Chef Quotes - Page 12

• [Eva Braun] would also refer to [Adolf Hitler] as "the boss" (der Chef), but she never called him "Adolf" or "Adi" to anyone after the very early days. It was always der Führer.

  Gretl Braun

  Boss

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• I actually studied cooking and, like, was thinking about becoming a chef.

  Kehinde Wiley

  Thinking, Cooking, Becoming

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• Just so [becoming a chef ] that I could support my art habit. You know? I mean, this is - this is something where you've been literally given an opportunity to put the world on pause for a second.

  Kehinde Wiley

  Art, Mean, Opportunity

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• If you go to chefs all across America and ask them, 'What's your biggest problem right now?,' It is finding people to cook in their restaurants. They're having an enormous, countrywide problem here staffing their operations.

  Anthony Bourdain

  America, People, Problem

  "A 'Brutally Honest' Taste Of Anthony Bourdain's Hunger Tour At Foxwoods". Interview with Leeanne Griffin, www.courant.com. September 26, 2016.

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• We now have a generation of people who in many cases feel that if they become chefs, they'll get a TV show. They have a signature haircut, a year into the business, or a branding arrangement with a shoe company. I don't really relate to that. I guess this is the world we live in now.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Years, Tv Shows, Shoes

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• In a dream world, I would love to be a master pastry chef, because it combines something I love doing baking with something I'm not good at doing baking. BUT! Practically, if I weren't writing and doing comedy things, I'd like to teach kids to read. I would be good at that in real life.

  Josh Gondelman

  Dream, Real, Writing

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• The French are not rude. They just happen to hate you. But that is no reason to bypass this beautiful country, whose master chefs have a well-deserved worldwide reputation for trying to trick people into eating snails. Nobody is sure how this got started. Probably a couple of French master chefs were standing around one day, and they found a snail, and one of them said: 'I bet that if we called this something like `escargot,' tourists would eat it.' Then they had hearty laugh, because 'escargot' is the French word for 'fat crawling bag of phlegm.'

  Dave Barry

  Beautiful, Country, Couple

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry's Only Travel Guide You'll Ever Need”, p.127, Ballantine Books

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• I know how lucky I am. I never take it for granted. In this country [USA], anything can happen - anybody can be what they want to be. All I ever wanted was to be a good husband and father, a good chef, and to have my own restaurant. And the celebrity was never expected. Wouldn't have even dared dream of it. And here I am. So anyone's dreams can come true. And I'm very, very grateful for everything that's come my way. I thank everyone who enjoys what I do.

  Guy Fieri

  Dream, Country, Husband

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• I travel 250 days a year. There are chef friends who I only see every couple of years. By conventional standards I'm a bad friend. I'm not there to remember your birthday or to offer you words of support through Twitter. I'm not up on what you're doing in New York because I'm not in New York. I'm not what people call in parenting circles "present."

  Anthony Bourdain

  New York, Couple, Bad Friend

  Interview with Andrew Friedman, toqueland.com. May 2, 2014.

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• My father cried when I said I wanted to be a chef.

  Michael Symon

  Father, Said, Wanted

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• I still cook at home. A lot of chefs I think don't cook at home. But I still do, I love cooking at home, I love having friends.

  Rene Redzepi

  Home, Thinking, Cooking

  "Rene Redzepi: In His Own Words". ABC News Interview, abcnews.go.com. June 17, 2010.

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• When you make the film, it's like a chef who works on the meal. After you're working all day in the kitchen and dicing and cutting and putting the sauces on, you don't want to eat it. That's how I always feel about the films. I work on it for a year. I've written it, I've worked with the actors, I've edited, put the music in. I just never want to see it again.

  Woody Allen

  Cutting, Years, Kitchen

  "Woody Allen Interview To Rome With Love". Press conference with Woody Allen, www.moviesonline.ca. June, 2012.

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• Having been a chef for some many years, I understand what it's like to work really, really hard to get good at something, only to have someone piss all over it.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Years, Over It, Hard

  "Interview: Anthony Bourdain Is Ready To 'Get Jiro' With His New Food Focused Graphic Novel". Interview with Alex Zalben, www.mtv.com. June 26, 2012.

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• I think it's a universal truth that most chefs I know are happiest eating simple, unadorned good things.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Simple, Thinking, Eating

  "Interview: Anthony Bourdain Is Ready To 'Get Jiro' With His New Food Focused Graphic Novel". Interview with Alex Zalben, www.mtv.com. June 26, 2012.

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• I've always said that I think females make the best chefs anywhere in the world.

  Gordon Ramsay

  Thinking, Female, World

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• I think working with actors is a little bit how a chef would work with a potato or a piece of meat. You have to kind of have a look at the potato or the piece of meat and see what kind of possibilities are in the ingredient. I know I'm using the wrong metaphor. I think my job is to see what potato is there and from there, just work under their conditions.

  Lars von Trier

  Jobs, Thinking, Meat

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• The scotch egg is such a Scottish food. It's as though a great Scottish chef said: I need a tasty snack. Let's take an egg... and wrap it in meat!! Makes it a bit harder.

  Bill Bailey

  Funny, Humor, Scotch

  "Never Mind the Buzzcocks". Comedy, Game-Show, Music, 1996 - 2015.

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• We [chefs] are competitive, although I think you need to be careful with competitiveness as it can become quite negative.

  Paul Rankin

  Thinking, Negative, Needs

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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• Cooking was taken with such seriousness in France that even ordinary chefs were proud of their profession. That's what appealed to me.

  Julia Child

  Taken, Cooking, Ordinary

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I came to understand that the words executive and corporate never belong next to the word chef.

  Thomas Keller

  Next, Executives, Corporate

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• From the sexual, or amatorial, generation of plants new varieties, or improvements, are frequently obtained; as many of the young plants from seeds are dissimilar to the parent, and some of them superior to the parent in the qualities we wish to possess... Sexual reproduction is the chef d'oeuvre, the master-piece of nature.

  Erasmus Darwin

  Science, Parent, Quality

  Erasmus Darwin (1968). “The essential writings of Erasmus Darwin”

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• I think the future for young chefs is much brighter than it was 40 years ago. Because people have become so much more interested in food. That will not stop. We cannot go back now. We cannot go back to frozen.

  Andre Soltner

  Thinking, Years, People

  "In Conversation: André Soltner and David Chang". Interview with Robin Raisfeld, Rob Patronite, nymag.com. September 28, 2008.

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• Chefs aren't celebrities: they're chefs.

  Elton John

  Evening Standard, May 1, 2012.

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• My job the same as carpenter. What kind of house you want to build? What kind of food you want to make? You think your ingredients, your structure. Simple. [Other] Japanese restaurants … mix in some other style of food and call it influence, right? I don't like that. … In Japanese sushi restaurants, a lot of sushi chefs talk too much. 'This fish from there,' 'This very expensive.' Same thing, start singing. And a lot have that fish case in front of them, cannot see what chef do. I'm not going to hide anything, right?

  Masa Takayama

  Jobs, Simple, Thinking

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• Chefs have only been able to work in restaurants, high-end cuisine. Why? Why haven't they been able to find other scenarios? For those chefs who want to do avant-garde cuisine, should they be finding their income in a restaurant? These are the kind of questions we are asking ourselves. So the new scenario will allow them to do whatever they want to do, whenever they want to do it.

  Ferran Adria

  Asking, Want, Able

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