Top 40 Quotes & Sayings by Anne Burrell

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American chef Anne Burrell.

Last updated on September 17, 2024.

Anne W. Burrell is an American chef, television personality, and former instructor at the Institute of Culinary Education. She is the host of the Food Network show Secrets of a Restaurant Chef and co-host of Worst Cooks in America. She was also one of the Iron Chefs, Mario Batali's sous chefs in the Iron Chef America series and appears on other programs on the network such as The Best Thing I Ever Ate. She was a contestant on the fourth season of The Food Network competition show, The Next Iron Chef Super Chefs being eliminated in episode 6. She was also a contestant on the first season of Chopped All-Stars Tournament, winning the "Food Network Personalities" preliminary round to advance to the final round, where she placed second runner up to Nate Appleman (winner) and Aarón Sanchez. In 2015, Burrell won the fourth installment of the Chopped All-Stars tournament winning $75,000 for the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation. She also hosted the series Chef Wanted with Anne Burrell in 2012–2013.

American - Chef | Born: September 21, 1969

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I always use my 'Holy Trinity' which is salt, olive oil and bacon. My motto is, 'bacon always makes it better.' I try to use bacon and pork products whenever it can.

Anne Burrell

Always in my house, I have almonds, hummus, Triscuits, and cheddar cheese. It takes me back to childhood. My go-to meal would probably be pasta.

Anne Burrell

I love meeting new people.

Anne Burrell

I love the simplicity, the ingredients, the culture, the history and the seasonality of Italian cuisine. In Italy people do not travel. They cook the way grandma did, using fresh ingredients and what is available in season.

Anne Burrell

Definitely, in any teaching situation, there are the clueless students; then there are the ones who get it a little quicker.

Anne Burrell

I started in the restaurant business at the age of 19 as a waitress. I loved the atmosphere and the camaraderie of the restaurant business. I loved not having to go to an office. I loved making people happy.

Anne Burrell

I feel like I can teach anyone to cook a dinner.

Anne Burrell

The margins for restaurants to make money are very, very narrow. It's a tough business, and to be a chef is a little bit masochistic.

Anne Burrell

The Anne you see on TV is me; I don't have an on-camera persona.

Anne Burrell

Organizing ahead of time makes the work more enjoyable. Chefs cut up the onions and have the ingredients lined up ahead of time and have them ready to go. When everything is organized you can clean as you go and it makes everything so much easier and fun.

Anne Burrell

I'm a girl, and I'm a cook- I just like to cook, and I don't like to worry about the distinctions. We're just supposed to make good food.

Anne Burrell

Tough love is exactly what it sounds like.

Anne Burrell

I love doing 'Worst Cooks' so very much.

Anne Burrell

I love hot dogs.

Anne Burrell

I've never been anything than a blond my whole life. There was one time when I dyed the ends pink. My father said if I ever did that again, he'd shave my head and keep me home 'til it grew back.

Anne Burrell

If you want to be a home cook, just have fun with it. Pick up a couple cookbooks. You're gonna make some mistakes; just go in and try it.

Anne Burrell

At home, my food is just sort of comfort food. It's not super fancy, but it's certainly tasty.

Anne Burrell

You don't go into being a chef for the money.

Anne Burrell

Part of being successful is about asking questions and listening to the answers.

Anne Burrell

Not every chef is a yeller, but I have to say that even a chef who is not a yeller might have a time when that rule might get broken.

Anne Burrell

My food, I think, is big. It's aggressive, it's aggressively seasoned, and it's hearty.

Anne Burrell

It's a life choice to be a girl chef, as it is to be a boy chef. It feels pretty natural to me. It's a full-time, full-scale, full physical job, and a lot of times, it can take the place of kids and family. To be in this career is much more difficult for a woman to have a family, marriage - whatever that means. It's not a 9-5 job.

Anne Burrell

I'm always a big fan of a big pot of chicken soup. I like to make a big pot of that, and I keep it in my freezer so when I come off the road and I just want to sit in my pajamas on my couch and catch up on the DVR and dig into a nice big bowl of chicken soup. It feeds my soul.

Anne Burrell

I adore my mother, and I am probably a chef because of my mother. She was adventurous.

Anne Burrell

Growing up, we always had a big garden, and it just gave me the passion and appreciation for really good food.

Anne Burrell

My mom was a great cook and also a very creative cook.

Anne Burrell

Taste as you go. When you taste the food throughout the cooking process you can make adjustments as you go.

Anne Burrell

After two undefeated seasons of 'Worst Cooks in America,' I'm ready for a third. Going against Bobby Flay takes the challenge to another level, but I'm ready to whip these contestants into shape and the winner is sure to be from Team Burrell.

Anne Burrell

I started waiting tables in college and realized how much I loved the business and loved to cook. I decided to go to culinary school and never looked back.

Anne Burrell

If I'm having a party, the easiest and the biggest thing for me to make is a big pot of meatballs.

Anne Burrell

My least favorite ingredient to cook with is black pepper.

Anne Burrell

I believe that if you have good organizational skills, then creativity can come out of that, but it's hard to be really creative when everything is a mess. And in a restaurant, organizational skills are imperative.

Anne Burrell

I think people need more to do in their life if my hair pisses them off.

Anne Burrell

Organizing ahead of time makes the work more enjoyable.

Anne Burrell

It's not sticky unless it touches itself.

Anne Burrell

My hair is always a big topic. It is just hair.

Anne Burrell

There are many places that people can produce really good food. I wouldn't limit it to an area of the country, it's what the chefs have in them.

Anne Burrell

My mom was a great cook so I always wanted to eat and make stuff. I did cooking in 4-H but it wasn't until I was out of college that I decided I wanted to make this my career.

Anne Burrell

I believe that there is always something new to learn, in fact, that is one of the three reasons that I chose to become a chef, that my education is never over.

Anne Burrell

There are so many things that you think will look cool but then you look like an idiot!

Anne Burrell

Top 40 Quotes & Sayings by Anne Burrell

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