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- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Morning
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- Nov 07, 2020
Way back when I was a junior pastry chef, I'd bake loads of muffins every morning, as many as 120 or so, while operating on autopilot.
- Nov 07, 2020
One thing I always say is being a great chef today is not enough - you have to be a great businessman.
- End
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Business Side
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't have any interest in being a chef without being on the business side of things, or vice versa, because if you don't make money at the end of the month, you're going out of business.
- Energy
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I swear, I didn't really go in thinking, 'I'll be the Simon Cowell' of 'Top Chef.' I was just used to being a judge on British food shows where people are much more outspoken and rather rude. That's the culture over here.
- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's very different doing a food show in America and doing one in Britain. I did a 20-part series for the BBC series called 'Eating With the Enemy.' The budget for all 20 episodes was probably the budget for a single episode of 'Top Chef.' It's the difference between making a home movie in your backyard and going to Hollywood.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Top Chef' is a very smooth-running machine. All the people working there are incredibly professional and absolutely at the top of their game.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wanted to learn everything I could about what it takes to be a great chef. It was a turning point for me.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Clicks
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I look at someone's face, there's something in my brain that just clicks - that breaks down their face into the elements that go into a caricature. It might be like the way a chef tastes a dish and can break down into elements what went into it.
- Eating
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Crammed
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can't really class all reality shows together. For instance, 'Top Chef' is about talent and competition. 'Big Brother' is more like what happens when you get all those narcissistic personalities crammed in together... and there are limits to that.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most people will pay tribute to Anthony Bourdain as a chef, as the author of 'Kitchen Confidential,' and as the host of several food and travel shows - most recently, 'Parts Unknown' on CNN.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
As his celebrity grew in stature, as he transformed from line cook to chef at Les Halles and further high-grade Manhattan restaurants to charismatic television star, I kept hoping - foolishly, perhaps - that Bourdain might return to his first writing love, to the books he wrote and published when his audience was smaller but still devoted.
- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up in San Diego with immigrant parents, before the food blogs, before this kind of celebrity chef culture we know now.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Calling Card
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- Nov 07, 2020
Generally a chef's book is like a calling card or a portfolio to display their personal work.
- Hear People
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Cooking
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- Nov 07, 2020
We in the media have been guilty about not doing a better job of making people understand how really simple cooking is. We've made everyone feel like they have to be a chef.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm in a place where I feel comfortable not being a chef anymore. That's taboo in our industry. 'Chef' is supposed to be the ultimate end of the road.
- Used
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- Nov 07, 2020
I used to be a chef.
- Movie
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- Nov 07, 2020
Oh yeah, the 'Chef' movie was awesome.
- Cake
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Kitchen
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- Nov 07, 2020
Over the years, quite a few TV producers proposed that I do a program, but I refused. I didn't want to work on a set that looked like a theater; I wanted a kitchen of the sort every chef dreams about.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't consider myself a rock star chef, I really don't. I cook for a living and I try to help out as many people as I can in my life and that's all I care about. I don't care about the fame of television, I use to a lot.
- Kidding
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- Nov 07, 2020
The president of the United States can't even fire his chef. I'm not kidding.
- Learning
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- Nov 07, 2020
Learning about issues such as sustainability and locavorism are things that you need to have as part of you as a chef because it will make you cook more delicious food.
- Farmers
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- Nov 07, 2020
Close interaction with farmers and scientists can expose the chef to new flavours that can be used to delight diners.
- Painting
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- Nov 07, 2020
If not a chef, I would have been a painter maybe. I have interest in painting, and I do it well.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
Men are more mechanical when we cook. Women are more attached. They cook it with feelings. From personal experience. The feeling a female chef puts in the food places her way ahead of men chefs.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Essentially, for me, the whole point of being a chef is to have your own restaurant.
- Fueled
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you're a happy person around food, you can be a professional chef. It's fueled by passion.
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am not very convinced with having a signature dish. The whole point of being a chef is going to a new place, adapting and curating a new menu as per the culture and community.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was growing up, Chef Charlie Trotter inspired me a lot.
- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020
My husband cooks fancier food for himself than I've ever cooked on-air. I call him from the road, and he's making champagne-vanilla salmon or black-cherry pork chop. Half of me is feeling unworthy. Not only am I not a chef, I'm not a better cook than my own husband!
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not a chef. I haven't created any new technique in the kitchen. I'm not a rocket scientist. I think I'm good at writing accessible, fun, and affordable meals for the average American family. That's what I think I'm good at.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
People say I'm a celebrity chef, and I am on telly a lot but that's because I judge contests. Perhaps I'm more of a celebrity eater than a cook.
- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020
Mostly I enjoy the restaurants (my husband is a chef), though I wish we had a wider diversity of ethnic food.
- Learning
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think the most wonderful thing in the world is another chef. I'm always excited about learning new things about food.
- Were
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I weren't a matchmaker, I'd be a chef.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was once in a long relationship with a man who ran a vintage clothes store but had been a chef, so I'd come home each night to a different three-course meal. I was quite fat, but so happy.
- Camouflage
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been a model for 15 years, and I've been on 'Top Chef' for eight seasons, and before that I had other cooking shows, so I've learned a thing or two about how to camouflage certain areas and how to draw the eye to a preferable area of the body.
- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020
Part of my job as a food writer is to describe food. So my work on 'Top Chef,' I feel, is an extension of that. When we give a criticism to the contestant, we want to make sure we tell them why it's not working and why it would work if they did it a different way.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have great empathy for all the contestants that come on 'Top Chef,' whether they go home right away or they make it to the finish line. It's a very vulnerable position they put themselves in and I feel for them.
- Gain
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- Nov 07, 2020
During the course of filming 'Top Chef,' I gain 15 lbs., so I'm used to needing two dress sizes.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
You know how kids dream of being soccer players or actors? Well, my dream was to be a sushi chef.
- Popularity
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I want popularity, I go to a chef's convention.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love 'Top Chef.'
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The exposure from 'Iron Chef' has been helpful, but at the end of the day your product and your service determine whether you get customers or not. If people decide to eat out less during a recession, the first restaurants that they will cut out are the ones that don't do a great job.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
In 'Ratatouille,' there are two different themes that express the two sides of Remy's personality: the creative side: the chef, and the 'thief' side: his nature as a mouse.
- Car
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't have a nanny. I have a chef, and I have my assistant, and that's it. I do it myself. You know, those hours with your child are really important ones, even if it's just the two of you, being quiet in the car together.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of people call me a celebrity chef, but I don't think that I'm a celebrity. So I want to stay keeping just a chef. That's more comfortable.
- Hometown
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Farmer
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Cooking Show
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Hospital
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- Nov 07, 2020
First need in the reform of hospital management? That's easy! The death of all dietitians, and the resurrection of a French chef.
- True
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's true that writing and pastry-making are similar, but when you work as a pastry chef, you can get a kind of mania that everything you see is related to pastries.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm an American chef. I'm American. I live here. I love being here. But, of course, it is different. A black man's journey is different.
- Garments
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- Nov 07, 2020
One day, a chef moaned that he was too hot, so I took a carving knife in one hand, held his jacket with the other, and slashed it. Then I slashed his trousers. Both garments were still on his body at the time.
- Childhood
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- Nov 07, 2020
A chef's palate is born out of his childhood, and one thing all chefs have in common is a mother who can cook.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
In an Indian kitchen, the focus is on getting the job or dish done right in whatever way possible; however, in a French kitchen there's a clear hierarchy, and a chef has to know where their skills are and not go beyond them.
- Nov 07, 2020
You are in school, and you hear about 'Iron Chef' and think, 'One day, I have to be on 'Iron Chef.'
- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- End
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I didn't ever model? I would be back in Kansas. I would probably end up being a pastry chef. My grandma taught me how to make a pie.
- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think I'm going to give my baby her first food on Thanksgiving, make her some organic sweet potato. I'm very excited! It's going to be a big day and my husband is in charge of the turkey - he's the chef of the family!
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you make a record, I always imagine people dancing to it. If the chef thinks it tastes good, then there will be someone who ultimately believes the same thing.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do have a chef, but I still go out. Sometimes I can still blend in, and sometimes I get a little bombarded. It's the best of both worlds.
- Depending
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- Nov 07, 2020
I went to New York to train as a chef, and I had the good or bad fortune, depending on how you describe it, of being right there during 9/11. It was one of the best and the worst experiences.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
Steve Zahn and I like to go to dinner, and we love to go to Chef Donald Link's Herb Saint.
- Dinner
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- Nov 07, 2020
I thought I'd be a chef by night and paint by day. Now I just have fabulous dinner parties.
- Cocktail
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- Nov 07, 2020
A cocktail can be made by the bartender. But the cocktail also can be made by the chef.
- Failure
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whenever a chef cooks for his own ego rather than his guests, he/she set themselves up for ridicule and failure. In the end, it's the service industry. Our goal is to make our guests happy through our cooking.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020