Daniel Humm Quotes

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.

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

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.

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.

I feel like there's a lot of tasks in cooking that I want to master, that I want to do better.

I wanted to learn everything I could about what it takes to be a great chef. It was a turning point for me.

I am driven by ingredients. My Italian heritage and French training inevitably poke through as well, guiding my techniques.

The role of a chef isn't to reinvent dishes but to tweak.

Patience is the secret to good food.

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

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.

When I'm hiring a cook for one of my restaurants, and I want to see what they can do, I usually ask them to make me an omelette.

Being a chef would be too much hard work.

I've been a cook all my life, but I am still learning to be a good chef. I'm always learning new techniques and improving beyond my own knowledge because there is always something new to learn and new horizons to discover.

I always knew I wanted to be a chef.

Of the people who cook on television, I have admired people like Jacques Pepin, Julia Child, Mario Batali, Jamie Oliver and a few others because they are free of drama, display good taste and masterful technique, and use clear exposition to bring you up to speed.

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

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

Every cook has to learn how to govern the state.

I call all chefs 'cooks.' They're all cooks. That's what we do, we cook. You're a chef when you're running a kitchen.

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

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 was always a good cook from my mum showing me when I was a young lad, but hiring a chef helped me to understand food better.

I loved the minute I realized I was good at cooking. Like, I had a moment - I made a roasted chicken, and I remember watching people's faces as they ate it, and I thought at that time, 'Oh, I am good at this.'