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    Home » Inspiration » Quotes » 101 Inspirational Chef Quotes To Inspire Your Cooking (2022)

    101 Inspirational Chef Quotes To Inspire Your Cooking (2022)

    Jul 23, 2022 · 11 Comments

    101 inspirational chef quotes (2022)
    101 inspirational chef quotes (2022)

    Some best quotes of all time comes from famous cooks. These 101 Inspirational Chef Quotes encourages and motivates you to brave the kitchen, manage a team or simply to host the best dinner part ever! My favourites includes Julia Child and Anthony Bourdain.

    101 inspirational chef quotes (2022)
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    • Famous Chef Quotes
    • Thomas Keller
    • Julia Child
    • Gordon Ramsay
    • Wolfgang Puck
    • Anthony Bourdain
    • Paul Prudhomme
    • Others Celebrity Chefs

    Famous Chef Quotes

    Thomas Keller

    “You’re getting to know who the great chefs are through their books.” Thomas Keller
    “You’re getting to know who the great chefs are through their books.” Thomas Keller
    “Let’s face it: if you and I have the same capabilities, the same energy, the same staff, if the only thing that’s different between you and me is the products we can get, and I can get a better product than you, I’m going to be a better chef.” Thomas Keller
    “Let’s face it: if you and I have the same capabilities, the same energy, the same staff, if the only thing that’s different between you and me is the products we can get, and I can get a better product than you, I’m going to be a better chef.” Thomas Keller
    "A recipe has no soul. You as the cook must bring soul to the recipe." Thomas Keller
    "A recipe has no soul. You as the cook must bring soul to the recipe." Thomas Keller

    “In any restaurant of this caliber, the chefs are in the same position, building relationships.” Thomas Keller
    “In any restaurant of this caliber, the chefs are in the same position, building relationships.” Thomas Keller

    “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
    “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

    Julia Child

    “The only real stumbling block is fear of failure. In cooking you’ve got to have a what-the-hell attitude.” Julia Child
    “The only real stumbling block is fear of failure. In cooking you’ve got to have a what-the-hell attitude.” Julia Child
    “You never forget a beautiful thing that you have made. Even after you eat it, it stays with you – always.” Julia Child
    “You never forget a beautiful thing that you have made. Even after you eat it, it stays with you – always.” Julia Child
    “I was 32 when I started cooking; up until then, I just ate.” Julia Child
    “I was 32 when I started cooking; up until then, I just ate.” Julia Child
    “People who love to eat are always the best people.” Julia Child
    “People who love to eat are always the best people.” Julia Child
    "Always remember: If you’re alone in the kitchen and you drop the lamb, you can always just pick it up. Who’s going to know?." Julia Child
    "Always remember: If you’re alone in the kitchen and you drop the lamb, you can always just pick it up. Who’s going to know?." Julia Child
    "You don’t have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces, just good food from fresh ingredients." Julia Chila
    "You don’t have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces, just good food from fresh ingredients." Julia Child
    "People who love to eat are always the best people." Julia Child
    "People who love to eat are always the best people." Julia Child
    “The only time to eat diet food is while you’re waiting for the steak to cook.” Julia Child
    “The only time to eat diet food is while you’re waiting for the steak to cook.” Julia Child

    Gordon Ramsay

    “Chefs don’t do ponytails and we shouldn’t do them because I guarantee that whenever there’s a discovery of hair in the food, it’s guaranteed it’s from the chef’s ponytail.” Gordon Ramsay
    “Chefs don’t do ponytails and we shouldn’t do them because I guarantee that whenever there’s a discovery of hair in the food, it’s guaranteed it’s from the chef’s ponytail.” Gordon Ramsay
    “If you want to become a great chef, you have to work with great chefs. And that’s exactly what I did.” Gordon Ramsay
    “If you want to become a great chef, you have to work with great chefs. And that’s exactly what I did.” Gordon Ramsay
    "Chefs are nutters. They're all self-obsessed, delicate, dainty, insecure little souls, and absolute psychopaths. Every last one of them." Gordon Ramsay

    "Chefs are nutters. They're all self-obsessed, delicate, dainty, insecure little souls, and absolute psychopaths. Every last one of them." Gordon Ramsay
    "There's a bond among a kitchen staff, I think. You spend more time with your chef in the kitchen than you do with your own family." Gordon Ramsay
    "There's a bond among a kitchen staff, I think. You spend more time with your chef in the kitchen than you do with your own family." Gordon Ramsay
    "I am a chef who happens to appear on the telly, that's it." Gordon Ramsay
    "I am a chef who happens to appear on the telly, that's it." Gordon Ramsay
    “Get your shit together!” Gordon Ramsey
    “Get your shit together!” Gordon Ramsay
    “I think every chef, not just in America, but across the world, has a double-edged sword – two jackets, one that’s driven, a self-confessed perfectionist, thoroughbred, hate incompetence and switch off the stove, take off the jacket and become a family man.” Gordon Ramsay
    “I think every chef, not just in America, but across the world, has a double-edged sword – two jackets, one that’s driven, a self-confessed perfectionist, thoroughbred, hate incompetence and switch off the stove, take off the jacket and become a family man.” Gordon Ramsay

    Wolfgang Puck

    “A good chef has to be a manager, a businessman and a great cook. To marry all three together is sometimes difficult.” Wolfgang Puck
    “A good chef has to be a manager, a businessman and a great cook. To marry all three together is sometimes difficult.” Wolfgang Puck
    "The most important thing for me is to really buy the best ingredients." Wolfgang Puck
    "The most important thing for me is to really buy the best ingredients." Wolfgang Puck
    “A chef is a mixture maybe of artistry and craft. You have to learn the craft really to get there.” Wolfgang Puck
    “A chef is a mixture maybe of artistry and craft. You have to learn the craft really to get there.” Wolfgang Puck

    Anthony Bourdain

    “Is it a good hot dog? That’s all I want to know … I don’t think the personal health and purity of my colon is that important compared to pleasure. As a chef, I’m not your dietitian or your ethicist. I’m in the pleasure business …. My responsibility is to give you the most delicious tomato that I can afford, given the circumstances, and maybe increase the likelihood that you get laid after dinner.” Anthony Bourdain
    “Is it a good hot dog? That’s all I want to know … I don’t think the personal health and purity of my colon is that important compared to pleasure. As a chef, I’m not your dietitian or your ethicist. I’m in the pleasure business …. My responsibility is to give you the most delicious tomato that I can afford, given the circumstances, and maybe increase the likelihood that you get laid after dinner.” Anthony Bourdain
    "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
    "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
    "Good food is very often, even most often, simple food." Anthony Bourdain
    "Good food is very often, even most often, simple food." Anthony Bourdain
    “An ounce of sauce covers a multitude of sins.” Anthony Bourdain
    “An ounce of sauce covers a multitude of sins.” Anthony Bourdain

    Paul Prudhomme

    “I think the most wonderful thing in the world is another chef. I’m always excited about learning new things about food.” Paul Prudhomme
    “I think the most wonderful thing in the world is another chef. I’m always excited about learning new things about food.” Paul Prudhomme
    "I opened a restaurant that had nothing but California wines." Paul Prudhomme
    "I opened a restaurant that had nothing but California wines." Paul Prudhomme
    "I think the most wonderful thing in the world is another chef. I'm always excited about learning new things about food." Paul Prudhomme
    "I think the most wonderful thing in the world is another chef. I'm always excited about learning new things about food." Paul Prudhomme
    "We're working people, and that's what we like to do, work." Paul Prudhomme
    "We're working people, and that's what we like to do, work." Paul Prudhomme

    Others Celebrity Chefs

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    "If you really want to make a friend, go to someone's house and eat with him... the people who give you their food give you their heart." Cesar Chavez
    "If you really want to make a friend, go to someone's house and eat with him... the people who give you their food give you their heart." Cesar Chavez
    "It's difficult to think anything but pleasant thoughts while eating a homegrown tomato." Lewis Grizzard
    "It's difficult to think anything but pleasant thoughts while eating a homegrown tomato." Lewis Grizzard
    "There is not a good or a bad cuisine, just the one you like the best." Ferran Adria
    "There is not a good or a bad cuisine, just the one you like the best." Ferran Adria
    "Cooking is at once child’s play and adult joy. And cooking done with care is an act of love." Craig Claiborne
    "Cooking is at once child’s play and adult joy. And cooking done with care is an act of love." Craig Claiborne
    "Cooking requires confident guesswork and improvisation — experimentation and substitution, dealing with failure and uncertainty in a creative way." Paul Theroux
    "Cooking requires confident guesswork and improvisation — experimentation and substitution, dealing with failure and uncertainty in a creative way." Paul Theroux
    "The ambition of every good cook must be to make something very good with the fewest possible ingredients." Urbain Dubois
    "The ambition of every good cook must be to make something very good with the fewest possible ingredients." Urbain Dubois
    "Design a menu which will allow you to actually be part of the dinner party atmosphere" Kerth Gumbs
    "Design a menu which will allow you to actually be part of the dinner party atmosphere" Kerth Gumbs
    “I think preparing food and feeding people brings nourishment not only to our bodies but to our spirits.” Shauna Niequist
    “I think preparing food and feeding people brings nourishment not only to our bodies but to our spirits.” Shauna Niequist
    "You don’t need to have a Rolls-Royce kitchen to make a great meal.” Tom Colicchio
    "You don’t need to have a Rolls-Royce kitchen to make a great meal.” Tom Colicchio
    "...who likes cooking and for whom sharing food is a form of expression." Maya Angelou
    "...who likes cooking and for whom sharing food is a form of expression." Maya Angelou
    "A sushi chef has to spot the best-quality fresh fish instantly." Nobu Matsuhisa
    "A sushi chef has to spot the best-quality fresh fish instantly." Nobu Matsuhisa
    Chefs don't make mistakes; they make new dishes." Elizabeth Briggs
    Chefs don't make mistakes; they make new dishes." Elizabeth Briggs
    “I always say that I don't believe I'm a chef. I try to be a storyteller." Jose Andres
    “I always say that I don't believe I'm a chef. I try to be a storyteller." Jose Andres
    "Chef' doesn't mean that you're the best cook, it simply means 'boss'." Tom Colicchio
    "Chef' doesn't mean that you're the best cook, it simply means 'boss'." Tom Colicchio
    "Never try to marry more than three flavours in one dish" Joel Robuchon
    "Never try to marry more than three flavours in one dish" Joel Robuchon
    "A lot of people call me a celebrity chef, but I don't think that I'm a celebrity. So I want to stay keeping just a chef. That's more comfortable." Masaharu Morimoto
    "A lot of people call me a celebrity chef, but I don't think that I'm a celebrity. So I want to stay keeping just a chef. That's more comfortable." Masaharu Morimoto
    "People want honest, flavourful food, not some show-off meal that takes days to prepare." Ted Allen
    "People want honest, flavourful food, not some show-off meal that takes days to prepare." Ted Allen
    "To me, there's no great chef without a great team." Daniel Boulud
    "To me, there's no great chef without a great team." Daniel Boulud
    "Get to know the Chef and you will start to enjoy dining out even more." John Walters
    "Get to know the Chef and you will start to enjoy dining out even more." John Walters
    "No great pastry chef has sweet teeth." Morley Safer
    "No great pastry chef has sweet teeth." Morley Safer
    "You don't call yourself the Demon Chef by being gentle. I am tough." Alvin Leung
    "You don't call yourself the Demon Chef by being gentle. I am tough." Alvin Leung
    "I like a bit of chocolate as much as the next person, but cheese is a complete world on its own. The sheer variety is staggering and there's always going to be a cheese to tickle your taste buds" Ainsley Harriott
    "I like a bit of chocolate as much as the next person, but cheese is a complete world on its own. The sheer variety is staggering and there's always going to be a cheese to tickle your taste buds" Ainsley Harriott
    "Chefs have a new opportunity - and perhaps even an obligation - to inform the public about what is good to eat, and why." Rene Redzepi
    "Chefs have a new opportunity - and perhaps even an obligation - to inform the public about what is good to eat, and why." Rene Redzepi
    “Hunger gives flavour to the food.” Amit Kalantri
    “Hunger gives flavour to the food.” Amit Kalantri
    "To me, my recipes are priceless." Colonel Sanders
    "To me, my recipes are priceless." Colonel Sanders
    "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
    "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
    "If you're a happy person around food, you can be a professional chef. It's fueled by passion." Ranveer Brar
    "If you're a happy person around food, you can be a professional chef. It's fuelled by passion." Ranveer Brar
    "When I was growing up, my grandmother cooked every day. She is the best chef ever." Baron Davis
    "When I was growing up, my grandmother cooked every day. She is the best chef ever." Baron Davis
    “Stay calm and be quick on fixing a problem, stopping a problem head on is vital.” Monica Galetti
    “Stay calm and be quick on fixing a problem, stopping a problem head on is vital.” Monica Galetti
    “Add a teaspoon of single cream, say, to a sauce just before serving to give it a touch of extra smoothness and depth.” Rick Stein
    “Add a teaspoon of single cream, say, to a sauce just before serving to give it a touch of extra smoothness and depth.” Rick Stein
    "A kitchen without a knife is not a kitchen." Masaharu Morimoto
    "A kitchen without a knife is not a kitchen." Masaharu Morimoto
    “A great chef is an artist that I truly respect.” Robert Stack
    “A great chef is an artist that I truly respect.” Robert Stack
    “I don’t like food that’s too carefully arranged; it makes me think that the chef is spending too much time arranging and not enough time cooking. If I wanted a picture I’d buy a painting.” Andy Rooney
    “I don’t like food that’s too carefully arranged; it makes me think that the chef is spending too much time arranging and not enough time cooking. If I wanted a picture I’d buy a painting.” Andy Rooney
    “A jazz musician can improvise based on his knowledge of music. He understands how things go together. For a chef, once you have that basis, that’s when cuisine is truly exciting.” Charlie Trotter
    “A jazz musician can improvise based on his knowledge of music. He understands how things go together. For a chef, once you have that basis, that’s when cuisine is truly exciting.” Charlie Trotter
    “One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.” Virginia Woolf
    “One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.” Virginia Woolf
    “I want to talk to the bullied kids of the world. Tell them to hang on, it will get better. Know that an ‘Iron Chef,’ actors, musicians, artists and all successful people have probably been bullied in their life. And the best part of your life is yet to come. Whatever it takes to live, do it!” Cat Cora
    “I want to talk to the bullied kids of the world. Tell them to hang on, it will get better. Know that an ‘Iron Chef,’ actors, musicians, artists and all successful people have probably been bullied in their life. And the best part of your life is yet to come. Whatever it takes to live, do it!” Cat Cora
    “Kitchens should be designed around what’s truly important-fun, food, and life.” Daniel Boulud
    “Kitchens should be designed around what’s truly important-fun, food, and life.” Daniel Boulud
    “I always had a fantasy of being a chef, because I like kitchen life.” Geoffrey Rush
    “I always had a fantasy of being a chef, because I like kitchen life.” Geoffrey Rush
    “I can’t stand people that do not take food seriously.” Oscar Wilde
    “I can’t stand people that do not take food seriously.” Oscar Wilde
    "I could put this on a flip-flop and it would taste good." Guy Fieri
    "I could put this on a flip-flop and it would taste good." Guy Fieri
    “I liked the energy of cooking, the action, the camaraderie. I often compare the kitchen to sports and compare the chef to a coach. There are a lot of similarities to it.” Todd English
    “I liked the energy of cooking, the action, the camaraderie. I often compare the kitchen to sports and compare the chef to a coach. There are a lot of similarities to it.” Todd English
    “I always had a fantasy of being a chef, because I like kitchen life.” Geoffrey Rush
    “I always had a fantasy of being a chef, because I like kitchen life.” Geoffrey Rush
    The best way to learn to cook is to do some serious eating.” Alexandra Guarnaschelli
    The best way to learn to cook is to do some serious eating.” Alexandra Guarnaschelli
    “Japanese chefs believe our soul goes into our knives once we start using them. You wouldn’t put your soul in a dishwasher!” Masaharu Morimoto
    “Japanese chefs believe our soul goes into our knives once we start using them. You wouldn’t put your soul in a dishwasher!” Masaharu Morimoto
    “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
    “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
    “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
    “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
    "Food is one part of the experience. And it has to be somewhere between 50 to 60 per cent of the dining experience. But the rest counts as well." Alain Ducasse
    "Food is one part of the experience. And it has to be somewhere between 50 to 60 per cent of the dining experience. But the rest counts as well." Alain Ducasse
    “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
    “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
    “I have a chef who makes sure that I’m getting the right amounts of carbs, proteins and fats throughout the day to keep me at my max performance level.” Barry Bonds
    “I have a chef who makes sure that I’m getting the right amounts of carbs, proteins and fats throughout the day to keep me at my max performance level.” Barry Bonds
    “One of the greatest pleasures of my life has been that I have never stopped learning about Good Cooking and Good Food” Edna Lewis , Chef quotes about food
    “One of the greatest pleasures of my life has been that I have never stopped learning about Good Cooking and Good Food” Edna Lewis , Chef quotes about food
    “I remember when I was in college, I used to watch Julia Child’s cooking show during dinner and joke with my roommates about becoming a TV chef.” Martin Yan
    “I remember when I was in college, I used to watch Julia Child’s cooking show during dinner and joke with my roommates about becoming a TV chef.” Martin Yan
    “The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.” Calvin Trillin
    “The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.” Calvin Trillin
    “In normal life, ‘simplicity’ is synonymous with ‘easy to do,’ but when a chef uses the word, it means ‘takes a lifetime to learn.'” Bill Buford
    “In normal life, ‘simplicity’ is synonymous with ‘easy to do,’ but when a chef uses the word, it means ‘takes a lifetime to learn.'” Bill Buford
    “Just like if you were brought up on a farm, you would most likely carry on your father’s business as a farmer; I was brought up in the kitchen and ended up becoming a chef.” Martin Yan
    “Just like if you were brought up on a farm, you would most likely carry on your father’s business as a farmer; I was brought up in the kitchen and ended up becoming a chef.” Martin Yan
    “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 , Chef quotes about cooking
    “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 , Chef quotes about cooking
    “Good food is a right, not a privilege. It brings children into a positive relationship with their health, community and environment.” Alice Water
    “Good food is a right, not a privilege. It brings children into a positive relationship with their health, community and environment.” Alice Water
    “I sometimes think the chef end of cooking is not the real end of cooking. Cooking is all about homes and gardens, it doesn’t happen in restaurants” Delia Smith
    “I sometimes think the chef end of cooking is not the real end of cooking. Cooking is all about homes and gardens, it doesn’t happen in restaurants” Delia Smith
    “Gordon Ramsay makes me laugh because he knows that I’m not a chef.” Nigella Lawson
    “Gordon Ramsay makes me laugh because he knows that I’m not a chef.” Nigella Lawson
    “Peace begins in the kitchens and pantries, gardens and backyards, where our food is grown and prepared. The energies of nature and the infinite universe are absorbed through the foods we eat and are transmuted into our thoughts and actions.” Michio Kushi
    “Peace begins in the kitchens and pantries, gardens and backyards, where our food is grown and prepared. The energies of nature and the infinite universe are absorbed through the foods we eat and are transmuted into our thoughts and actions.” Michio Kushi
    “News networks giving a greater voice to viewers because the social web is so popular are like a chef on the Titanic who, seeing the looming iceberg and fleeing customers, figures ice is the future and starts making snow cones.” Randall Munroe
    “News networks giving a greater voice to viewers because the social web is so popular are like a chef on the Titanic who, seeing the looming iceberg and fleeing customers, figures ice is the future and starts making snow cones.” Randall Munroe
    “Your pantry is your first line of defense against food-borne illness and things like high blood pressure and cholesterol.” Joe Bastianich
    “Your pantry is your first line of defense against food-borne illness and things like high blood pressure and cholesterol.” Joe Bastianich
    “I believe that food is one way to make people happy. I also believe that food can unite people from all walks of life and cultures. When we sit together and eat, we promote better understanding and harmony.Food brings love, peace and compassion to the table.” Chef Wan
    “I believe that food is one way to make people happy. I also believe that food can unite people from all walks of life and cultures. When we sit together and eat, we promote better understanding and harmony.Food brings love, peace and compassion to the table.” Chef Wan
    “All of the people who work in the kitchen with me go out into the forests and on to the beach. It’s a part of their job. If you work with me you will often be starting your day in the forest or on the shore because I believe foraging will shape you as a chef.” Rene Redzepi
    “All of the people who work in the kitchen with me go out into the forests and on to the beach. It’s a part of their job. If you work with me you will often be starting your day in the forest or on the shore because I believe foraging will shape you as a chef.” Rene Redzepi
    “A good apprentice cook must be as polite with the dishwasher as with the chef.” Fernand Point
    “A good apprentice cook must be as polite with the dishwasher as with the chef.” Fernand Point
    “I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food.” W. C. Fields
    “I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food.” W. C. Fields
    “There really is a camaraderie among chefs and a willingness to help out whenever we can.” Rocco DiSpirito
    “There really is a camaraderie among chefs and a willingness to help out whenever we can.” Rocco DiSpirito
    “My grandfather was a chef for a Baron in Sicily before he came to America. I grew up with him. I used to do my homework at one end of the kitchen table while he cooked at the other end.” Vincent Schiavelli
    “My grandfather was a chef for a Baron in Sicily before he came to America. I grew up with him. I used to do my homework at one end of the kitchen table while he cooked at the other end.” Vincent Schiavelli
    “First of all, I can’t really claim to be a great chef.” Martin Yan
    “First of all, I can’t really claim to be a great chef.” Martin Yan
    “When we no longer have good cooking in the world, we will have no literature, nor high and sharp intelligence, nor friendly gatherings, no social harmony.” Marie-Antoine Careme
    “When we no longer have good cooking in the world, we will have no literature, nor high and sharp intelligence, nor friendly gatherings, no social harmony.” Marie-Antoine Careme
    1. "Good food is very often, even most often, simple food." Anthony Bourdain
    2. "Design a menu which will allow you to actually be part of the dinner party atmosphere" Kerth Gumbs
    3. "Never try to marry more than three flavours in one dish" Joel Robuchon
    4. "I like a bit of chocolate as much as the next person, but cheese is a complete world on its own. The sheer variety is staggering and there's always going to be a cheese to tickle your taste buds" Ainsley Harriott
    5. "A kitchen without a knife is not a kitchen." Masaharu Morimoto
    6. "I could put this on a flip-flop and it would taste good." Guy Fieri
    7. "Food is one part of the experience. And it has to be somewhere between 50 to 60 per cent of the dining experience. But the rest counts as well." Alain Ducasse
    8. "The most important thing for me is to really buy the best ingredients." Wolfgang Puck
    9. "Always remember: If you’re alone in the kitchen and you drop the lamb, you can always just pick it up. Who’s going to know?." Julia Child
    10. "People who love to eat are always the best people." Julia Child
    11. "If you really want to make a friend, go to someone's house and eat with him... the people who give you their food give you their heart." Cesar Chavez
    12. "It's difficult to think anything but pleasant thoughts while eating a homegrown tomato." Lewis Grizzard
    13. "A recipe has no soul. You as the cook must bring soul to the recipe." Thomas Keller
    14. "There is not a good or a bad cuisine, just the one you like the best." Ferran Adria
    15. "You don’t have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces, just good food from fresh ingredients." Julia Chila
    16. "Cooking is at once child’s play and adult joy. And cooking done with care is an act of love." Craig Claiborne
    17. "Cooking requires confident guesswork and improvisation — experimentation and substitution, dealing with failure and uncertainty in a creative way." Paul Theroux
    18. "The ambition of every good cook must be to make something very good with the fewest possible ingredients." Urbain Dubois
    19. "We're working people, and that's what we like to do, work." Paul Prudhomme
    20. “I think preparing food and feeding people brings nourishment not only to our bodies but to our spirits.” Shauna Niequist
    21. “Feeding people is a way of loving them, in the same way that feeding ourselves is a way of honoring our own createdness and fragility.” Shauna Niequist
    22. "You don’t need to have a Rolls-Royce kitchen to make a great meal.” Tom Colicchio
    23. "I think the most wonderful thing in the world is another chef. I'm always excited about learning new things about food." Paul Prudhomme
    24. "I opened a restaurant that had nothing but California wines." Paul Prudhomme
    25. "...who likes cooking and for whom sharing food is a form of expression." Maya Angelou
    26. "A sushi chef has to spot the best-quality fresh fish instantly." Nobu Matsuhisa
    27. Chefs don't make mistakes; they make new dishes." Elizabeth Briggs
    28. “I always say that I don't believe I'm a chef. I try to be a storyteller." Jose Andres
    29. "Chef' doesn't mean that you're the best cook, it simply means 'boss'." Tom Colicchio
    30. "Chefs are nutters. They're all self-obsessed, delicate, dainty, insecure little souls, and absolute psychopaths. Every last one of them." Gordon Ramsay
    31. "A lot of people call me a celebrity chef, but I don't think that I'm a celebrity. So I want to stay keeping just a chef. That's more comfortable." Masaharu Morimoto
    32. "People want honest, flavourful food, not some show-off meal that takes days to prepare." Ted Allen
    33. "To me, there's no great chef without a great team." Daniel Boulud
    34. "There's a bond among a kitchen staff, I think. You spend more time with your chef in the kitchen than you do with your own family." Gordon Ramsay
    35. "If you want to become a great chef, you have to work with great chefs. And that's exactly what I did." Gordon Ramsay
    36. "I am a chef who happens to appear on the telly, that's it." Gordon Ramsay
    37. "Get to know the Chef and you will start to enjoy dining out even more." John Walters
    38. "No great pastry chef has sweet teeth." Morley Safer
    39. "You don't call yourself the Demon Chef by being gentle. I am tough." Alvin Leung
    40. "Chefs have a new opportunity - and perhaps even an obligation - to inform the public about what is good to eat, and why." Rene Redzepi
    41. “Hunger gives flavour to the food.” Amit Kalantri
    42. "To me, my recipes are priceless." Colonel Sanders
    43. "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
    44. "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
    45. "If you're a happy person around food, you can be a professional chef. It's fueled by passion." Ranveer Brar
    46. "Chefs. You either loved them or tolerated them, but either way you had to learn to live with them.” Nina Harrington
    47. "When I was growing up, my grandmother cooked every day. She is the best chef ever." Baron Davis
    48. “Stay calm and be quick on fixing a problem, stopping a problem head on is vital.” Monica Galetti
    49. “Add a teaspoon of single cream, say, to a sauce just before serving to give it a touch of extra smoothness and depth.” Rick Stein
    50. “An ounce of sauce covers a multitude of sins.” Anthony Bourdain
    51. “Get your shit together!” Gordon Ramsay
    52. “A great chef is an artist that I truly respect.” Robert Stack
    53. “I don’t like food that’s too carefully arranged; it makes me think that the chef is spending too much time arranging and not enough time cooking. If I wanted a picture I’d buy a painting.” Andy Rooney
    54. “A jazz musician can improvise based on his knowledge of music. He understands how things go together. For a chef, once you have that basis, that’s when cuisine is truly exciting.” Charlie Trotter
    55. “One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.” Virginia Woolf
    56. “I want to talk to the bullied kids of the world. Tell them to hang on, it will get better. Know that an ‘Iron Chef,’ actors, musicians, artists and all successful people have probably been bullied in their life. And the best part of your life is yet to come. Whatever it takes to live, do it!” Cat Cora
    57. “Kitchens should be designed around what’s truly important-fun, food, and life.” Daniel Boulud
    58. “I always had a fantasy of being a chef, because I like kitchen life.” Geoffrey Rush
    59. “Let’s face it: if you and I have the same capabilities, the same energy, the same staff, if the only thing that’s different between you and me is the products we can get, and I can get a better product than you, I’m going to be a better chef.” Thomas Keller
    60. “I can’t stand people that do not take food seriously.”Oscar Wilde
    61. “I liked the energy of cooking, the action, the camaraderie. I often compare the kitchen to sports and compare the chef to a coach. There are a lot of similarities to it.” Todd English
    62. The best way to learn to cook is to do some serious eating.” Alexandra Guarnaschelli
    63. “People who love to eat are always the best people.” Julia Child
    64. “Japanese chefs believe our soul goes into our knives once we start using them. You wouldn’t put your soul in a dishwasher!” Masaharu Morimoto
    65. “The only real stumbling block is fear of failure. In cooking you’ve got to have a what-the-hell attitude.”Julia Child
    66. “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
    67. “The only time to eat diet food is while you’re waiting for the steak to cook.” Julia Child
      “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
    68. “I think every chef, not just in America, but across the world, has a double-edged sword – two jackets, one that’s driven, a self-confessed perfectionist, thoroughbred, hate incompetence and switch off the stove, take off the jacket and become a family man.” Gordon Ramsay
    69. “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
    70. “I have a chef who makes sure that I’m getting the right amounts of carbs, proteins and fats throughout the day to keep me at my max performance level.” Barry Bonds
    71. “One of the greatest pleasures of my life has been that I have never stopped learning about Good Cooking and Good Food” Edna Lewis , Chef quotes about food
    72. “I remember when I was in college, I used to watch Julia Child’s cooking show during dinner and joke with my roommates about becoming a TV chef.” Martin Yan
    73. “I think the most wonderful thing in the world is another chef. I’m always excited about learning new things about food.” Paul Prudhomme
    74. “The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.” Calvin Trillin
    75. “In normal life, ‘simplicity’ is synonymous with ‘easy to do,’ but when a chef uses the word, it means ‘takes a lifetime to learn.'” Bill Buford
    76. “A good chef has to be a manager, a businessman and a great cook. To marry all three together is sometimes difficult.” Wolfgang Puck
    77. “You’re getting to know who the great chefs are through their books.” Thomas Keller
    78. “Just like if you were brought up on a farm, you would most likely carry on your father’s business as a farmer; I was brought up in the kitchen and ended up becoming a chef.” Martin Yan
    79. “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 , Chef quotes about cooking
    80. “Good food is a right, not a privilege. It brings children into a positive relationship with their health, community and environment.” Alice Water
    81. “I sometimes think the chef end of cooking is not the real end of cooking. Cooking is all about homes and gardens, it doesn’t happen in restaurants” Delia Smith
    82. “Gordon Ramsay makes me laugh because he knows that I’m not a chef.” Nigella Lawson
    83. “Is it a good hot dog? That’s all I want to know … I don’t think the personal health and purity of my colon is that important compared to pleasure. As a chef, I’m not your dietitian or your ethicist. I’m in the pleasure business …. My responsibility is to give you the most delicious tomato that I can afford, given the circumstances, and maybe increase the likelihood that you get laid after dinner.” Anthony Bourdain
    84. “If you want to become a great chef, you have to work with great chefs. And that’s exactly what I did.” Gordon Ramsay
    85. “I believe that food is one way to make people happy. I also believe that food can unite people from all walks of life and cultures. When we sit together and eat, we promote better understanding and harmony.Food brings love, peace and compassion to the table.” Chef Wan
    86. “News networks giving a greater voice to viewers because the social web is so popular are like a chef on the Titanic who, seeing the looming iceberg and fleeing customers, figures ice is the future and starts making snow cones.” Randall Munroe
    87. “Peace begins in the kitchens and pantries, gardens and backyards, where our food is grown and prepared. The energies of nature and the infinite universe are absorbed through the foods we eat and are transmuted into our thoughts and actions.” Michio Kushi
    88. “In any restaurant of this caliber, the chefs are in the same position, building relationships.” Thomas Keller
    89. “Your pantry is your first line of defense against food-borne illness and things like high blood pressure and cholesterol.” Joe Bastianich
    90. “A chef is a mixture maybe of artistry and craft. You have to learn the craft really to get there.” Wolfgang Puck
    91. “Chefs don’t do ponytails and we shouldn’t do them because I guarantee that whenever there’s a discovery of hair in the food, it’s guaranteed it’s from the chef’s ponytail.” Gordon Ramsay
    92. “I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food.” W. C. Fields
    93. “A good apprentice cook must be as polite with the dishwasher as with the chef.” Fernand Point
    94. “All of the people who work in the kitchen with me go out into the forests and on to the beach. It’s a part of their job. If you work with me you will often be starting your day in the forest or on the shore because I believe foraging will shape you as a chef.” Rene Redzepi
    95. “I was 32 when I started cooking; up until then, I just ate.” Julia Child
    96. “First of all, I can’t really claim to be a great chef.” Martin Yan
    97. “My grandfather was a chef for a Baron in Sicily before he came to America. I grew up with him. I used to do my homework at one end of the kitchen table while he cooked at the other end.” Vincent Schiavelli
    98. “You never forget a beautiful thing that you have made. Even after you eat it, it stays with you – always.” Julia Child
    99. “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
    100. “When we no longer have good cooking in the world, we will have no literature, nor high and sharp intelligence, nor friendly gatherings, no social harmony.” Marie-Antoine Careme
    101. “There really is a camaraderie among chefs and a willingness to help out whenever we can.” Rocco DiSpirito

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    1. Katie says

      July 28, 2022 at 4:15 am

      Feeling inspired! These were so much fun to read through!

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      • Nancy says

        August 08, 2022 at 1:20 pm

        Did you have a favourite quote? Mine was Ramsay's "get your shit together" ;P

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    2. Zen says

      July 26, 2022 at 6:19 pm

      This is such a cute idea! Thanks for sharing these quotes to inspire us

      Reply
    3. Choclette says

      July 26, 2022 at 2:37 am

      What a fabulous collection of quotes. I know where to come to now when I'm looking for a chef quote. Gordon Ramsey's "get your shit together' made me laugh out loud.

      Reply
      • Nancy says

        July 26, 2022 at 10:42 am

        we all can use a kick in the butt sometimes to get motivated!

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    4. Stef says

      July 25, 2022 at 10:41 am

      These are great!!! Love this.

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      • Nancy says

        July 25, 2022 at 11:13 am

        Thanks Stef!

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    5. Katie says

      July 25, 2022 at 4:29 am

      I am so inspired! There are so many beauties quotes and some funny ones too lol! Loved this!

      Reply
    6. Bianca says

      July 24, 2022 at 8:24 am

      Love this list of chef quotes! Super inspiring!

      Reply
    7. Marina says

      July 24, 2022 at 5:05 am

      Lovely chef quotes Nancy. This one is my favorite: ˝A recipe has no soul. You as the cook must bring soul to the recipe˝ - so true!

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    8. Andrea says

      July 23, 2022 at 8:57 pm

      such great quotes to keep you inspired! love it!

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