Chef Quotes - Page 5

• My mum and dad are pretty amazing chefs and they spent most of my childhood cooking really extravagant things for my sister and me.

  Jake Gyllenhaal

  Dad, Childhood, Cooking

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• I train my chefs with a blindfold. I'll get my sous chef and myself to cook a dish. The young chef would have to sit down and eat it with a blindfold. If they can't identify the flavor, they shouldn't be cooking the dish.

  Gordon Ramsay

  Cooking, Flavor, Down And

  Source: articles.chicagotribune.com

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• Being a lifetime wife and mother has afforded me the luxury of having multiple careers: I've been a teacher. A chauffeur. A chef. An interior decorator. A landscape architect, as well as a gardener. I’ve been a painter. A personal shopper. An accountant and a banker. I’ve been a beautician. Santa Claus. The Tooth Fairy. A movie reviewer. A nurse. A psychologist. A negotiator. An I have a Ph. D in How to Pretend Like You Don’t Mind.

  Terry McMillan

  Mother, Teacher, Careers

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• People come up to me all the time and ask how I stay the way I am, and it's no secret. The first lesson a chef needs to learn is how to handle a knife; the second is how to be around all that food.

  Marcus Samuelsson

  Knives, People, Secret

  "Secrets of a Skinny Chef" by Marcus Samuelsson, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 23, 2013.

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• As a chef, if I can taste something, I can basically figure out whats in it.

  Kelis

  Taste, Figures, Ifs

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• One of the things is challenging yourself to do a Rome show when everybody's done a Rome show. To find some aspect of food culture or chef culture that people can look at in a new way.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Rome, Food Culture, People

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• Any time you do anything different in this life, it's risky. But I've only done things differently, and it's gotten me quite far. If you want to make a splash, you've got to step out on that ledge and jump. And I could land flat on my face and it would be the biggest nightmare of my life. I'm willing to risk it. I want to help change the way male chefs see females. I want to show them that, yes, we're emotional and, yes, sometimes we make irrational decisions, but we're passionate about what we do, and that passion will propel us to the next level.

  Giada De Laurentiis

  Passion, Emotional, Decision

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• Do something you love and people will love you for it.

  Maneet Chauhan

  Love You, People, Something You Love

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• Two key ingredients in any successful chef: a quick learner and someone with a sharp brain.

  Gordon Ramsay

  Successful, Keys, Two

  Source: www.crushable.com

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• I became a manager very young. My first sous chef job I was, maybe, 25. It was a bit too early for me. But it's on-the-job training. You really just get stuck in there and it's trial and error. You learn by your mistakes, and hopefully you don't keep making them. And if you do, you just keep trying to fix it.

  April Bloomfield

  Jobs, Mistake, Errors

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• A lot of chefs don't have a natural sense of economy. I was with one guy the other day and I had to show him how to peel a turnip, because the way he was peeling turnips, he was throwing half of it in the garbage. It's not about being cheap. It's about being proper.

  Daniel Boulud

  Guy, Half, Way

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• I became friends with a lot of chefs. I was a judge on 'Top Chef' last year. It was a dream come true.

  Joe Jonas

  Dream, Years, Judging

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• Every chef I know, their cholesterol is through the roof. And mine's not so great.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Cholesterol, Roof, Mines

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• Part of being a great restaurant chef is having an ability to bring all those people together, rather like a captain on a rugby field or a coach. It's also being a great teacher, because I'm only one person in a kitchen of 10 and I need to be able to bring all those people together and to teach them. I need to be able to communicate my thoughts and my process to them.

  Paul Rankin

  Teacher, People, Kitchen

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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• In cooking I found my mentor in this great chef, Albert Roux. I think this is a very important thing in life, to find someone who can steer you because to find it all by yourself is quite a difficult and slow process. That's not to say you won't ever get there, but to find a great coach, a great mentor, someone to show you the way and to open a few windows and doors, is a wonderful thing in life.

  Paul Rankin

  Thinking, Doors, Things In Life

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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• There are many places that people can produce really good food. I wouldn't limit it to an area of the country, it's what the chefs have in them.

  Anne Burrell

  Country, People, Limits

  "Anne Burrell Talks Wedding Plans and 'Chef Wanted'". Interview with Lisa Hirsch, www.etonline.com. January 31, 2013.

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• I'm not the type of person to eat big hunks of meat. I think people are starting to realize that great things come in small batches.

  April Bloomfield

  Thinking, People, Meat

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• I was good at math and science, and I got lots of degrees in lots of things, but in a parallel universe, I probably became a chef.

  Nathan Myhrvold

  Math, Degrees, Parallel Universe

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  Being a chef never seems like a job, it becomes a true passion.

  Gordon Ramsay

  Jobs, Passion, Seems

  Source: www.crushable.com

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• Everybody these days wants to be a star, including myself. Don't get me wrong, I'm a chef but you want to market yourself and your projects.

  Geoffrey Zakarian

  Stars, Want, Projects

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• I wanted to write in Kitchenese, the secret language of cooks, instantly recognizable to anyone who has ever dunked french fries for a summer job or suffered under the despotic rule of a tyrannical chef or boobish owner.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Summer, Jobs, Writing

  "Kitchen Confidential". Book by Anthony Bourdain, 2000.

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• If a chef says to you that he sits down and eats dinner before service, then it's bulls***. And if they do, then I'd tell them that they are a fat f***! You shouldn't indulge, because you need to keep your palate on edge, and keeping it on edge is all about small attention to detail and tweaking along the way.

  Gordon Ramsay

  Details, Needs, Attention

  Source: www.esquireme.com

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• In the orchestra of a great kitchen, the sauce chef is a soloist.

  Fernand Point

  Food, Cooking, Kitchen

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• Chef Matt Accarrino has the best pasta in San Francisco, and Shelley Lindgren is one of my favorite sommeliers. Their attention to detail in the service, food, and amazing wines will blow anyone away.

  Elizabeth Falkner

  Wine, Blow, San Francisco

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• When helicopters were snatching people from the grounds of the American embassy compound during the panic of the final Vietcong push into Saigon, I was sitting in front of the television set shouting, Get the chefs! Get the chefs!

  Calvin Trillin

  People, Finals, Sitting

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