base your decisions on the advice of those who don’t have to bear the consequences.”

– Unknown

“Remain humble, but still, let these bitches know.”

– Unknown

“We don’t accept negative vibes here move along.”

– Unknown

“Every boss once started as a worker.”

– Unknown

“Your body is not a temple, it’s an amusement park, enjoy the ride.”

– Unknown

“God, goals, grind.”

– Unknown

“Be bold enough to design your life.”

– Unknown

“One cannot think well, love well, sleep well if one has not dined well.”

– Unknown

“Losing a friend is more painful than losing a romantic relationship.”

– Unknown

“Goals are like magnets. They’ll attract the things that make them come true.”

– Unknown

“There is no force more powerful than a woman determined to rise.”

– Unknown

“Old ways won’t open new doors.”

– Unknown

“I deserve the world so I’m gonna give it to myself.”

– Unknown

“It takes a strong woman to remain single in a world that is accustomed to settling for anything just to say they have someone.”

– Unknown

“I hate when I go to the kitchen looking for food and all I find are ingredients.”

– Unknown

“Great food is like great sex. The more you have the more you want.”

– Unknown

“Cupcakes are muffins that believed in miracles.”

– Unknown

“Pretty wild how we used to cake after someone had blown it on, good times.”

– Unknown

“Some people just need a high-five.”

– Unknown

“Love is like a fart. If you have to force it, it’s probably shit.”

– Unknown

“Feed your brain or stay the same.”

– Unknown

“I woke up this morning and realized I don’t have what it takes to sit back and be average.”

– Unknown

“Let me adjust my crown and get my day started.”

– Unknown

“If you focus on what you have left behind, you will never be able to see what lies ahead.”

– Unknown

“Don’t go with the flow, be the flow.”

– Unknown

“Pull up a chair, take a taste come join us. Life is so endlessly delicious.”

– Unknown

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