Chef Quotes - Page 20

• Today there are very few chefs at that high level who are behind their stoves. You don't feel their presence within the room. Where's the romance? Where's the show? Where's the theater? The modern day restaurant - it's like dining in a chapel. It's boring.

  Marco Pierre White

  Romance, Dining, Levels

  Source: tart.org

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• How many chefs when I was a young boy shouted at me during service? All I ever said was "Yes, chef." The customer is the most important. If the chef overreacts, fine. At the end of service, you apologize.

  Marco Pierre White

  Boys, Important, Apologizing

  Source: tart.org

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• Gastronomy is the French Foreign Legion. You don't need any qualifications. Just walk through the door and keep your head down. Be respectful - "Yes chef!" - and you'll be given a trade. One day you'll be in a position where you can put a roof over your children's heads, you can put food on their table, create security for them.

  Marco Pierre White

  Children, Doors, Over You

  Source: tart.org

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• I came from the old world of gastronomy. Many years ago I walked into the kitchens of the Hotel St George and I feel very fortunate that I worked for chefs that were behind their stoves. I saw that world of gastronomy. I can sit here today and say that I saw the golden age of gastronomy. It's gone, it's gone. It's never going to have that anymore, once the accountants get involved the romance fades. That's the reality.

  Marco Pierre White

  Reality, Years, Romance

  Source: www.notquitenigella.com

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• I've never tried to be a celebrity chef, people call me that but I was that young boy that the media chose.

  Marco Pierre White

  Boys, Media, People

  Source: www.notquitenigella.com

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• I wasn't manufactured. I was cut from the cloth of the very old world of gastronomy. There was no such thing as celebrity chefs, chefs were trained and I like to think that I still represent those old values from that world and the opportunities that I am offered I often say no to.

  Marco Pierre White

  Cutting, Opportunity, Thinking

  Source: www.notquitenigella.com

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• Chef's choice is my favorite. I'm super adventurous.

  Neil Patrick Harris

  Choices, Adventurous, My Favorite

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• All chefs are like Jewish mothers. They want to feed you and feed you and impress you. It's an eagerness to please.

  Padma Lakshmi

  Inspiring, Mothers Day, Want

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• A lot of chefs are traditional and do it very well. But the ones who are the most successful are the ones who change things. That is why someone like Heston Blumenthal is a genius.

  Wolfgang Puck

  Successful, Genius, Wells

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  Chefs are nutters. They're all self-obsessed, delicate, dainty, insecure little souls and absolute psychopaths. Every last one of them.

  Gordon Ramsay

  Insecure, Self, Soul

  "Q&A: Gordon Ramsay Will Chew People Out, But Won't Eat Them". Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.vanityfair.com. July 24, 2009.

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• 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!

  Rachael Ray

  Husband, Air, Feelings

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• I was lucky enough to have great mentors both in the culinary world and in the world of chefs who became celebrities. Bobby Flay is one of my dearest friends and a tremendous mentor for me. Mario Batali is the same way. They began doing TV a little before me and they showed me the way.

  Michael Symon

  Mentor, Lucky, World

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• It's very tempting to have a nanny and live in a gated community and have a chef - I'd love to have a few dinners cooked for me. But I don't want that for my children. When they're older, if people say to them, 'Did you have a chef?' I want them to be shocked by the question.

  Kate Winslet

  Children, People, Community

  "Kate Best at 30". Cosmopolitain Interview, www.cosmopolitan.com. June 08, 2009.

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• People aren't either wicked or noble. They're like chef's salads, with good things and bad things chopped and mixed together in a vinaigrette of confusion and conflict.

  Daniel Handler

  Life, Thinking, People

  "A Series of Unfortunate Events". Adventure, Comedy, Family, 2004.

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• Miss Wormwood: Calvin, your test was an absolute disgrace! It's obvious you haven't read any of the material. Our first president was not Chef Boy-Ar-Dee and you ought to be ashamed to have turned in such preposterous answers! Calvin: I just don't test well.

  Bill Watterson

  Boys, Missing, President

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• This is April," he said, holding up the chicken. "She's the only friend I have left. I saved her from an evil chef at Tavern on the Green, and we've pledged eternal friendship.

  Kirsten Miller

  Evil, Taverns, Green

  Kirsten Miller (2011). “Kiki Strike: The Empress's Tomb”, p.116, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• Millions of American women, and some men, commit that outrage every summer day. They are turning a superb treat into mere provender. Shucked and boiled in water, sweet corn is edible and nutritious; roasted in the husk in the hottest possible oven for forty minutes, shucked at the table, and buttered and salted, nothing else, it is ambrosia. No chef’s ingenuity and imagination have ever created a finer dish. American women should themselves be boiled in water.

  Rex Stout

  Summer, Sweet, Men

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• There's not much you can do about time - it just keeps on passing. But experience? Don't tell me that. I'm not proud of it, but I don't have any sexual desire. And what sort of experience can a writer have if she doesn't feel passion? It'd be like a chef without an appetite.

  Haruki Murakami

  Passion, Desire, Proud

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• It's not sticky unless it touches itself.

  Anne Burrell

  Sticky

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• 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.

  Masaharu Morimoto

  Baseball, Dream, Team

  "Talk Asia", www.cnn.com. February 11, 2012.

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• 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.

  Jessica Stroup

  Girl, Reality, Gossip

  "90210's Jessica Stroup Gives Us The Scoop!". Seventeen Magazine Intreview, www.seventeen.com. February 2, 2009.

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• You don't become a chef to become famous.

  Eric Ripert

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• My new shorty got a gymnastic back,
  '87 emerald green on a classic Jag.
  She had the cleft palate, I ordered chef's salad;
  She had the club foot, with that little arm,
  I couldn't help but laugh...she ordered Chicken Parm.

  Action Bronson

  Rap, Feet, Laughing

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• Something I didn't even know was on my bucket list has been achieved. I have cooked Thanksgiving dinner with Martha Stewart. I vow to follow the gospel of her teachings and do my very best in the remarkably less glamorous kitchen of my own home... without the luxury of magically appearing prep bowls filled by a staff of sous chefs.

  Jesse Tyler Ferguson

  Thanksgiving, Teaching, Home

  "Turkey Day" by Jesse Tyler Ferguson, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 22, 2011.

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• 'The chef on duty will constantly point out the time, name the next project, and finish with 'push!' The entire team then calls it back. It is a simple one, but it gives me goosebumps every time.

  Jorge Hernandez

  Team, Simple, Names

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