The celebrity-chef thing, even at its worst, its most annoying, its silliest, its goofiest, its most egregious and cynical, has been a good thing.
Anthony BourdainThe Kobe craze really annoyed me. Most of the practitioners had no real understanding of the product and were abusing it and exploiting it in terrible and ridiculous ways. Kobe beef should not be used in a hamburger. It’s completely pointless.
Anthony BourdainAfter an era of everything being super-sized, who would have thought that major companies would be racing to market smaller, lower-calorie versions of their snacks and beverages – from half-sized candy bars to little, mini soda cans? We see it everywhere we go.
Michelle ObamaWhat you’re going to be eating in the next year is decided by chefs. If the consensus is that pot-bellies are in next season, that’s what’s on your plate. And I think that’s a good thing, because we know, obviously, about food.
Anthony BourdainWhen you cook under pressure you trade perfection.
Gordon RamsayMy mom had Julia Child and ‚The Fannie Farmer Cookbook‘ on top of the refrigerator, and she had a small repertoire of French dishes.
Anthony BourdainIt’s so sweet, I feel like my teeth are rotting when I listen to the radio.
BonoI like the fact that Melbourne always seems to support their chefs and promote them in ways I find really admirable.
Anthony BourdainThe true cost to the world of a burger is far greater than the money you hand over to buy it.
Richard BransonBad food is made without pride, by cooks who have no pride, and no love. Bad food is made by chefs who are indifferent, or who are trying to be everything to everybody, who are trying to please everyone… Bad food is fake food… food that shows fear and lack of confidence in people’s ability to discern or to make decisions about their lives.
Anthony BourdainThe trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.
Terry PratchettAnyone who’s a chef, who loves food, ultimately knows that all that matters is: ‚Is it good? Does it give pleasure?‘
Anthony BourdainI’m not asking any of you to make drastic changes to every single one of your recipes or to totally change the way you do business. But what I am asking is that you consider reformulating your menu in pragmatic and incremental ways to create healthier versions of the foods that we all love.
Michelle ObamaMy mother cooked like a scientist. She had a giant Chinese-style cleaver that she chopped with, and a cupboard full of spices.
Kamala HarrisIt’s very hard when you eat out every day for a living, and a new restaurant comes along and you haven’t got that same vigour that you had 10 years ago.
Gordon RamsayYou don’t come into cooking to get rich.
Gordon RamsayI’m a Twitter addict. Jose Andres is a serial tweeter. It’s funny to see which chefs have embraced it, and the different paths they take.
Anthony BourdainWhy, I’d horse-whip you if I had a horse.
Groucho MarxTokyo would probably be the foreign city if I had to eat one city’s food for the rest of my life, every day. It would have to be Tokyo, and I think the majority of chefs you ask that question would answer the same way.
Anthony BourdainYou know, from age 17 on, my paycheck was coming from cooking and working in kitchens.
Anthony BourdainI’m evangelical on the subject of some chefs and writers.
Anthony BourdainWhen I’m back in New York – and this is a terrible thing to complain about – I eat a lot more really, really good food than perhaps I’d like to. So many of my friends are really good chefs. It’s kind of like being in the Mafia.
Anthony BourdainI am the most unselfish chef in Britain today.
Gordon RamsayChefs are nutters. They’re all self-obsessed, delicate, dainty, insecure little souls and absolute psychopaths. Every last one of them.
Gordon RamsayIf you want to become a great chef, you have to work with great chefs. And that’s exactly what I did.
Gordon Ramsay