Kitchen Dynamics Quotes

That's a big deal for kids, when they come into the kitchen and the teacher is drinking coffee with mom. They react differently on the next day when you say: 'Sit down and shut-up!'

Friends have warned me that I can be a bully in the kitchen. With every fledgling relationship, I'm anxiously aware that the simple act of cooking alongside my new paramour can unleash havoc.

I like serving family-style or setting up a buffet. Everyone just goes to town, scoops their own food, and mixes their own drinks. You know how people love to come and watch you in the kitchen now and talk your ear off? If you give them something to do and something to drink, they don't do that as much.

I liked the energy of cooking, the action, the camaraderie. I often compare the kitchen to sports and compare the chef to a coach. There are a lot of similarities to it.

I've always been fascinated by chefs and the worlds of chefs - what they do is incredibly cinematic.

My mother, grandmother and older sister all cooked, so it was hard to get into the kitchen. So I have no talent for cooking. I was always out in the garage with my dad. I have a tool belt. I'm a repair chick.

It's quite weird knocking that out of them and telling them to forget cooking for chefs; forget what chefs say about your food.

Then Maura made something with butter and Calla made something with bacon and Blue steamed broccoli in self-defense.

In any restaurant of this caliber, the chefs are in the same position, building relationships.