Quotes About A Good Chef

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

Wolfgang Puck

#2. 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

#3. a good recipe in the hands of a bad chef is still distasteful! A good chef must have a discriminating palate, and a good band director must have a discerning ear

Mary Ellen Cavitt

#4. 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

#5. I saw then how I could be a good Buddhist and a good chef, and serve meat that is given freely, without suffering.

Matthew Johnson

#6. The text, written in Latin, was inspired by a fifteenth-century chef known as Maestro Martino and was called De honesta voluptate et valitudine, On honest pleasures and good health.

Bill Buford

#7. 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

#8. Delivering a speech or presentation is like cooking a meal; as long as the chef is good the cuisine doesn't matter.

Jack Canfield

#9. Anyone who's a chef, who loves food, ultimately knows that all that matters is: 'Is it good? Does it give pleasure?'

Anthony Bourdain

#10. If you are a chef, no matter how good a chef you are, it's not good cooking for yourself; the joy is in cooking for others - it's the same with music.

Will.i.am

#11. I think, as a chef and restaurateur, that you have to take care of your business. Otherwise, you're only as good as your last meal. You have to watch if your food costs are too high, or you could be out of business in no time.

Jean-Georges Vongerichten

#12. The celebrity-chef thing, even at its worst, its most annoying, its silliest, its goofiest, its most egregious and cynical, has been a good thing.

Anthony Bourdain

#13. 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

#14. Many of them have accomplished a lot before they ever get to 'Top Chef' although they're not well known. The show just provides them with a platform. There's just one winner and on some seasons you can get numerous chefs that are really good. Even if they don't win, they're all talented.

Tom Colicchio

#15. If you have a good experience in a restaurant, you tell 2 people. If you have a bad experience, you tell 10 people.

Anthony Bourdain

#16. 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

#17. like slicing bread, thick-skinned tomatoes and so on - but on your full line of vegetables, spuds, meat and even fish. My sous-chef uses his for just about everything. F. Dick makes a good one for about twenty-five bucks.

Anthony Bourdain

#18. 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

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

Fernand Point

#20. 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

#21. Even if the chef has a good business head, his focus should be behind kitchen doors. A business partner should take care of everything in front of the kitchen doors.

Bobby Flay

#22. A Good Recipe Is As Good As The Chef That Cooks It

Kirk Castle

#23. I would have thought you'd import an English staff?"
"Good heavens, no! I would not wish a British chef on anyone except the French tax collectors.

Dan Brown

#24. Having been a chef for some many years, I understand what it's like to work really, really hard to get good at something, only to have someone piss all over it.

Anthony Bourdain

#25. Before acting, I wanted to become a journalist. I also toyed with the idea of being a chef - but that's only when people asked me what I wanted to be. In fact, I always used to say I wanted to be an actor, but I didn't ever believe that I was good enough to be come one.

Ian McKellen

#26. 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

#27. 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

#28. I'm not a chef. I haven't created any new technique in the kitchen. I'm not a rocket scientist. I think I'm good at writing accessible, fun, and affordable meals for the average American family. That's what I think I'm good at.

Rachael Ray

#29. I am well aware that a chef is only as good as his last meal.

Gordon Ramsay

#30. I don't think it's a good advert for any restaurant, a fat chef, and secondly, who wants to eat a dessert when the chef's a fat pig.

Gordon Ramsay

#31. 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

#32. I think it's a universal truth that most chefs I know are happiest eating simple, unadorned good things.

Anthony Bourdain

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

Erica Ariel Fox

#34. I think every chef should have a food truck. It's a good way to test the markets, to invest in meeting the future restaurant goers.

Jose Andres

#35. People aren't either wicked or noble. They're like chef's salads, with good things and bad things chopped and mixed together in a vinaigrette of confusion and conflict.

Lemony Snicket

#36. A FRIGHTENED, ANGRY, FOUR-HUNDRED-POUND, antisocial chef with a combat shotgun never leads to anything good.

Dean Koontz

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

Jon Favreau