Quotes by Chefs

When I was four and my sister six, we got a Susie Homemaker oven for our birthdays. Sherry Yard

Sister Birthdays Our Oven Got Six Homemaker Four

I'd rather bake 14 times a day than bake one time a day and have all the bakers go home, and then everything's 14 hours old by the time anyone eats it. No. Sherry Yard

Time Day Home Old Everything One Time Eats Rather Bake Hours Go Go Home Times Than Anyone Then By The Time

If someone wants to order a cake, I might say, 'OK, when do you want to eat it? What time are your guests arriving? 6 P.M.? So you might be done with dinner around 8:30? Fine, you can pick up the cake at 4. Any earlier than that, it won't be good, it won't be fresh.' Sherry Yard

Time Good You Cake Dinner Guests Say OK Fine Eat Someone Pick Around Fresh Arriving Up Than Any Done Order Want Wants Might Your Earlier

Grandma played a taste test game with my sister and me when I was 3 years old. She would blindfold us and have us guess what was on the spoon: the first flavors I got were strawberry - then coffee! Sherry Yard

I'm big on breakfast. Sherry Yard

Big Breakfast

While they're still warm, I like to sandwich a chocolate chip cookie with raspberry stracchiatella gelato. Sherry Yard

Like Still While Chip Warm Chocolate Sandwich Cookie

I can't sit still. Sherry Yard

Sit Still

Any opportunity I get to melt butter, I continue on to the 'noisette' stage. Sherry Yard

Opportunity Stage Melt Continue Get Any Butter

Caramel gives chocolate a run for its money. Sherry Yard

Money Run Gives Chocolate

The Governors Ball is like a big birthday party, and all these stars are like excited kids running around - 'Oooo, look at my pretty new dress!' And what's the best, most fun surprise at a birthday party? When the cake comes out! Sherry Yard

The appetite starts with the eye. Sherry Yard

Starts Eye Appetite

Promise less, deliver more. Sherry Yard

Promise More Deliver Less

Desserts are all about form and function, about warm and hot and cold. I want every component to hit your palate on different levels at different times. Sherry Yard

Every Cold Desserts Component About Hot Times Hit Different Want Form Warm Different Levels Your Function Different Times Palate Levels

I shop at the farmers' market twice a week. Sherry Yard

Market Week Shop Farmers Twice Twice A Week

The composition of my desserts is taken care of by the farmers' market. Sherry Yard

Care Market Desserts Composition Taken Farmers

The market is my church; it's my family. Sherry Yard

Family Church Market

When I want to really eat great, I eat at home when my wife cooks. Sirio Maccioni

Home Great Wife Eat Want Really Cooks

I lived in Cuba - I was there for one year in the 1950s. We built the famous nightclub, which is still there, Tropicana, and a restaurant, Montecatini, that I opened is still there. I was there when the U.S. ambassador said everyone must leave because Castro was arriving the next morning. Sirio Maccioni

All Italians speak Spanish without studying. Sirio Maccioni

Speak Studying Without Italians Spanish

Our pasta primavera was born when I promised fresh pasta with tomatoes and basil to critic Craig Claiborne, but we had no tomatoes. Sirio Maccioni

Our Critic Promised Born Had Fresh Pasta Craig Tomatoes

Le Cirque is strictly New York people. New York people don't eat at home; New York people go out. Sirio Maccioni

Home People Strictly Out Eat New Go York New York

It's one thing you aspire to: someday, you'll be able to write a book. Thomas Keller

You Book One Thing Able Someday Write Aspire Thing