Roy Choi Quotes

I love doing demonstrations. I think to be a great chef you have to be a great teacher. I love doing classes with people who love food and enjoy food, bringing them all around one table so to speak.

I wasn't a great cook, but I was a passionate one.

I love to cook so much. I like to cook everything. I really like to eat my food.

Chefs are fond of hyperbole, so they can certainly talk that way. But on the whole, I think they probably have a more open mind than most people.

And I love to cook! I've impressed hundreds of women with my cooking. And they always come back for more.

To become a good cook is to know yourself, and I, at this point, know myself. I know myself, and I know the cook I want to be and the cook I am striving to be.

Being a cook doesn't necessarily mean you are a competitor.

I studied to be a chef as a side thing, a little hobby that I enjoyed doing, but I ended up falling madly in love with the food and the lifestyle.

You wouldn't know it but I'm no good at... cooking. My chef does that.

Growing up, my mom had a catering business. I used to help her pretty early on and loved doing it. My mom is an amazing cook, and she helped me cultivate a love for food. She taught me that food can be beautiful. We eat not just for survival, but we survive to eat. It's part of who I am.

When I have time, I really enjoy cooking.

The most I like about cooking is eating what someone else has cooked.

I grew up in a house where I was a spectator to the sport of cooking. In that way, I just learned so much about what it really takes to make food.

I'm not a chef: I'm a cook.

I've never cooked a great meal.

I don't have the talent, the temperament, or the patience to be a great chef. I'd much rather order from someone who can really do it. I love restaurants. They make my life better.

You can love food without being a cook. Equally, you can love food and be a very good cook.

I am someone who food has been a constant in my life, and it's been a passion - it's something that I've constantly studied - and I'm constantly trying to better my craft, and that's good enough for me.

At culinary school, none of the things we use to define ourselves outside that world - actor, producer, student - none of that matters. It's a magical art form.

I really have a passion for food. Of course, music, but behind that, it's food.

There are some things that I like, like education, wine, and I'd like to be a good cook, although I'm a pretty good eater now.

I have always loved food. I began cooking for my family as a young girl, and to this day, it's one of my greatest pleasures in life.

I could talk food all day. I love good food.

I don't know what singers feel like when they make a song and people clap along and love it, but when people walk up to me and say the food was outstanding, that's what it is all about. I cook because I like to make people happy.

Cooking is not difficult. Everyone has taste, even if they don't realize it. Even if you're not a great chef, there's nothing to stop you understanding the difference between what tastes good and what doesn't.