Quotes About Culinary

It took me years to eat a lot of shellfish. I was probably 20 years old before I had even seen a shrimp cocktail. I like oysters, but fried.

A sharp knife is the best tool you can have in the kitchen.

I would say, probably 7 or 8 years into my cooking career, it stopped being about just food for me. Food's really fun, but I've always been about people, and I realized that food is just a really convenient tool for me to connect people and bring them together.

As a restaurateur, my palate is one of my most important tools.

As chefs, we work with organizations like Oxfam to enrich their projects with culinary tools, recipes and ideas.

Since my kitchen is the most important part of my home, I want to be creative and innovative, not only in its aesthetic, but also in the tools that I'm using to cook.

We can use all the scientific tools, but it will never replace the palate or the talent of the chefs who are in the kitchen.

Modern cookbooks are marketing tools for chefs. They're in the bestseller lists but no one cooks from them.

I love my fish spatula so much. I don't have many specialty tools, but that's a favorite of mine.

My mom had Julia Child and 'The Fannie Farmer Cookbook' on top of the refrigerator, and she had a small repertoire of French dishes.

I don't think the rating system places too much pressure on chefs. I prefer to put the pressure on my chefs to perform to the top standards.

The shape of the meat and the taste of it starting from the top down is a part of me. All of my feelings are coming from inside of the meat down to when I put the salt onto the meat.

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

I became friends with a lot of chefs. I was a judge on 'Top Chef' last year. It was a dream come true.

My chefs don't apply for 'Top Chef'. They all know that there is no way. At the end of the process I look at the resumes of the last 25 options just to make sure they've never worked for me before.

I'm obsessed with 'Top Chef'.

Shows like 'Top Chef,' 'Hell's Kitchen' have helped bring attention to the culinary world on a whole, but you have to be cautious it doesn't get out of hand.

I am so proud of 'Top Chef' - I think it's got great cred.

When you have a chef that wants to be in the spotlight, maybe after one or two appearances on a show, they think they're at a certain level that they haven't reached yet in the kitchen. Shows like 'Top Chef', 'Hell's Kitchen' have helped bring attention to the culinary world.

I love 'Top Chef.'

I think that people are more eager to learn about food than almost every other topic.

I love fantasizing about what my next meal is going to be; it's probably my favorite topic of conversation.

At home I've got 1,500 cook books and the spines have all gone, the pages are all torn - it's chaos.

My tortured life - with its extremes and conflicts - might have been difficult for me to deal with, but the press couldn't get enough of it. I was in the papers every day, 'the enfant terrible of the culinary world.'