New Cooks Quotes

#1. When new cooks come to work for me, they obviously make mistakes at the beginning or there's some messiness to the presentation. What I always say to them is: 'If you were cooking this for your mother or your girlfriend, would you make those mistakes?'

Joel Robuchon

#2. I have a problem with the new cooks: you all are more cultured, you cook better ... but you're lazier.

Juan Mari Arzak

#3. There was a band in Australia named Midnight Oil, and they were a very, very political, and they literally hit you over the head with a hammer. U2 sometimes can hit you over the head with a rubber hammer.

Meat Loaf

#4. I feel I understand Existence, or at least a minute part Of my existence, only through my art,

Vladimir Nabokov

#5. Chef Thomas Keller was an inspiration to me and many, many young cooks like me. He told us that the role of the new, modern chef is different.

David Chang

#6. We all make mistakes. The more you punish yourself for them, the harder it is to live.

Kristina Adams

#7. Change is always happening. That's one of the wonderful things about jazz music.

Maynard Ferguson

#8. Tiki was uncomfortably aware of how close Rieker was standing to her, yet at the same time she felt pulled toward him, as though in the grip of a magnet.

Kiki Hamilton

#9. I really enjoy when I'm asked questions that leap from the physical world and the material world into our hearts.

Jok Church

#10. I prefer for 'my world' to have the highest certification of being a faithful representation of the exterior world.

Jesus Zamora Bonilla

#11. If your potential mate does not have the same perspective that you do then you're going to be lost.

Eva LaRue

#12. Some of the best cooks that I've cooked with, whether it's in New York or Chicago or even here in Philadelphia, are actually Ecuadorians. And there's something about their palates that really just inspires me, and has a really deep sense of flavor.

Jose Garces

#13. A false alarm was almost worse than the real thing.

Andrew Garve

#14. 'Kitchen Confidential' wasn't a cautionary or an expose. I wrote it as an entertainment for New York tri-state area line cooks and restaurant lifers, basically; I had no expectation that it would move as far west as Philadelphia.

Anthony Bourdain

#15. The stupid thing I incorrectly believed for a long time is that I believed for a long time that some politicians could sometimes tell the truth.

David Crosby

#16. In New York, we're always confined with spaces. Our restaurants are difficult to navigate as cooks and to operate. We fight against the buildings we run in New York.

David Chang

#17. New York has magnificent eating available, both in restaurants and in the materials available to home cooks in the many specialty markets.

Steve Albini

#18. Most cooks would not, for example, prepare an important, elaborate, and difficult dish on the back-burner. Neither should we relegate the cultivation and preparation of happiness for a position where it is both hard to reach and difficult to infuse with new ingredients.

Gina Barreca

#19. his smile was alone on his face. His eyes were sad and angry.

Bobby Adair