Jacques Torres Quotes

I started cooking when I was about 10. I have memories like when I was 6 or 7 with my mom, and when I was 12 I started getting real serious about cooking.

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

When I left restaurants, I had to learn to be a home cook.

I've cooked my whole life, and I grew up in a household of cooks.

I could not be more thrilled to be writing about the recipes I love and think are essential to any novice home cook, professional, and somewhere in between.

I have a real interest in baking. I'd love to go to culinary school. That's actually my plan: to graduate high school and go to culinary school.

I guess I fell into cooking.

I love shows about creating and cooking. Sometimes they're so extraordinary, you end up setting yourself to fail.

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

I've never gone to culinary school, but I do love cooking.

I would love to do a cookery show and cookery books. I'm not a professional cook, but I can definitely cook. I know the difference between good and bad cooking. I mean, when I was in 'Big Brother' I was the glorified cook of the house, so if I got offered my own show - then why not?

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

My mom taught me how to make grilled chicken, and I bake, too.

I don't know how to cook and there's so much work involved you have to buy the groceries and prepare them. I like it when people cook for me, or I'll just order some take-out.

I'm a home cook, and I'm constantly embarrassed by twentysomethings who really do know the mechanics of cooking. How to build a sauce.

I've never considered myself a celebrity or even part of the entertainment business. I'm a cooking teacher.

I liked to screw around in the kitchen when I was a kid. But I started cooking when I was 15.

When I was 14 years old, I decided I could cook. It was either that or puberty.

I started culinary school at a very young age, and really I wanted to be out working, cooking, more than I wanted to be in a classroom. You could say I wasn't a very good student - I wanted to be a student of life and experience.

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

I was aiming for the cooks that I've talked to by teaching an online course and by traveling, listening to people who are really busy and harried but want to be cooking.

I love cooking and baking.

I love to cook. My mom taught me to cook at a very, very young age.

I love to cook. I could never give that up.