Quotes About Chef

I am a futurist, projecting trends in science into the next decades and century, but ironically my two daughters - one is a neuroscientist and the other is a pastry chef - tell me that my taste in music is positively prehistoric.

I know from personal experience, if a chef yelled at me in a kitchen, the first thing I'd want to do is hit them with a pot.

I'm a decent cook. I'm an outstanding eater.

As a chef my sense of taste and smell are extremely important. But of all the senses, sight is the one I'd fear losing most.

The most followed chef is Delia Smith. She is my age and doesn't try to be entertaining, she encourages people to learn the basics.

I love food shows: Anthony Bourdain, Iron Chef, Chopped, you name it.

Before acting, I wanted to become a journalist. I also toyed with the idea of being a chef - but that's only when people asked me what I wanted to be. In fact, I always used to say I wanted to be an actor, but I didn't ever believe that I was good enough to be come one.

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

The president of the United States can't even fire his chef. I'm not kidding.

Before I had my own restaurant, I was never top dog in the kitchen. I've always had a low opinion of myself as a cook.

I grew up a block away from Hell, and my pop-pop was a chef in Hell's Kitchen.

Both my parents are wonderful cooks - my father looks like he has been in the kitchen his whole life.

I had to have a large kitchen because I look to cook.

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 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.

One really interesting thing for me was learning about kitchen etiquette, and the differences between an Indian kitchen and a French one. They're different in atmosphere, and also in how chefs maneuver within them.

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

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

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

House of Blues has soul right down to the chef 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.

I know how to cook, so working in the kitchen will never be an issue.