Culinary Talent Quotes

I'm a good cook, but I can't bake.

I think there are a lot of chefs in D.C. who have made D.C. what it is today. I am very respectful to them. I'm very admiring of what they've done.

On 'Sweet Genius,' you have to be tough with the chefs, but my goal was to guide them and choose the genius who will win $10,000 - not a bad sum at all for one day's work.

There is a standing joke in my family that I was born with a ladle in my hand.

I'm a beast in the kitchen.

What I learned about America is that anything is possible, but sometimes people get into businesses they shouldn't be in. They go in without capital or know how, but their mothers had told them that they could cook, and they're good with people.

Many of them have accomplished a lot before they ever get to 'Top Chef' although they're not well known. The show just provides them with a platform. There's just one winner and on some seasons you can get numerous chefs that are really good. Even if they don't win, they're all talented.

It's an interesting thing, Top Chef. Some of the contestants will make you one great dish, and then make you something on the next show that will make you say, "Is that the same person?"

I loved my mother very much, but she was not a good cook. Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before. In our house Thanksgiving was a time for sorrow.

I'm actually a good cook.

Leo, sadly, has Parkinson's, but he used to cook all sorts of dazzling things.

I am a better cook than I am an actor. If I have any ego, it's about cooking. I'm one of the best cooks... and I cook in any language.

Both my parents are wonderful cooks - my father looks like he has been in the kitchen his whole life.

Long Island for me, it's producing more chefs coming out of there than Paris.

My wife just so happens to make an amazing bean dip.

I can cook really complicated recipes, but it takes a real talent to do the perfect egg.

My sister's fish tacos are out of control. I'd give her a restaurant if I were a gazillionaire.

I tell ya, my wife's a lousy cook. After dinner, I don't brush my teeth. I count them.

My mom was as brilliant a cook as my dad is.

There isn't anything hotter than a guy who cooks.

I come from a musical family as well as a culinary family.

I can't say, maybe it's something in the ingredients, but again, we have a couple of contestants from Long Island and a phenomenal array of chefs.

I'm surprised by the talent I find all over. There are always new chefs who propose many interesting new ideas, new ways of looking at ingredients.

'MasterChef' is the search for America's culinary amateur talent, so this is a search for the best home cook in America, and it's our job to figure out who that is.

I am a terrible chef; I'm not a good cook. I don't have the talent, the patience, the desire even to cook the way these great artists that I meet around the world cook, and I'm very, very happy to support them. I invest in restaurants because I love them so much.