Dwight Henry Quotes

There are divisions between a culinary chef and a dessert chef, also called a pastry chef. There are specializations within the pastry chef field. Some pastry chefs specialize in baking breads, while others are master cake designers. Each field requires an exceptional level of creativity and attention to detail.

My dad's an architect and my mom owned a French bakery for twelve years.

I love to eat, I love to feed people, and I'm a great cook. I joked with my friends that I wanted to write a book where desserts had to be extensively researched, since I have a terrible sweet tooth. My particular downfall is cake.

I have dreams of becoming a professional pastry chef and having a little bakery - that's how much I love baking. I love to cook in general, but my heart lies in desserts.

No great pastry chef has sweet teeth.

I've always been hooked on baking.

I have been a baker for more than 30 years now, and in terms of equipment, all I really need is flour. It still amazes me what a versatile commodity it is, as you can do so many different things with it, and I never tire of trying new blends and recipes.

Oh my God, I love 'Bake Off!' I absolutely love it. It's amazing.

It is just that all my life I have been so involved in my work that I guess one could say in general that, whenever I had to balance my private life and my profession, my profession always won out.

I'm passionate about anything I align myself with. You want to talk about chocolate chip cookies? I'm not going to open a chocolate chip cookie store, but I will talk your ear off about it.

When I look back, I did what I had to do for business and then fit family life into it.

I won a prize for 'best sponge cake' at the Clacton Festival 2005. Having said that, I was only up against three other cakes.

I've never been much of a cake-maker.

Pastry school is great for a foundation and introducing you to basic techniques, but it is really up to the chefs to practice, practice, practice and refine their techniques.

It's true that writing and pastry-making are similar, but when you work as a pastry chef, you can get a kind of mania that everything you see is related to pastries.

Cake is not the issue here.

It's important to put all I have into my career.

I only have so much time and energy and money, and I'm going to put it into my work.

Every chef should have an understanding of pastries or desserts.

I don't want to put down my work - I'm very proud of the work I've done.

I'm the chocolate chip cookie king of the world.

Because my career is so important, I think I make a lot of - I wouldn't call them sacrifices, but just concessions for my job. I love what I do, and I want to do it for a long time.

I didn't have children because I was passionate about having my career.

Desserts are my life - making them, eating them, and teaching others how to prepare them perfectly.

When you're in theater, you inevitably wind up working in restaurants. I made pastry.