Recipe Development Quotes

I always wanted to be a chef. Flavors and food were always of interest to me, but it was how those things brought friends and family together to celebrate not only the special occasions but everyday life. It has been a blessing that I have been able to pursue a career that creates a product that brings people together.

A great chef is an artist that I truly respect.

I am addicted to watching cookery shows.

The album 'Kelis Was Here' sucked the life out of me, and so I went off and studied to be a Cordon Bleu chef. What's great about food is that it's less about who you know and what you look like, and more about if you're any good.

My mother was creative in the kitchen.

Cooking's my hobby.

I adore my mother, and I am probably a chef because of my mother. She was adventurous.

I've cooked my whole life, and I grew up in a household of cooks.

I've always loved to cook. It helps me to relax and gives me peace. It's my nourishment.

I used to be a chef.

Nobody believed the 'Food Network' could last. Even I was short sighted and thought to myself, 24 hours of food on TV? They'll run out of things to talk about in four days! But that wasn't true. 'Food Network' continues to get better and evolve.

No one's born a good cook. You have to learn and practice.

I started cooking seven years ago for real, and I started with pasta, and lasagna and roast chicken. Very normal American dishes. When I turned on Food Network, or any sort of cooking channel, that's what people were making. So that's where your education comes from.

I remember loving food tech because of the precision and the creativity, the weights and measures, the tiny glimpses of flavour.

For me, I am very much a champion of home cooking and home cooks.

I think that maybe growing up and being dyslexic early on, the visual quality of cookbooks specifically was something very enticing to me.

When you do a menu at a restaurant, you have to be the engineer of that menu. It has to be a crowd-pleaser.

Cooking is not a craft to get into for money. The money may come, or it may not. But you must get into it for the craft and the culture.

I have always loved food, and for me, even if I was on a beach, I would be cooking food every day.

I started cooking when I was about 10. I have memories like when I was 6 or 7 with my mom, and when I was 12 I started getting real serious about cooking.

My mom was a great cook and also a very creative cook.

I had kicked around the idea for Good Eats when I was directing commercials.

I'd love to own a bakery at some point. My grandmother could help me run it - she is an amazing baker! I'd also love to do a cookbook.

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.

I'm sick of all these boring cooking shows.