I’m a collector of famous quotes about whatever it is I’m interested in. I used to write them all down and keep them in notebooks but now that I’m a computer genius (haha) I keep them in folders on my PC. Here’s some interesting food and cooking quotes from famous celebrity chefs worldwide.
I love how chefs our so passionate about their gardens and fresh ingredients. Without the garden I don’t believe you experience the full circle. Which is not to say that everything you cook should be grown by you 😉
- Development is where my heart is focused because eating is the only thing that we do that involves all the senses. We eat with our eyes and our ears and our noses. You think about some of the most memorable meals you’ve ever had; the food will be good but it will often be about locating a mental memory and taste is inexorably linked to all the other senses and memory, so ultimately it is all about taste.
Celebrity chef Heston Blumenthal - Vegetarians, and their Hezbollah-like splinter faction, the vegans, are a persistent irritant to any chef worth a damn. To me, life without veal stock, pork fat, sausage, organ meat, demi-glace, or even stinky cheese is a life not worth living. Vegetarians are the enemy of everything good and decent in the human spirit, and an affront to all I stand for, the pure enjoyment of food. The body, these waterheads imagine, is a temple that should not be polluted by animal protein. It’s healthier, they insist, though every vegetarian waiter I’ve worked with is brought down by any rumor of a cold. Oh, I’ll accommodate them, I’ll rummage around for something to feed them, for a ‘vegetarian plate’, if called on to do so. Fourteen dollars for a few slices of grilled eggplant and zucchini suits my food cost fine.
Celebrity chef Anthony Bourdain - You can’t beat the feeling of venturing outdoors and picking a few ingredients from the garden to cook with.
Celebrity chef Gordon Ramsey - Food is life, life is food. If you don’t like my approach you are welcome to go down to McDonalds.
Celebrity chef Keith Floyd - I am on such an anti-perfection crusade. I’m not perfect! Who wants to be? I’m not patient at all. I’m not saying everything has to be just right: you will never cook if you think the end result has to be four-star Michelin.
Celebrity chef Nigella Lawson - With Britain consuming more processed food than the rest of Europe put together, it’s a sad fact that most people just aren’t confident enough to cook any more.
Celebrity chef Jamie Oliver - People say I’m a monster, but I’m not a monster.. I just have to maintain a high standard that people are paying a fortune for. I seem to be the only chef in the country who gets upset when things go wrong.
Celebrity chef Gordon Ramsey - America’s most dangerous export was never nuclear weapons or Jerry Lewis—or even Baywatch reruns. It was, is, and probably always will be our fast-food outlets.
Celebrity chef Anthony Bourdain - Cooking is an art and patience a virtue.. Careful shopping, fresh ingredients and an unhurried approach are nearly all you need. There is one more thing.. love. Love for food and love for those you invite to your table. With a combination of these things you can be an artist.
Celebrity chef Keith Floyd - It’s my second year of growing my vegetable patch and I love it. That has given me such a lot of inspiration, a different inspiration than I had from walking around a market or meeting beautiful producers, or having parties or occasions and stuff. I think inspiration is around every corner, I think, and you have to just be a sponge.
Celebrity chef Jamie Oliver - I love the quality of the ingredients that come out of the sea here in Australia and I’m very close to that. But I think the thing I like most about Sydney is the natural beauty of the harbour. I often think about it. Lots of people around the world don’t touch and feel iconic things everyday.
Celebrity chef Neil Perry - I’m generally impressed by the popularity of cooking and eating these days in the English speaking nations; somehow it’s just taken off in pop culture.
Celebrity chef Rick Stein - I always cook to music; it’s really important that what I’m cooking is evoked in the mood of the music. It’s just hugely, hugely important to me and has been all my life, especially growing up. In our household food and music were the centres; they were the most important things to my dad. I came from a musical family. The two just go together!
Celebrity chef Maggie Beer - If it’s something I don’t want to carry on eating once I’m full, then I don’t want the recipe. I’m quite ruthless. I have to feel that I want to cook the thing again, and more than once. I need to feel that I have to stop myself from cooking it all the time.
Celebrity chef Nigella Lawson - Scarcely a week passes when I’m not invited to speak at a food industry or fundraising function and I always try to accept. At my age, being asked to pass on what I’ve learned is a pleasure and a privilege.
Celebrity chef Margaret Fulton - Quite often I am not terribly careful in my demonstrations; I’ll change a recipe around based on my intuitive process as I have cooked for so many years. People who’ve watched the program and read the book have written to me and queried as to why I wrote a recipe differently compared to the way I showed it on TV.
Celebrity chef Rick Stein - Cooking professionally is a dominant act, at all times about control. Eating well, on the other hand, is about submission. It’s about giving up all vestiges of control, about entrusting your fate entirely to someone else. It’s about turning off the mean, manipulative, calculating, and shrewd person inside you, and slipping heedlessly into a new experience as if it were a warm bath. It’s about shutting down the radar and letting good things happen. Let it happen to you.
Celebrity chef Anthony Bourdain
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