Famous chef quotes

Cooking is like love: it should be entered into with abandon or not at all. – Harriet Van Horne

The only real stumbling block is fear of failure. In cooking you’ve got to have a what-the-hell attitude. – Julia Child

Cooking is all about people. Food is maybe the only universal thing that really has the power to bring everyone together. No matter what culture, everywhere around the world, people get together to eat. – Guy Fieri

I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food. – W. C. Fields

The greatest dishes are very simple. – Auguste Escoffier

The only time to eat diet food is while you’re waiting for the steak to cook. – Julia Child

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. – Wolfgang Puck

Cooking is one of the great gifts you can give to those you love. – Ina Garten

A recipe has no soul. You, as the cook, must bring soul to the recipe. – Thomas Keller

Food is symbolic of love when words are inadequate. – Alan D. Wolfelt

Cooking is like music: you can tell when someone puts their heart and soul into it. – Marcus Samuelsson

The only thing I like better than talking about food is eating. – John Walters

Food is essential for life; therefore, make it good. – S.T. Dupont

Laughter is brightest in the place where food is. – Irish Proverb

Food is our common ground, a universal experience. – James Beard

The best way to show someone you care is to cook something for them. – Tom Douglas

Cooking is at once child’s play and adult joy. – Craig Claiborne

Cooking is an expression of the land where you are and the culture of that place. – Wolfgang Puck

Good food is the foundation of genuine happiness. – Auguste Escoffier

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

One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well. – Virginia Woolf

In the realm of cooking, too much depends on invention. Skill becomes secondary, and victory the first and only consideration. – Émile Zola

Food brings people together on many different levels. It’s nourishment of the soul and body; it’s truly love. – Giada De Laurentiis

Great cooking is about being inspired by the simple things around you – fresh markets, various spices. It doesn’t necessarily have to look fancy. – G. Garvin

Cooking is like love; it should be entered into with abandon or not at all. – Harriet Van Horne

Cooking is not difficult, only the dishes make it so. – Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

Cooking is an art, but all art requires knowing something about the techniques and materials. – Nathan Myhrvold

The measure of achievement is not winning awards. It’s doing something that you appreciate, something you believe is worthwhile. – Julia Child

Good cooking is when things taste of what they are. – Alice Waters

Food is essential to life; therefore, make it good. – S.T. Dupont

There is no love sincerer than the love of food. – George Bernard Shaw

The only real stumbling block is fear of failure. In cooking you’ve got to have a ‘What the hell?’ attitude. – Julia Child

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. – Wolfgang Puck

The only time to eat diet food is while you’re waiting for the steak to cook. – Julia Child

Cooking is at once child’s play and adult joy. And cooking done with care is an act of love. – Craig Claiborne

Cooking from scratch doesn’t mean it has to take forever. – Ree Drummond

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

Cooking and baking is both physical and mental therapy. – Mary Berry

Good food and a warm kitchen are what makes a house a home. – Rachael Ray

Cooking requires confident guesswork and improvisation— experimentation and substitution, dealing with failure and uncertainty in a creative way. – Paul Theroux

If you’re not the one cooking, stay out of the way and compliment the chef. – Michael Strahan

Food is the ingredient that binds us together. – Dariel Reid

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

In cooking, you’ve got to have a what-the-hell attitude. – Julia Child

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. – Wolfgang Puck

Cooking is one failure after another, and that’s how you finally learn. – Julia Child

I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food. – W. C. Fields

Food brings people together on many different levels. It’s nourishment of the soul and body; it’s truly love. – Giada De Laurentiis

Cooking is all about people. Food is maybe the only universal thing that really has the power to bring everyone together. No matter what culture, everywhere around the world, people get together to eat. – Guy Fieri

The only real stumbling block is fear of failure. In cooking, you’ve got to have a ‘What the hell?’ attitude. – Julia Child