Chef Quotes - Page 8

• If I had to have a favorite chef, I'd probably say I like Guy Fieri.

  G. Garvin

  Guy, Ifs

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• You don't have to be a chef or even a particularly good cook to experience proper kitchen alchemy: the moment when ingredients combine to form something more delectable than the sum of their parts.

  Erin Morgenstern

  Kitchen, Ingredients, Moments

  "Magic Moments in Life" By Erin Morgenstern, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 19, 2012.

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• Slaves were taught to be fine chefs, but they endangered their lives if they made a mistake or served an ill-prepared dish. Rather than being reprimanded, they were often hauled into the dining room and flogged in the presence of the guests.

  Jeff Smith

  Mistake, Food, Dining

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• I'm evangelical on the subject of some chefs and writers.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Evangelical, Subjects

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• The essence of Reality TV is all about drama. So, I think bringing pressure is healthy whether it's a professional chef or a domestic chef. Because the only way ever to really identify the true purpose of how good they are is submerging them under pressure. So I say it's no different than a live football game because it's about the intensity.

  Gordon Ramsay

  Football, Drama, Reality

  Source: deadline.com

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• You can call me the bad boy chef all you want. I'm not going to freak out about it. I'm not that bad. I'm certainly not a boy, and it's been a while since I've been a chef.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Boys, Want, Freak

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• Young chefs, famous chefs, home cooks, and everyone who loves food and cooking-we all depend on Larousse Gastronomique. It is the only culinary encyclopedia that is always up-to-date.

  Daniel Boulud

  Home, Cooking, Culinary

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• Tokyo would probably be the foreign city if I had to eat one city's food for the rest of my life, every day. It would have to be Tokyo, and I think the majority of chefs you ask that question would answer the same way.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Thinking, Cities, Majority

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• Larousse Gastronomique is a veritable dictionary of cooking terms for the French kitchen. If a chef were allowed only one book, this would have to be it.

  Mario Batali

  Book, Cooking, Kitchen

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• There are chefs who are spectacular technicians, and often their food is worth eating once or twice, but if there's no heart in it, if there's no personality in it, it's not something you want to go back for. But heart without any skill at all? All the heart in the world ain't gonna help you if you can't peel an onion, or if you don't understand how to apply heat properly. A well-done steak is a well-done steak.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Heart, Skills, Personality

  Interview with Sean O'Neal, www.avclub.com. January 8, 2008.

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• Cooking is work that is traditionally done by working-class people. The work itself is not glamorous. It's repetitive, and it's a lot closer to factory work than art, whatever level you're doing it at. Certainly chefs are used to living like rock 'n' rollers to some extent, inasmuch as we get a lot of those fringe benefits without having to learn how to play guitar.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Art, Rocks, Guitar

  Interview with Sean O'Neal, www.avclub.com. January 8, 2008.

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• My plans are not to open a restaurant, but what I would like to do is open a kitchen somewhere in D.C. proper and have a chef's table where people can come and taste my food without having to have a catered event.

  Carla Hall

  People, Kitchen, Tables

  "Top Chef Finalist Carla Hall Dishes on the Competition". Washington Post Live Q&A, www.washingtonpost.com. February 25, 2009.

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• I think food trucks are the new answer to American fast food. The idea of raising two or three million dollars and going through red tape to open a restaurant, there's lots of barriers to success. There's a really easy jumping place for food trucks. It's very hip and acceptable for new chefs to open a food truck first.

  Tyler Florence

  Thinking, Ideas, Two

  "Q&A With Tyler Florence, Host of the Food Network’s Great Food Truck Race". Interview with Sarah Bennett, www.dmagazine.com. November 30, 2012.

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• If there was ever a food that had politics behind it, it is soul food. Soul food became a symbol of the black power movement in the late 1960s. Chef Marcus Samuelsson, with his soul food restaurant Red Rooster in Harlem, is very clear about what soul food represents. It is a food of memory, a food of labor.

  Marcie Cohen Ferris

  Memories, Soul, Black

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• There are those who say that poets should use her and his art to change the world. I'd agree with that, but I think everybody should do that. I think the chef and the baker and the candlestick maker - I think everybody should be hoping to make it a better world.

  Maya Angelou

  Art, Thinking, Bakers

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Celebrity chefs are the leaders in the field of food, and we are the led. Why should the leaders of chemical businesses be held responsible for polluting the marine environment with a few grams of effluent, which is sublethal to marine species, while celebrity chefs are turning out endangered fish at several dozen tables a night without enduring a syllable of criticism?

  Charles Clover

  Marine, Night, Sea

  Charles Clover (2008). “The End of the Line: How Overfishing is Changing the World and what We Eat”, p.189, Univ of California Press

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• The popularity of the Internet and using it as an available resource has really changed the way chefs kind of gather information and look for inspiration. To me, a food trend is potentially a lot of people following an idea.

  Grant Achatz

  Inspiration, Ideas, People

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• There's only one cook in the kitchen, only one chef. I let the soloists do their thing - you've gotta let a man do a solo the way he wants - but as far as picking the tunes and working on the arrangements, I take full responsibility for it.

  Gregg Allman

  Responsibility, Men, Kitchen

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Great food needed more than chefs; it needed gourmet diners.

  Nicole Mones

  Gourmet, Diners, Great Food

  Jenna Blum, Maggie O'Farrell, Molly Gloss, Nicole Mones, Elizabeth Benedict (2010). “The Best Contemporary Women's Fiction: Six Novels”, p.724, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I am a bit of a gourmet chef. I love cooking mostly Thai food. And a lot of times on movies, you have these trailers that have these little ovens and kitchenettes. A lot of actors never use them, but I would cook lunch just about every day.

  Will Ferrell

  Lunch, Cooking, Gourmet

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• When we're coming up to the race, the Friday, Saturday and Sunday, I always have the same lunch. So that's before the second practice, before qualifying and before the race, I always have a tuna vegetable risotto. The chef makes it slightly spicy, so there's a bit of a kick.

  Valtteri Bottas

  Friday, Sunday, Race

  Source: in.askmen.com

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• What you're going to be eating in the next year is decided by chefs. If the consensus is that pot-bellies are in next season, that's what's on your plate. And I think that's a good thing, because we know, obviously, about food.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Thinking, Years, Next Year

  "Regrets? He's had a few ..." by Euan Ferguson, www.theguardian.com. April 29, 2006.

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• Having survived her 10th London winter (she got through January by assigning it "international month," and amusing Moses and his big sister, Apple, 9, with a visiting Italian chef, Japanese anime screenings, and hand-rolled-sushi lessons, no less), Paltrow admits that her dreams of relocating the family to their recently acquired residence in Brentwood, California, are becoming ever more urgent.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Dream, Winter, Italian

  "Gwyneth Unveiled" by Sarah Bailey, www.harpersbazaar.com. April 11, 2013.

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• I've been nominated for 12 Emmys, and we won - for 'Top Chef' - the only time I didn't go.

  Andy Cohen

  Emmys, Only Time

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• Every chef should have an understanding of pastries or desserts.

  Tom Colicchio

  Should Have, Understanding, Dessert

  "Top Chef's Tom Colicchio: Toby 'Didn't Have the Most Authoritative Voice'". Interview with Gina DiNunno, www.tvguide.com. June 22, 2010.

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