Alexandra Guarnaschelli Quotes

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

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.

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.

Food has always been a passion for me from a very young age.

First and foremost I am a chef, whether behind the stove at one of my Northern California restaurants or for the past 15 years in front of the camera on my Food Network cooking shows. Creating new dishes and flavor combinations that bring cooks and our restaurant guests pleasure is my job and I love it.

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

You have to balance, but you can be aggressive as a chef. It benefits the food. You have to be passionate. You can't be angry cooking.

As chefs, we cook to please people, to nourish people.

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

I've always been a foodie. My grandmother got me hooked on cooking.

I'm a home cook and love to read about food, but I'm not trained as a chef. I'm just really into cooking and passionate about it.

Get to know the Chef and you will start to enjoy dining out even more.

A great chef is an artist that I truly respect.

Cooking is like love. You don't have to be particularly beautiful or very glamorous, or even very exciting to fall in love. You just have to be interested in it. It's the same thing with food.

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

I really feel I have found myself as a chef. It's very clear to me what I want to do - and how it should taste.

Both my parents are chefs... I grew up in a restaurant and was always surrounded by cooks. I love food.

I don't know if I am a good cook, but I am a dedicated cook.

Cooking is not a craft to get into for money. The money may come, or it may not. But you must get into it for the craft and the culture.

If you're a happy person around food, you can be a professional chef. It's fueled by passion.

I have a lot of different passions. Food has been a constant through my whole life; it's something I've always had a very intrinsic passion toward and for, and I continue to learn about it, and I'm not going to let any type of negative comments dissuade me from wanting to pursue that, because I love it.

I'm very honest about my food background; I've never tried to pretend like I was a chef.

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.

I have always loved food, and for me, even if I was on a beach, I would be cooking food every day.

Being a chef never seems like a job, it becomes a true passion.