Clarence Clemons Quotes

Like a musician expresses himself through music and a writer's expression is in his writings, cooking is my mode of expression.

I love food and am very good at improvising when preparing it - it's a really creative experience for me.

I do a lot of recipe creation. Translation: cooking tempting dishes that must be eaten.

I love the alchemy of cooking, the theatre of it. It's creating something.

I think baking is an incredible thing; cooking in general is an incredible thing.

I cook more theoretically than I do practically. My job is creative, and in the kitchen, the biggest part of my creativity is theoretical.

I just love food and the art of it. There's such an art to being a good chef and the way you present food and the different ingredients you use. It's like music - you get inspiration from different genres. It's the same with art, too.

I'm a keen experimenter in the kitchen. With food, not with anything else!

Cooking well, with love, is an art.

Cooking hasn't yet been accepted as the art form it is. It should be on the level with any of the other art forms.

At culinary school, none of the things we use to define ourselves outside that world - actor, producer, student - none of that matters. It's a magical art form.

A chef is a mixture maybe of artistry and craft. You have to learn the craft really to get there.

First and foremost I am a chef, whether behind the stove at one of my Northern California restaurants or for the past 15 years in front of the camera on my Food Network cooking shows. Creating new dishes and flavor combinations that bring cooks and our restaurant guests pleasure is my job and I love it.

I always feel like the editing room is like coming into the kitchen. What kind of a meal do you make from there? It can be anything.

I think the most wonderful thing in the world is another chef. I'm always excited about learning new things about food.

I enjoy watching talented cooks bringing together ingredients into a fabulous dish.

I have always loved food. I began cooking for my family as a young girl, and to this day, it's one of my greatest pleasures in life.

It's very hard to be an innovator at the highest level in any discipline. For some chefs it's merely about combining ingredients, but that's something you can do with your eyes closed.

I'm a home cook and love to read about food, but I'm not trained as a chef. I'm just really into cooking and passionate about it.

Cooking is an art, but all art requires knowing something about the techniques and materials. Using modernist techniques, you get more control, and that allows you to be more artistic, not less!

Cooking is chemistry, really.

Cooking is about passion, so it may look slightly temperamental in a way that it's too assertive to the naked eye.

Cooking is like painting or writing a song. Just as there are only so many notes or colors, there are only so many flavors - it's how you combine them that sets you apart.

I find cooking very therapeutic. As a creative person, I relish cooking because it's such a creative process. You can cook anything out of anything.

I love to cook, and I've just gotten more and more into it over the years, just because it's the best way to stay creative.