Chef Cook Quotes

#1. My husband is the chef of the family; he's a brilliant cook. Actually, it makes you quite lazy when you have somebody that's so good at cooking under the same roof. It's all beans or spaghetti when I'm left to run it.

Keeley Hawes

#2. Last week I told my wife, If you would learn to cook, I could fire the chef. She said, If you could learn to make love, I could fire the chauffer.

Rodney Dangerfield

#3. In Europe I couldn't be anything but a black cook working for somebody. My inspiration was to own, to be the chef.

Marcus Samuelsson

#4. I have dreams of becoming a professional pastry chef and having a little bakery - that's how much I love baking. I love to cook in general, but my heart lies in desserts.

Kim Barnouin

#5. Sauces comprise the honor and glory of French cookery. They have contributed to its superiority, or pre-eminence, which is disputed by none. Sauces are the orchestration and accompaniment of a fine meal, and enable a good chef or cook to demonstrate his talent.

Curnonsky

#6. No question, your best times as a cook are the chef de partie years. Chef in charge of a section. It's the best and hardest job in the kitchen.

Tom Sellers

#7. When you're a chef, you graze. You never get a chance to sit down and eat. They don't actually sit down and eat before you cook. So when I finish work, the first thing I'll do, and especially when I'm in New York, I'll go for a run. And I'll run 10 or 15k on my - and I run to gain my appetite.

Gordon Ramsay

#8. I make a really delicious eggplant and squash curry that's inspired by Vij of Vij's Restaurant, a great chef and restaurateur in Vancouver. I like to cook that dish because it's really simple, but the flavor is so pungent and intense that I feel like I'm a real chef whenever I create it.

Carmen Ejogo

#9. I train my chefs completely different to anyone else. My young girls and guys, when they come to the kitchen, the first thing they get is a blindfold. They get blindfolded and they get sat down at the chef's table ... Unless they can identify what they're tasting, they don't get to cook it.

Gordon Ramsay

#10. Whenever I want to know how to cook something, I can't ask one chef - I have to ask six.

Alice Waters

#11. 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

#12. Now everybody thinks that once you do Top Chef, then 13 weeks later you're a chef. Nobody wants to learn to cook anymore.

Wolfgang Puck

#13. My dream as a passionate cook has been to go to Le Cordon Bleu. Never could my most incredible dream have lived up to the experience. The food, the lesson, the chef, the ingredients - all the best of the best. I see why Le Cordon Bleu is world-renowned.

Blake Lively

#14. I'm not a trained chef. I'm a self-taught cook, and I want people to be like, 'Yo, I could do that! Maybe I didn't think to or maybe it seemed harder than it really is.'

Haylie Duff

#15. I call all chefs 'cooks.' They're all cooks. That's what we do, we cook. You're a chef when you're running a kitchen.

Tom Colicchio

#16. The worst food you'll ever eat will probably be prepared by a 'cook' who calls himself a 'chef.' Mark my words.

Alton Brown

#17. I've been a cook all my life, but I am still learning to be a good chef. I'm always learning new techniques and improving beyond my own knowledge because there is always something new to learn and new horizons to discover.

Jose Andres

#18. One of the things I've found now, not just for television, but in the restaurant, is that you have many anxious chefs, who know how to cook twenty recipes really well, but they don't have a good foundation for other things.

Wolfgang Puck

#19. Cooking is for chefs. Science informs us and lets us cook while knowing what we are doing, but it is not a replacement for the skills of a chef.

Nathan Myhrvold

#20. My grandmother was a chef, and she taught me to cook. One day I want a restaurant, a small Italian grill. That's my aspiration.

Jeremy Miller

#21. Great sex and awesome food is what conquered the beast, not beauty. The key to happiness is to fuck like a porn star and cook like a five star chef.

Travis Luedke

#22. The last thing a chef wants in a line cook is an innovator, somebody with ideas of his own who is going to mess around with the chef's recipes and presentations. Chefs require blind, near-fanatical loyalty, a strong back and an automaton-like consistency of execution under battlefield conditions.

Anthony Bourdain

#23. I have a theory that the people who cook in jails are British chefs.

Steve Earle

#24. A good apprentice cook must be as polite with the dishwasher as with the chef.

Fernand Point

#25. I'm a good cook, and I look at something like 'Iron Chef' and think, 'It's a good thing I already know how to cook' - because I would never think I could do it if I watched these shows.

Nora Ephron

#26. I'm a chef, I'm a cook, I was created by this industry, and I like to think I'm giving back. But I'm not giving back because I can make a scallop souffle, I'm giving back because I can make compost.

Arthur Potts Dawson

#27. 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

#28. I know my way around the kitchen. I like to cook, so I can fry an egg. I guess I could be a fry cook at Bob's Big Boy or something, or maybe a sous chef somewhere a little nicer. I would like to do that. I think I can probably pick that up pretty quickly.

Christopher Stanley

#29. 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. Fancy ingredients or recipes not required; simple, made-up things are usually even better.

Erin Morgenstern

#30. A lot of people love the idea of improvising but are terrified of it, so I tried to make a book that was not a chef's book about improvising but a real home cook's book with a real home cook's pantry, supermarket ingredients, that sort of thing.

Sally Schneider

#31. I lurched away from the table after a few hours feeling like Elvis in Vegas - fat, drugged, and completely out of it.

Anthony Bourdain

#32. You have no choice as a professional chef: you have to repeat, repeat, repeat, repeat until it becomes part of yourself. I certainly don't cook the same way I did 40 years ago, but the technique remains. And that's what the student needs to learn: the technique.

Jacques Pepin

#33. I'm not on chef level, but I'd make a good line cook. That's not too shabby.

Jon Favreau

#34. On traditional economic theory:
We do not play chess as if we were a grandmaster, invest as if we were Warren Buffett, or cook like an Iron Chef. It is more likely we cook like Warren Buffett, who loves to eat at Dairy Queen.

Richard H. Thaler

#35. 'Chef' doesn't mean that you're the best cook, it simply means 'boss.'

Tom Colicchio

#36. I don't consider myself a rock star chef, I really don't. I cook for a living and I try to help out as many people as I can in my life and that's all I care about. I don't care about the fame of television, I use to a lot.

Robert Irvine

#37. I enjoy what I do because it keeps evolving - when I was a cook, I wanted to be a chef de partie; when I was a chef de partie, I wanted to be a chef; when I was a chef, I wanted to be a restaurateur, and now I am a chef entrepreneur. I am still fulfilling my dream.

Daniel Boulud

#38. A good chef has to be a manager, a businessman and a great cook. To marry all three together is sometimes difficult.

Wolfgang Puck

#39. I am not a chef. I can't claim that title. The difference is a cook doesn't have a degree. A chef has formal education. It has nothing to do with talent or actual preparation - one just can't claim the title if you don't have degree.

Anna Pump

#40. I'm a home cook and love to read about food, but I'm not trained as a chef. I'm just really into cooking and passionate about it.

Ted Allen

#41. I used to take culinary arts at Job Corps so I'm a certified chef. I could cook chicken alfredo.

Gorilla Zoe

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

Andy Rooney

#43. I am not a chef. I am not even a trained or professional cook. My qualification is as an eater.

Nigella Lawson

#44. Giada De Laurentiis, of 'Everyday Italian,' is not a chef, although she has culinary expertise - she was trained at the Cordon Bleu and worked as a private cook for a wealthy Los Angeles family.

Bill Buford

#45. 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

#46. My mother likes what I cook, but doesn't think it's French. My wife is Puerto Rican and Cuban, so I eat rice and beans. We have a place in Mexico, but people think I'm the quintessential French chef.

Jacques Pepin

#47. A burnt and experienced hands are more important than the vessels in the kitchen.

Nikita Dudani

#48. I'm a decent cook; I'm a decent chef. None of my friends would ever have hired me at any point in my career. Period.

Anthony Bourdain

#49. If I have a really bad cook or a bad manager or bad sous-chef, I previously would have fired them or lost my temper. But now I realize that if I'm so right, then I should be able to communicate it so clearly that they get it.

David Chang

#50. Learning about issues such as sustainability and locavorism are things that you need to have as part of you as a chef because it will make you cook more delicious food.

Rene Redzepi

#51. I'm not a chef. I think in this country, we use the term very loosely. I'm a cook and a teacher.

Julia Child

#52. Chef: Any cook who swears in French.

Henry Beard

#53. My reasons for becoming a chef are somewhat of a cliche. I always loved to eat but it was watching my parents cook that really served as the impetus for my career choice.

Alexandra Guarnaschelli

#54. The best way to learn to cook is to do some serious eating.

Alexandra Guarnaschelli

#55. My boyfriend is a chef, so he cooks for me, but I cook too. The only time I felt pressure was when he asked how I wanted vegetables chopped, so I described in sizes whereas he knows the right words. I felt a bit daft then.

Sharleen Spiteri

#56. Maybe one of the only things I do well: I cook like a maniac! I would be a chef if I weren't an actor.

Ian Somerhalder

#57. 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

#58. I tell a student that the most important class you can take is technique. A great chef is first a great technician. 'If you are a jeweler, or a surgeon or a cook, you have to know the trade in your hand. You have to learn the process. You learn it through endless repetition until it belongs to you.

Jacques Pepin

#59. Sometimes you just dread reading scripts; it's like the chef who doesn't want to cook at home.

Martin Henderson