Quotes About Culinary

I can cook really well. I started cooking as a kid, so I can fend for myself in the kitchen and even do a little gourmet action.

You know, my parents had a restaurant. And I left home, actually, in 1949, when I was 13 years old, to go into apprenticeship. And actually when I left home, home was a restaurant - like I said, my mother was a chef. So I can't remember any time in my life, from age 5, 6, that I wasn't in a kitchen.

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.

I lived my whole life in the kitchen. Not only that, but it's the passion, it's the love for cooking and food. It's dictated my entire life - every aspect of it.

I'm a complete foodie, but I'm a terrible cook. If a guy can get me in the kitchen and we actually have fun cooking, that's amazing.

I think the kitchen is the new garage. And I think for a guy that wants to go out and be an evolved person, he should know about his local favorite restaurant. He should know how to cook something.

Even in the busiest kitchen, there's always a point at the end of the day when you go home.

I love the intensity of the fine-dining kitchen, but loathe the fine-dining experience.

I liked to screw around in the kitchen when I was a kid. But I started cooking when I was 15.

I have to do so many scenes cooking that I wanted to learn how to chop like I know what I'm doing and do certain things around the kitchen that look right.

I'm a very improvisational cook. I sort of like to make things up as I go along. I'm quite creative in the kitchen.

I'm a chef, I own restaurants, and there's a behavior in the kitchen you have to have.

Everybody in my family cooks, so growing up and being around it... if I was going to spend time with everybody, it was helping them in the kitchen.

I always end up in the kitchen at restaurants. At events or parties, too, I like to see where my food is prepared or made. I like the theater of it.

The kitchen is definitely the room that gets used the most in my house.

I worked in a bunch of really tough kitchens, but when I got yelled at and screamed at, it wasn't really for being a woman. It was just for making a bonehead mistake.

People still think I led a rock and roll lifestyle. I was in my kitchen 100 hours a week; I didn't have time to do that.

I cook as much as I eat, and I like the aroma that comes out of a kitchen.

I'm a keen experimenter in the kitchen. With food, not with anything else!

My mother was creative in the kitchen.

I quite like cooking, but not to the extent that I look on a kitchen as a domain.

I have made cassoulet more times than is advisable - first in culinary school, once with a friend for a dinner party, and at least half a dozen times in the BA Test Kitchen.

I'm a beast in the kitchen.

I love to cook, man, I'm the short-order cook of the house. It's also my creativity. The kitchen is my space. I'm always cooking, I'm always making something.