Jon Taffer Quotes

A chef is a mixture maybe of artistry and craft. You have to learn the craft really to get there.

I love food and am very good at improvising when preparing it - it's a really creative experience for me.

Cooking is an art form, a creative thing.

I've always been fascinated by chefs and the worlds of chefs - what they do is incredibly cinematic.

If you can't think like an onion or a carrot or a tomato, you may be a technician, but you won't understand what you're doing, and your dish will be flat.

I enjoy watching talented cooks bringing together ingredients into a fabulous dish.

See, I'm a believer that people are born with a sense of cooking. It's something within them that really gives them the ability to create and to understand flavors.

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.

As a restaurateur, my palate is one of my most important tools.

I'm just someone who likes cooking and for whom sharing food is a form of expression.

A great chef is an artist that I truly respect.

Preparing food is not just about yourself and others. It is about everything!

I love a nice cooking show. It's as aesthetically pleasing as any other thing that tempts the senses, I suppose.

I do a lot of recipe creation. Translation: cooking tempting dishes that must be eaten.

I always liked the stress, the real high-stakes, get-the-orders-out line-cook job, as well as the ordering of the produce and everything - it's really similar to making music for a show like 'Hannibal.' It's like cooking; it's just like owning a restaurant.

As a chef, I got into this because I love the creative energy and I love the science, but I also love to feed people and make them happy.

I like that talented chefs are able to keep coming up with new ways of preparing food - it really is an art form.

It is not difficult now to make good food because we have sophisticated equipment and refined ingredients. Being innovative also helps you. It sets you apart from other chefs. But taste is king.

Cooking is like doing yoga. There is a lot of satisfaction in cooking food for others.

Cooking well, with love, is an art.

While you can have the cult of the celebrity chef, the food still must taste good.

I've had the privilege of having a lot of amazing people cook for me.

Chefs have the ego of an actor and fashion designer combined.

'Iron Chef America' is so real. Imagine putting on television the whole process of making that food, the technique. It's all about technique. It doesn't even matter if you show the faces sometimes.

I've never cooked a great meal.