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I was always a good cook from my mum showing me when I was a young lad, but hiring a chef helped me to understand food better.
Ross Barkley
Good
Food
Me
Better
Young
Chef
Understand
Always
Hiring
Lad
Cook
Helped
Good Cook
Showing
Mum
I'm a little old-school in that I think there's some value in the classics and the steps of achieving a certain profession. If we start slanging the word 'chef' on anybody and everybody who cooks, it takes away a lot.
Roy Choi
Word
Value
Think
Everybody
Some
Classics
Takes
Steps
Chef
Lot
Anybody
Achieving
Little
Certain
Who
Cooks
Profession
Away
Start
I'm in a place where I feel comfortable not being a chef anymore. That's taboo in our industry. 'Chef' is supposed to be the ultimate end of the road.
Roy Choi
Our
Taboo
Road
Feel
Supposed
Industry
Comfortable
Chef
Ultimate
Ultimate End
End
Being
Where
Anymore
Place
Chefs have always been leaders, but now, because of social media and the evolution of the chef identity, we have a voice that expands beyond cooking.
Roy Choi
Cooking
Social Media
Evolution
Voice
Leaders
Beyond
Identity
Because
Chef
Chefs
Always
Been
Social
Media
Now
I became a vegetarian in 1995. I had some fried chicken, and my teeth hit the bone. My mind said, 'Dead bird, dead bird.' It didn't feel right, so I stopped. I kept eating fish until one day, in 1997, the chef brought my ginger-fried snapper with the head still on it.
Rza
Day
Bird
Mind
Bone
Teeth
One Day
Some
Eating
Brought
Had
Vegetarian
Head
Feel
Until
Dead
Became
Chef
Said
Still
Fish
Fried
Fried Chicken
Chicken
Hit
Stopped
Right
Kept
I have a chef who cooks for me. I like to eat healthy.
Sadio Mane
Me
Healthy
Eat
Like
Chef
Who
Cooks
The restaurant chefs in Spain are breaking ground, but in terms of the everyday cooking in Spain I still hear people coming back and saying they were disappointed. I think it's because they're expecting the chef stuff.
Sally Schneider
Saying
Cooking
People
Think
Everyday
Back
Restaurant
Disappointed
Stuff
Terms
Because
Chef
Chefs
Still
Coming
Were
Hear
Hear People
Expecting
Breaking
Spain
Ground
I grew up in San Diego with immigrant parents, before the food blogs, before this kind of celebrity chef culture we know now.
Samin Nosrat
Food
Culture
Parents
Before
Immigrant
Kind
Know
Chef
Blogs
Up
Celebrity
Diego
Grew
San
San Diego
Now
Nobody makes bouillabaisse from scratch. It's all a bunch of malarkey. Even the restaurants buy a commercial-grade product. I had a very famous chef tell me that.
Sandra Lee
Buy
Me
Tell
Restaurants
Had
Nobody
Chef
Makes
Very
Bunch
Scratch
Famous
Product
Even
Most people will pay tribute to Anthony Bourdain as a chef, as the author of 'Kitchen Confidential,' and as the host of several food and travel shows - most recently, 'Parts Unknown' on CNN.
Sarah Weinman
Food
Travel
People
Will
Pay
Unknown
Several
Tribute
Kitchen
Host
Most
Parts
Chef
Author
Confidential
Pay Tribute
Shows
Recently
I have a chef come in every day and prepare my meals. There is no way I could do the stunt work, stay up as late as I have to, or be outside in the heat if I'm eating poorly. That means I can't eat craft services!
Shalita Grant
Work
Day
Every Day
Every
Late
Way
Stay
Eat
Eating
Could
Outside
Come
Stunt
Chef
Up
Craft
Heat
Meals
Poorly
Means
Prepare
Services
Being a chef would be too much hard work.
Sophie Ellis-Bextor
Work
Hard Work
Too Much
Too
Would
Would-Be
Chef
Being
Much
Hard
I'd have worked with an orchestra, been a chef, or a zoo keeper.
Sue Perkins
Chef
Been
Orchestra
Worked
Keeper
Zoo
I was actually going to be a chef before I got sidetracked. I used to make deserts for restaurants as a young teenage mother to make money.
Suzanne Somers
Money
Mother
Before
Young
Teenage
Sidetracked
Restaurants
Make
Chef
Got
Going
Used
Deserts
Actually
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
Myself
Me
CIA
People
World
Important
Other
Out
Never
Like
Chef
Chefs
Understand
Culinary
Very
Trained
Being
Held
Who
Professionals
Actual
My love for cooking began when I was young. Because my parents were in the army, they were both really busy. A lot of times I'd have to cook for the family; I'd rotate with my siblings. It started out as a chore, but as I got older, my mom started to see that I was really good at it. I became her sous chef.
Tia Mowry
Love
Good
Mom
Family
Army
Cooking
Parents
Young
Older
Busy
Out
See
Both
Became
Because
Chef
Got
Were
Lot
Began
Times
Really
Cook
Rotate
Chore
Her
Started
Sibling
The truth is that since the first book, I have wanted to emulate Benjamin Franklin and put together a healthy, wealthy and wise trilogy and so healthy was 'The 4-Hour Body,' wealthy was 'The 4-Hour Workweek' and then wise is 'The 4-Hour Chef.'
Tim Ferriss
Truth
Wise
Together
Truth Is
Book
First
Healthy
Benjamin Franklin
Franklin
Wealthy
Trilogy
Put
Since
Chef
Emulate
Wanted
Then
Body
I liked the energy of cooking, the action, the camaraderie. I often compare the kitchen to sports and compare the chef to a coach. There are a lot of similarities to it.
Todd English
Sports
Cooking
Energy
Action
Similarities
Kitchen
Liked
Chef
Camaraderie
Lot
Often
Coach
Compare
Every chef should have an understanding of pastries or desserts.
Tom Colicchio
Understanding
Every
Desserts
Chef
Should
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.
Tom Colicchio
You
Running
Kitchen
Call
Chef
Chefs
Cook
Cooks
You hit a certain age and - especially because of TV - the young cooks coming up say, 'You're a sellout, because you're doing something other than what you should be doing.' 'Top Chef' is a double-edged sword for me: There's a whole group of people who will not come to the restaurants because they assume I'm not in them anymore, all I do is TV.
Tom Colicchio
Me
You
Age
People
Will
Young
Group
Assume
Other
Top
Top Chef
Say
TV
Restaurants
Something
Come
Because
Chef
Coming
Doing
Up
Sellout
Hit
Than
Anymore
Them
Double-Edged
Double-Edged Sword
Certain
Should
Certain Age
Who
Cooks
Whole
Sword
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
Me
Experience
First
Pot
Kitchen
Know
First Thing
Chef
Yelled
Hit
Personal
Personal Experience
The First Thing
Want
Them
Thing
Sometimes these challenges naturally select more chefs that can think on their feet very quickly. There are chefs I know who won't put things on the menu unless they've tried it four or five times. So you just naturally select a certain kind of chef, people who maybe don't win a bunch of challenges but they hang around.
Tom Colicchio
You
Challenges
People
Win
Sometimes
Think
Unless
Kind
Tried
More
Menu
Select
Put
Feet
Know
Around
Chef
Chefs
Very
Five
Quickly
Bunch
Times
Hang
Maybe
Just
Certain
Naturally
Who
Things
Four
Support a small chef. Not these big chains... but support the people who are out there trying to do things right and working hard to do that.
Tom Douglas
People
Big
Out
Small
Support
Chef
Trying
Working
Working Hard
Hard
Who
Chains
Right
Things
Every chef has his treats. By that, I mean bits and pieces from things you're working on - crusty little cake trimmings, ends from a brisket, collars from a salmon, scraps. But they're snacks to me, and I eat them right off the cutting board - maybe too much.
Tom Douglas
Me
You
Cake
Too Much
Every
Too
Bits
Bits And Pieces
Collars
Eat
Pieces
Chef
Snacks
His
Off
Salmon
Scraps
Maybe
Ends
Board
Little
Mean
Them
Cutting
Much
Working
Right
Things
Treats
When I wrote my cookbook, 'I Love Crab Cakes,' I asked some of my best chef buddies to contribute recipes.
Tom Douglas
Love
Best
Recipes
Some
Buddies
Cakes
Wrote
Chef
Crab
Contribute
Asked
Cookbook
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