Adam Giles Quotes

Way back when I was a junior pastry chef, I'd bake loads of muffins every morning, as many as 120 or so, while operating on autopilot.

I have a real interest in baking. I'd love to go to culinary school. That's actually my plan: to graduate high school and go to culinary school.

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

Cooking is about presenting flavors and other aspects of food in a way that makes best use of them and makes an engaging, satisfying meal. Taste necessarily comes into it along with technique. Some ingredients require cooking, cleaning or otherwise denaturing them, some are fine as they are.

I was actually going to be a chef before I got sidetracked. I used to make deserts for restaurants as a young teenage mother to make money.

My dad's an architect and my mom owned a French bakery for twelve years.

I studied cooking all through high school.

I worked on the line, I've been an executive chef, I've worked for the Mets, I've worked for various steakhouses, vegetarian restaurants, a lot of Middle Eastern stuff. I've worked my fair share of a lot of different things. I've worked at festivals and street fairs, you know? I've been through it all.

Being a cook doesn't necessarily mean you are a competitor.

I love to eat, I love to feed people, and I'm a great cook. I joked with my friends that I wanted to write a book where desserts had to be extensively researched, since I have a terrible sweet tooth. My particular downfall is cake.

Kids want to saute, to cut the pizza, to see how the ingredients come together. If you let them do the fun stuff, they'll develop skills and interests that will stay with them forever.

Cooking is like anything else: some people have an inborn talent for it. Some become expert by practicing, and some learn from books.

I love to cook. I could never give that up.

I do all the cooking in the family. I cook Italian, mostly, pastas and roasts, and bit by bit, I'm learning how to bake. I think cooking is a gift to other people.

I respect anybody that cooks. I know how hard it is.

Alan Arkin is a good cook.

I've always been hooked on baking.

Desserts are my life - making them, eating them, and teaching others how to prepare them perfectly.

I started cooking around 9 years old. I would make crepes at home for my parents. By 15 years old, I had started my apprenticeship at a bakery.

I look back and nearly all of my early jobs were in food.

My comfort zone is in a kitchen.

I don't really cook.

I took a Chinatown bus to New York to enroll in the International Culinary Center's pastry program.

I used to be a chef.

I think baking is very rewarding, and if you follow a good recipe, you will get success.