Top 918 Quotes & Sayings by Famous Chefs - Page 16
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As chefs, especially pastry chefs, your creativity plays such an important part in your daily work. We truly do have a blank canvas to work with every time we create a new dish.
For me, I don't expect to have a really amazing meal each time I dine out. Having a good meal with your loved ones - that's what makes the experience.
In 2004, we opened our first store in Manhattan. I installed a big window so people could see me making the chocolates. That store cost $1.8 million. It has a 45-foot-long chocolate counter and a hot chocolate bar made in Louis XVI style because that's when chocolate arrived in Europe.
I love showing my personality in my cooking.
We're not choosing the art, the art is choosing us. The pieces are choosing the walls where they hang.
You don't become a chef to become famous.
Latin food suffers like Chinese. You can do marginal Chinese and be successful. You can do crappy Mexican and be packed.
Money is like manure: if you don't spread it around, nothing grows.
Ultimately, the perfect meal is when those things come together - circumstance, the food, ambiance, and you're with the person that you want to be with.
I don't know if you call a burger 'recession food.' It's comfort food.
You worry too much about what goes into your mouth and not enough about what comes out of it.
Cookery is not chemistry. It is an art.
It's so important to find what you love. If you love it, you'll excel at it.
I always could cook. Mostly it was down to osmosis. I spent so much time in the kitchen with my mum as a kid. She was always talking to me about what she was doing.
With an old broom handle, flour, water and egg you can make the most amazing pasta.
There are many people who claim to be good cooks; just as there are many people who, after having repainted the garden gate take themselves to be painters.
Stay away from restaurants that have menus in five languages. That's always a tourist trap. You want to eat where the locals eat.
Backyard barbecues are really just about getting together. It's all about making people come over, having a really good time, talking about their lives, and sharing some great recipes.
