Chef Quotes

I've been nominated for 12 Emmys, and we won - for 'Top Chef' - the only time I didn't go.

Every chef should have an understanding of pastries or desserts.

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.

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.

I'm a chef, I'm a cook, I was created by this industry, and I like to think I'm giving back. But I'm not giving back because I can make a scallop souffle, I'm giving back because I can make compost.

My family truly believes they are better cooks than I am. They see me as Giada, not as a celebrity chef. To them I'm just me - their granddaughter, niece, etc., and they're older and wiser. I like that because it keeps you grounded.

First need in the reform of hospital management? That's easy! The death of all dietitians, and the resurrection of a French chef.

I probably use my chef's knives more than any other tool in the kitchen. I'm not married to a particular brand, because they all work, they all have sharp blades.

The better the ingredients, the more farmers I can buy from, the closer I feel to the food I want to make that represents what I care about as a chef.

You wouldn't know it but I'm no good at... cooking. My chef does that.

I had no desire to be a chef, but I had a desire to be someone who was heard.

If you've attended the Cordon Bleu, you would know that no woman is supposed to be a chef - only men.

My grandmother was a chef, and she taught me to cook. One day I want a restaurant, a small Italian grill. That's my aspiration.

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.

If I want popularity, I go to a chef's convention.

You know, I never really thought of myself as a 'celebrity.' One of the titles that I like least is 'celebrity chef.'

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.

A chef is a mixture maybe of artistry and craft. You have to learn the craft really to get there.

You don't become a chef to become famous.

I always had a fantasy of being a chef, because I like kitchen life.

I did all the Chef Boyardee commercials, in America, when I was young.

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.

If I weren't a matchmaker, I'd be a chef.

I'm obsessed with 'Top Chef'.

If I didn't ever model? I would be back in Kansas. I would probably end up being a pastry chef. My grandma taught me how to make a pie.