Top 6 Quotes & Sayings by Stephanie Izard

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American chef Stephanie Izard.
Last updated on November 21, 2024.
Stephanie Izard

Stephanie Izard is an American chef and television personality best known as the first female chef to win Bravo's Top Chef, taking the title during its fourth season. She is the co-owner and executive chef of three award-winning Chicago restaurants, Girl and the Goat, Little Goat, and Duck Duck Goat, and opened her first restaurant, Scylla as chef-owner at the age of 27. Izard received a James Beard Foundation Award for "Best Chef: Great Lakes" in 2013 for her work at Girl and the Goat. She has made a number of appearances on Top Chef since her win, both as a guest judge on subsequent seasons and as a participant in Top Chef Duels. In 2017, Izard competed in the Food Network series Iron Chef Gauntlet, where she overall defeated chefs Bobby Flay, Michael Symon, and Masaharu Morimoto to obtain the title of Iron Chef.

How do we remember people when they don’t make reservations?
It’s all about getting them back in, and I think…my husband and I talk about it all the time…it’s about making it personal for the guest.
Part of being a good chef is being able to work well with others and make things work under different circumstances. — © Stephanie Izard
Part of being a good chef is being able to work well with others and make things work under different circumstances.
Being on "Top Chef" opens a lot of doors and gives you a wider audience than you may have had before. It was super-scary when I first finished the show, having no idea what to expect and wondering why my Facebook was blowing up.
I think a lot of chefs can definitely think about great flavor combinations and stuff, but then they'll pass it along to their pastry chef to actually do it in the end. Pastries, you actually do using recipes, and it's got a little more of a science to it. It's something that a lot of times, chefs aren't really involved in coming up with throughout their career, so it makes it a little more challenging.
Just have fun and don't act like an ass... People think that is the real you.
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