Great Chef Quotes

#1. Mario you are a great chef but you look like a homeless James Gandolfini.

Jim Norton

#2. Hassan, he has the makings of a great chef, it is true, and he has talent beyond anything you and I possess.

Richard C. Morais

#3. I love doing demonstrations. I think to be a great chef you have to be a great teacher. I love doing classes with people who love food and enjoy food, bringing them all around one table so to speak.

Michael Symon

#4. 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

#5. One thing I always say is being a great chef today is not enough - you have to be a great businessman.

Wolfgang Puck

#6. If you want to become a great chef, you have to work with great chefs. And that's exactly what I did.

Gordon Ramsay

#7. 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

#8. I wanted to learn everything I could about what it takes to be a great chef. It was a turning point for me.

Thomas Keller

#9. A great chef is an artist that I truly respect.

Robert Stack

#10. My grandfather was a great chef.

Douglas Booth

#11. First of all, I can't really claim to be a great chef.

Martin Yan

#12. Becoming a great leader, a great athlete, or great chef takes more than desire or even knowledge. It takes effort. It takes practice.

Dave Anderson

#13. To me, there's no great chef without a great team.

Daniel Boulud

#14. Cooking is not difficult. Everyone has taste, even if they don't realize it. Even if you're not a great chef, there's nothing to stop you understanding the difference between what tastes good and what doesn't.

Gerard Depardieu

#15. In my early days, I copied the great French chefs, like most chefs do. Copying is not bad. Copying and not recognizing that you are copying is bad. For me, when I go to a restaurant and am served a dish influenced by something we created at elBulli, if it's well done, it makes me extremely happy.

Ferran Adria

#16. I've been experimenting more and more with LN2, liquid nitrogen. I've used it in battle on 'Iron Chef America,' but have also made some great ice creams at home for my family. Since it freezes basically on contact, you can have ice cream ready in mere minutes.

Cat Cora

#17. If you were to go to a restaurant and disagree with Daniel Boulud, he'd probably throw something at you. Restaurant chefs have a problem with caterers because we accommodate special requests, but great service is about getting exactly what you want.

David Castle

#18. No great pastry chef has sweet teeth.

Morley Safer

#19. I am so proud of 'Top Chef' - I think it's got great cred.

Andy Cohen

#20. The exposure from 'Iron Chef' has been helpful, but at the end of the day your product and your service determine whether you get customers or not. If people decide to eat out less during a recession, the first restaurants that they will cut out are the ones that don't do a great job.

Michael Symon

#21. It is great to add some glamour to the food industry, like television shows have done for the food world and inspiring people to work in the industry. The flip side of that is unfortunately people think that after they get their qualifications, they get their invitation to compete on 'Top Chef.'

Curtis Stone

#22. Roberto Donna is a great Italian chef.

Jose Andres

#23. Ever since I read 'Kitchen Confidential,' I saw a little light bulb go off. Being a chef is like being on a pirate ship; it's not like 'Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe?' or whatever my impression was as I was growing up.

Jon Favreau

#24. I've never said I was a chef - I think I make great food. I will never open a restaurant to do, like, tasting courses.

Eddie Huang

#25. 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

#26. The album 'Kelis Was Here' sucked the life out of me, and so I went off and studied to be a Cordon Bleu chef. What's great about food is that it's less about who you know and what you look like, and more about if you're any good.

Kelis

#27. I'd like to see 'Top Chef: Amateur'. Sometimes we have an amateur chef on the show and they just can't cut it against the pros but there are some great stories there.

Tom Colicchio

#28. Having a sous-chef with excellent cooking skills and a criminal mind is one of God's great gifts.

Anthony Bourdain

#29. It's an interesting thing, Top Chef. Some of the contestants will make you one great dish, and then make you something on the next show that will make you say, "Is that the same person?"

Wolfgang Puck

#30. I have great empathy for all the contestants that come on 'Top Chef,' whether they go home right away or they make it to the finish line. It's a very vulnerable position they put themselves in and I feel for them.

Padma Lakshmi

#31. I'm one of those people who're good at everything but I'm not great at anything. I thought I'd be a chef or a teacher.

Jesse Lacey

#32. Did you ever want something so deeply you were scared to let yourself have it? Like a desire so great you know you will never forgive yourself if you fail. So you hang back. And then you wake up one day and you realize if you don't do it now, it will move out of reach forever.

Nicole Mones

#33. A meal becomes good by starting with quality instructions. It becomes great when you add a quality chef.

Erica Ariel Fox

#34. It helps immerse yourself in what you potentially want to do. Being involved, learning firsthand and observing the craft and absorbing all you can, makes it easier to define what you want. It will also ultimately make you a better Chef. Culinary school, or even a single class, is a great bet too.

Giada De Laurentiis

#35. I get along great with my family. My parents are really proud of me and my brother, who's a chef here in New York. I don't see my parents often, but they're very supportive, especially as I get older.

Alison Mosshart

#36. One of the great awards from a chef's point of view are Michelin stars. The ultimate is three Michelin stars. For example, Gordon Ramsey has three Michelin stars. Having one Michelin star is a big deal, two is incredible and having three puts you in a bracket of maybe 30 chefs worldwide.

Paul Rankin

#37. I wasn't that great a chef, and I don't think I'm that great a writer.

Anthony Bourdain

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

Anthony Bourdain

#40. The scotch egg is such a Scottish food. It's as though a great Scottish chef said: I need a tasty snack. Let's take an egg ... and wrap it in meat!! Makes it a bit harder.

Bill Bailey

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

Fernand Point

#42. I'm proud of the way I rearrange and put things together, like a chef who makes a great meal, or a filmmaker who puts together a story - it's casting, editing, cinematography.

Bonnie Raitt