- Nov 07, 2020
Chef Quotes
Most Famous Chef Quotes of All Time!
These Cooking quotes trace real kitchens, like working as a sous chef among Hollywood's biggest names or baking dozens of muffins each morning on autopilot as a junior pastry chef.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- 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
A savory chef must first master his knife skills and understand the basics of sauces and soups, etc., before he/she may move on to become a great chef. It is no different for pastry chefs. If you do not have a strong foundation and are a master of the basics, then you will never be that strong - you will never be a master of the trade - period.
- Judge
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- Nov 07, 2020
I became friends with a lot of chefs. I was a judge on 'Top Chef' last year. It was a dream come true.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have a Madonna portrait done in the style of a Russian icon. My mother, the chef Lidia Bastianich, and I bought it together. It reminds me of her.
- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am not a food critic. Or a chef. Or even a professional writer. What I am schooled in the art of, however, is enjoying myself.
- Gossip Girl
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love 'Gossip Girl.' I used to hang out with Blake Lively and Jessica Szohr. I'm also addicted to Bravo and reality shows like 'Top Chef.'
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My grandmother was a chef, and she taught me to cook. One day I want a restaurant, a small Italian grill. That's my aspiration.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was a hostess, a waitress, a cafe manager, and a prep chef. For one job, I had to wear a hat shaped like a head of garlic.
- Way
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- Nov 07, 2020
You have no choice as a professional chef: you have to repeat, repeat, repeat, repeat until it becomes part of yourself. I certainly don't cook the same way I did 40 years ago, but the technique remains. And that's what the student needs to learn: the technique.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother likes what I cook, but doesn't think it's French. My wife is Puerto Rican and Cuban, so I eat rice and beans. We have a place in Mexico, but people think I'm the quintessential French chef.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
The idea of old was to conform yourself to a style of cooking, it was not to create a style of cooking. Now the chef is so much into 'I want to sign that dish and say I am the one who made that dish.'
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
I tell a student that the most important class you can take is technique. A great chef is first a great technician. 'If you are a jeweler, or a surgeon or a cook, you have to know the trade in your hand. You have to learn the process. You learn it through endless repetition until it belongs to you.
Family runs deep too, with one chef recalling a grandfather who cooked for a Baron in Sicily. Great Culinary skill, others add, still needs sharp business instincts to last.