As a chef, I always have in mind how to properly feed the public, but at times it’s easy to forget that some people have trouble even getting any food, much less adequate nutrition. – Marcus Samuelsson
I do have a chef, but I still go out. Sometimes I can still blend in, and sometimes I get a little bombarded. It’s the best of both worlds. – Kyrie Irving
I wanted to write a food book, but I’m not a chef or an expert on culinary matters, to put it mildly. – Kate Christensen
It is cool to see that the fashion world has really taken to ‘Instagram,’ but, again, it is one of the many examples of many communities, whether you are a chef, a skateboarder, a surfer, a skier. – Kevin Systrom
I get so tickled when that pilot happens to be an African American because I rarely see that. The same is true when I go to find restaurants. I mean, most places I go, I kind of have some idea who the chef is, which is why I want to go. – Marcus Samuelsson
Being an Ethiopian-born, Swedish-raised chef, there’s nothing traditional about my Thanksgiving spread. – Marcus Samuelsson
I studied to be a chef as a side thing, a little hobby that I enjoyed doing, but I ended up falling madly in love with the food and the lifestyle. – Kelis
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
During the course of filming ‘Top Chef,’ I gain 15 lbs., so I’m used to needing two dress sizes. – Padma Lakshmi
Mostly I enjoy the restaurants (my husband is a chef), though I wish we had a wider diversity of ethnic food. – Poppy Z. Brite
I had turned down other head chef jobs. I didn’t want to take over someone else’s cuisine. I wanted to start from scratch. – Rene Redzepi
A friend of mine is a chef in Bali, and another friend said, ‘God, he’s like Brad Pitt,’ and I said, ‘Yeah, I think he’s more like arm Pitt,’ ’cause, you know, ‘Brad Pitt’ would be a bit of an overstatement. – Owain Yeoman
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
There are divisions between a culinary chef and a dessert chef, also called a pastry chef. There are specializations within the pastry chef field. Some pastry chefs specialize in baking breads, while others are master cake designers. Each field requires an exceptional level of creativity and attention to detail. – Ron Ben-Israel
Close interaction with farmers and scientists can expose the chef to new flavours that can be used to delight diners. – Rene Redzepi
I’ve been a model for 15 years, and I’ve been on ‘Top Chef’ for eight seasons, and before that I had other cooking shows, so I’ve learned a thing or two about how to camouflage certain areas and how to draw the eye to a preferable area of the body. – Padma Lakshmi
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
When I look at someone’s face, there’s something in my brain that just clicks – that breaks down their face into the elements that go into a caricature. It might be like the way a chef tastes a dish and can break down into elements what went into it. – Steve Breen
It’s very important to me that people who are actual chefs and other professionals in the culinary world, understand that I’m not, and have never held myself out as being, like a CIA trained chef. – Ted Allen
If I could be something other than an actor, I’d be a chef; I’ve got a big interest in food. I’m a proper fan boy. – Will Poulter
It’s very important in a restaurant to really do the right hiring because there’s no restaurant that you have one cook and one chef and nobody else in the kitchen. Generally you have five, ten, 15 people with you. So that’s really important is to train them right, but first you have to hire the right people. – Wolfgang Puck
It wasn’t the traditional cooking most people do. For me, as a young chef, Thanksgiving meant going to work in the kitchen at places like Gotham, JoJo and Jean-Georges. – Wylie Dufresne
I made a point of eating so fast I never kept the other people waiting who generally ordered only chef’s salad and grapefruit juice because they were trying to reduce. Almost everybody I met in New York was trying to reduce. – Sylvia Plath
My chefs don’t apply for ‘Top Chef’. They all know that there is no way. At the end of the process I look at the resumes of the last 25 options just to make sure they’ve never worked for me before. – Tom Colicchio
I know from personal experience, if a chef yelled at me in a kitchen, the first thing I’d want to do is hit them with a pot. – Tom Colicchio
