Marco Pierre White Quotes

The best way to feel at ease in the kitchen is to learn at someone's knee.

It helps immerse yourself in what you potentially want to do. Being involved, learning firsthand and observing the craft and absorbing all you can, makes it easier to define what you want. It will also ultimately make you a better Chef. Culinary school, or even a single class, is a great bet too.

Because I've done a lot of television, I'm sort of a generalist. I'm not a pastry cook, but I've had to learn a certain amount about it. I'm not a baker, though I've had to learn how to do it. I'm sort of a general cook.

Recipes tell you nothing. Learning techniques is the key.

Anyone can cook, and most everyone should.

My mom was a great cook so I always wanted to eat and make stuff. I did cooking in 4-H but it wasn't until I was out of college that I decided I wanted to make this my career.

You don’t spring into good cooking naked. You have to have some training. You have to learn how to eat.

I learnt basic cookery by watching my mum.

Lots of the cooking classes open to non-professionals are too low-level for experienced foodies, or don't offer enough hands-on training.

Fine dining teaches you how to cook many different things, and it gives you the basic fundamentals, but these specialty restaurants, they're not teaching you the broad foundation you need to become a well-rounded cook.

Give yourself enough time to really learn how to cook.

Now everybody thinks that once you do Top Chef, then 13 weeks later you're a chef. Nobody wants to learn to cook anymore.

The best way to get anybody's attention is dinner. I have good kitchen skills and good grocery shopping skills.

I started taking all these cooking classes. I learned a lot in them, but you think you're going to retain it, and you don't. Under the pressure, it's hard to retain everything.

I can cook really well. I started cooking as a kid, so I can fend for myself in the kitchen and even do a little gourmet action.

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 think cookery shows have become so sophisticated, and everyone's so marvellous at it, but there are people like me who aren't into the cooking malarkey, who still don't know how to boil an egg for three minutes.

I don't cook, but I would love to learn.

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

I do like to cook. But I only cook a few things, but those few things I do really well.

I learned so much more prepping vegetables than I ever did in cooking school.

I went to school for culinary arts. I love to cook. That's a talent not a lot of people know about.

It came to me that the one thing I could do was cook. And I figured I couldn't do any worse than the people running these places around town.

I know how to cut meat, yeah. I know how to cook, basically.

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.