2225 quotes by chefs for you to enjoy

Kogi changed what a generation eats, introducing people to fermentation and different vegetables and flavors. Roy Choi

Generation People Vegetables Changed Introducing Eats Different Flavors

I know what it's like to be a teenager in Orange County. I know what it's like to be a kid in L.A. I know what it's like to not have any money and have your lights turned off. I know what it's like to live in a house with five rooms. Roy Choi

Money Live Teenager Kid Lights Like Know County House Off Five Orange Orange County Any Rooms Turned Your

People think that being Korean is all one thing. Roy Choi

People Think One Thing Korean Being Thing

All Korean food is not just one thing. Roy Choi

Food One Thing Korean Just Just One Just One Thing Thing

I have a tendency to trail off in conversations. I don't look up at people sometimes when I talk or cook, and those are all pretty bad no-no's being in front of the camera. Roy Choi

People Sometimes Those Bad Pretty Tendency Look Talk Camera Off Trail Up Front Being Conversations Cook

A lot of my friend's mothers and parents worked at Paramount Studios, so I would always go. I met the Fonz when I was really young, like four or five years old. I was always around people in entertainment all the time throughout my whole life. Roy Choi

Life Time Entertainment People Old Parents Met Young Would Paramount Throughout Studios Like Around Always Mothers Go Years Lot Friend Five Worked Really Whole Four

Being a cook, there's always pressure - not for your ego but for people to love your food. Roy Choi

Love Food People Ego Pressure Always Being To Love Cook Your

You have to believe in something, and you have to believe in the things that you feel and find value in those things, and not be swayed all the time. Maybe you're gonna get swayed 90% of the time, to keep those things submerged, but you can't distrust yourself 100% of the time. Roy Choi

Time You Yourself Value Believe Those Find Distrust Something Feel Submerged Get Maybe Swayed Gonna Keep Things

I go by 'Papi' on the streets. Roy Choi

Go Streets

I dream like a shaman. Roy Choi

Dream Like

I don't know if I'll ever be as good as I was when I started Kogi, but I strive for that. Roy Choi

Good Strive Know Ever Started

I've been through a lot of things in my life. Roy Choi

Life My Life Through Been Lot Things

I don't really care about job security. Roy Choi

Care Job Job Security Security About Really

My restaurants are about community and about sharing and about warmth. Roy Choi

Community Restaurants About Sharing Warmth

If you look at my life, I wasn't just poor; I was rich and poor. Roy Choi

Life You My Life Rich Look Just Poor

I didn't just grow up lowriding: I grew up lowriding and also in mansions in Orange County. Roy Choi

County Also Up Orange Orange County Just Grew Mansions Grow Grow Up

I grew up around so many different people in so many different neighborhoods, but the Latino heritage, the neighborhoods, and people have always been a part of my life, ever since I was a kid. Roy Choi

Life People My Life Heritage Kid Latino Neighborhoods Part Since Around Always Been Up Different Grew Different People Many Ever

The Korean taco was a phenomenon... It just came out of us. We didn't really think about it. Roy Choi

Think Out About Taco Korean Came Just Us Really Phenomenon

If we make it national policy that we will support small farmers the way we support agribusiness, we'll suddenly see it change in terms of the cost of organic food. Ruth Reichl

Food Change Will National Organic Way See Cost Small Support Terms Make Policy National Policy Organic Food Farmers Suddenly

I like to work. I believe that work helps us find our self worth. Ruth Reichl

Work Worth Believe Our Find Self Like Self-Worth Us Helps

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