Chef Quotes - Page 21

• 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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• Spinach and champagne. Going back to the kitchens at the old Waldorf. Dancing on the kitchen tables, wearing the chef's headgear. Finally, a crash and being escorted out by the house detectives.

  Zelda Fitzgerald

  Dancing, House, Kitchen

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• By the time I was 30, nobody would work with me. I was friendless, I was hopeless, I was suicidal, lost my family - I mean, it was bad. Bottomed out, didn't know what I was going to do. I actually thought I was going to be a chef - go to work in a kitchen someplace.

  Glenn Beck

  Suicidal, Mean, Kitchen

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• Bouillabaisse, this golden soup, this incomparable golden soup which embodies and concentrates all the aromas of our shores and which permeates, like an ecstasy, the stomachs of astonished gastronomes. Bouillabaisse is one of those classic dishes whose glory has encircled the world, and the miracle consists of this: there are as many bouillabaisses as there are good chefs or cordon bleus. Each brings to his own version his special touch.

  Curnonsky

  Food, Miracle, Cooking

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• To be tempted and indulged by the city's most brilliant chefs. It's the dream of every one of us in love with food.

  Gael Greene

  Dream, Food, Cities

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• I always say this to the young chefs and mean it: The customer is excited, he says you are an artist, but we are not, just craftspeople with a little talent. If the chef is an artist, he doesn’t succeed. Why? Because he is inspired today but not tomorrow. We cannot do that.

  Andre Soltner

  Mean, Artist, Littles

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• Male egos require constant stroking. Every task is an achievement, every success epic. That is why women cook, but men are chefs: we make cheese on toast, they produce pain de fromage.

  Belle de Jour

  Pain, Epic, Men

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• If I walk into a place, a party, say, and there's a bookshelf, I immediately gravitate toward it. Unless there's a bar. But even then, it's only a matter of a few rounds before I make my way to the bookshelf. If there are good books on it, I may never leave the spot all night. Anybody I really want to talk to is going to make his or her way to that bookshelf sooner or later, anyway, right? Books are a nexus. They start conversations, and they continue conversations, and they make people better conversationalists. I have not found this to be the case with Iron Chef, or even alcohol.

  Jonathan Evison

  Party, Book, Night

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• Don't take a butcher's advice on how to cook meat. If he knew, he'd be a chef.

  Andy Rooney

  Food, Advice, Cooking

  Andrew A. Rooney (2010). “Andy Rooney: 60 Years of Wisdom and Wit”, p.265, PublicAffairs

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• If an architect makes a mistake, he grows ivy to cover it. If a doctor makes a mistake, he covers it with soil. If a cook makes a mistake, he covers it with some sauce and says it is a new recipe.

  Paul Bocuse

  Mistake, Doctors, Ivy

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• It’s very hard to be an innovator at the highest level in any discipline. For some chefs it’s merely about combining ingredients, but that’s something you can do with your eyes closed.

  Ferran Adria

  Eye, Discipline, Levels

  "What next for El Bulli mastermind Ferran Adrià?". Interview with Stuart Husband, www.telegraph.co.uk. August 2, 2012.

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• I think every chef should have a food truck. It's a good way to test the markets, to invest in meeting the future restaurant goers.

  Jose Andres

  Thinking, Should Have, Food Trucks

  "José Andrés Unveils New Food Truck Pepe" by Rachel Tepper, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 5, 2012.

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• The better the ingredients, the more farmers I can buy from, the closer I feel to the food I want to make that represents what I care about as a chef.

  Alexandra Guarnaschelli

  Care, Want, Ingredients

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• If you are not extreme, then people will take shortcuts because they don't fear you.

  Marco Pierre White

  People, Shortcuts, Extremes

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• Obsolescence is the key to innovation.

  Homaro Cantu

  Keys, Innovation, Obsolescence

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• Set yourself up for success from the very beginning and then focus on maintaining that success.

  Cat Cora

  Focus, Maintaining

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• My two rules of cooking: keep it fresh and keep it simple.

  Michael Isabella

  Simple, Two, Cooking

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• It will always be trendy to do the right thing with food.

  Marcus Samuelsson

  Trendy, Right Thing

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• You need to know your craft.

  Lorena Garcia

  Needs, Crafts, Knows

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• If I could go back and give myself advice, it would be to embrace failure.

  Mary Sue Milliken

  Giving, Advice, Would Be

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