Do we really require so many gardening programmes, makeover programmes or celebrity chefs?
I wanted to work in a restaurant. Le Cirque was looking for a chef and they approached me. I was excited to be able to be part of this restaurant with an amazing reputation, but not a good one for food at the time. I made it clear that if I was coming to Le Cirque it was going to change.
I would have thought you'd import an English staff?" "Good heavens, no! I would not wish a British chef on anyone except the French tax collectors.
Fame hurt. People thought I was a sellout chef and stopped coming to my restaurant.
Before any exposure on TV, I'm a real chef.
I always loved cooking, from an early age. I kind of wanted to be a chef.
I'm evangelical on the subject of some chefs and writers.
I think it's a universal truth that most chefs I know are happiest eating simple, unadorned good things.
I wasn't that great a chef, and I don't think I'm that great a writer.
Every chef I know, their cholesterol is through the roof. And mine's not so great.
I'm a decent cook; I'm a decent chef. None of my friends would ever have hired me at any point in my career. Period.
If you go to chefs all across America and ask them, 'What's your biggest problem right now?,' It is finding people to cook in their restaurants. They're having an enormous, countrywide problem here staffing their operations.
Having been a chef for some many years, I understand what it's like to work really, really hard to get good at something, only to have someone piss all over it.
It's not sticky unless it touches itself.
I've been nominated for 12 Emmys, and we won - for 'Top Chef' - the only time I didn't go.
I am so proud of 'Top Chef' - I think it's got great cred.
Very good cooks who are employed as 'chefs' rarely refer to themselves as 'chefs.' They refer to themselves as 'cooks.'
The worst food you'll ever eat will probably be prepared by a 'cook' who calls himself a 'chef.' Mark my words.
Nobody likes sweaty coleslaw.
