Quotes by Chefs

Men are more mechanical when we cook. Women are more attached. They cook it with feelings. From personal experience. The feeling a female chef puts in the food places her way ahead of men chefs. Ranveer Brar

Essentially, for me, the whole point of being a chef is to have your own restaurant. Ranveer Brar

Me Own Restaurant Point Chef Essentially Being Your Whole

Food should flirt with the palette. If the food doesn't flirt with your palette, then it's not fun enough. Ranveer Brar

Food Enough Then Should Your Fun Flirt Palette

Being a Punjabi, it is very hard to say this, but Punjabi food is very overrated. Ranveer Brar

Food Say Overrated Very Being Hard

My learning from my travels is that taste is objective. If a thing is tasty, it's universally tasty. Or, just not. Ranveer Brar

Learning Objective Taste Tasty Just Travels Thing Universally

You have to respect the culture you are cooking in, yes, but you have to respect the palate you are cooking for, too, and you have to adjust to that palate. Ranveer Brar

You Respect Culture Cooking Too Adjust Yes Palate

I think that in our part of the world, Scandinavia, we are one of the pioneers of showing that gastronomy can be something - high gastronomy can be something very, very present and doesn't have to involve, you know, what is perceived as the normal luxury items that belong in a high gastronomy restaurant. Rene Redzepi

You World Luxury Think Our High Restaurant Perceived Something Part Involve Know Normal Items Very Pioneers Showing Present Belong

I would love to eat a really great burger, but it doesn't exist in our part of the world. Rene Redzepi

Love Great World Burger Our Would Eat Part Exist Really

I only have the restaurant. If I do other things, it's only to do with the restaurant. Rene Redzepi

Other Restaurant Only Things

The restaurant industry is brutal. Rene Redzepi

Restaurant Brutal Industry

A gastronomical supermeal didn't necessarily have to involve the things I had brought from other top kitchens. Rene Redzepi

Other Top Brought Kitchens Had Involve Things Necessarily

In my home I tend to eat a very simple version of what we cook at the restaurant, which is vegetable-oriented, with a little bit of fish and very little meat. For instance, a dish in my home could be steamed spinach with spruce, where I take a spruce branch and put it in the pot and that infuses into the spinach. Rene Redzepi

Close interaction with farmers and scientists can expose the chef to new flavours that can be used to delight diners. Rene Redzepi

Delight New Chef Scientists Close Interaction Used Farmers Expose

When I turned 15, I left school having failed to make the minimum grade. With little direction I enlisted at the local culinary school. Here the academic demands were less rigorous. Rene Redzepi

I did a show a long, long time ago called 'Cooking Mexican'. It was a studio show as opposed to on-location like the one I do now. Before my first show, I was a cooking instructor, and I did a whole lot of classes for home cooks about Mexican food. Rick Bayless

I'm meticulous about tasting everything at the restaurant, so I taste all the preparations before lunch and dinner. That means tasting around 50 dishes twice. There are times when I think I can't taste another thing. Rick Bayless

Dinner Before Lunch Think Everything Restaurant About Another Around Meticulous Times Taste Tasting Dishes Means Preparations Twice Thing

I cook all the time, and I cook all different kinds of things, but never Mexican at home. That's my work. Rick Bayless

Work Time Home Different Kinds Kinds Never Mexican Different Cook Things

I usually get up around 6 A.M. It takes me a while to get going. In our household, I am the first one up. I usually make coffee for myself, draw a bath and have a big soak. I read in the bath. Rick Bayless

Every meal should end with something sweet. Maybe it's jelly on toast at breakfast, or a small piece of chocolate at dinner - but it always helps my brain bring a close to the meal. Robert Irvine

When I'm on the road, I'll break my exercise into a cardio session and a weights session. Robert Irvine

Fitness Road Weights Exercise Break Cardio Session