Quotes About Culinary

I don't like eating in restaurants.

All my life, I've had restaurants that were affordable.

I love trying new restaurants.

I try to eat in one of my restaurants every day, and I eat out in another restaurant every day. It's what I do.

I played the guitar and thought that was what I was going to do as a career. I still record music that is played in my restaurants.

I go to Michelin-starred restaurants as part of my job, but that's not how I want to eat all the time.

I always wanted to have my own restaurants even when I was acting.

I like to try different restaurants in every city.

No one eats at restaurants as much as I do.

What I love about London is you can go out of your door and turn left or right, and you could eat at every restaurant and still never go round in a loop.

I'm anti-cheese in a salad.

I made the first sandwich before entering college.

By and large, we're a bread-eating culture. People like sandwiches. We don't really over-think that one.

No one makes better scrambled eggs than me.

The first meal that I learned to make was scrambled eggs.

My father was a chef but hadn't owned his own business. I didn't like that. In my heart of hearts, I knew I wanted to be in business.

My parents owned a soul food diner. It inspired me to go to culinary school.

It's tough, you know: I'm a chef first, and a restaurant owner, way before I was ever on Food Network, and it's a tough business.

As people of color, it took a whole generation in many ways to get us out of the kitchen, and it's gonna take us the same whole generation to get us back into the kitchen and have ownership of restaurants, hotels and stuff like that.

I've always had a dream of owning a restaurant.

My cousin owns restaurants, and I used to work in his restaurants with his chef. I've always liked food, and I've always been interested in cooking and stuff like that.

I met Charlie Trotter before I actually saw him in person; I was 24 when I first opened the pages of Charlie's cookbook 'Charlie Trotter's' and was greeted by a man I would know and admire for the next 20 years.

I thought I'd be a chef by night and paint by day. Now I just have fabulous dinner parties.

If not a chef, I would have been a painter maybe. I have interest in painting, and I do it well.