Lidia Bastianich Quotes

I worked in restaurants the first half of my life.

I'm not a TV guy. I'm a restaurant chef and a businessman.

I started waiting tables in college and realized how much I loved the business and loved to cook. I decided to go to culinary school and never looked back.

I worked as a breakfast cook in a lot of different restaurants.

A chef and a restaurateur are different jobs: One is about pleasing people with what's on the plate; the other is about understanding the market. I'm a chef, but I think I'm a savvy businessperson, too.

I was a busboy, a waiter, a manager, a sommelier... like... all of it from a family-run Polish restaurant, with, like, grandmas in the basement hand-making pierogies, to working at Bond Street for a while. I've done it all.

My parents owned a soul food diner. It inspired me to go to culinary school.

If my daughter wants to get into this business, I would support that decision. She's going to have a hard time not being in it. She loves food and she's around it all the time.

I would still like to own and run a restaurant serving Indian food with a good dollop of Parsi cooking - which you can't seem to get anywhere.

So I quit my job and went to the New England Culinary Institute for the full two years and worked in the restaurant industry after that until finally I thought I had a grasp on what I needed to do what I do.

I worked as a waiter when I was 15 and got a chance to appreciate good, simple food. There's nothing better than a boiled egg with toast.

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

I want to go to culinary school because I love cooking. One day I'd love to open up a restaurant or cafe.

If I wasn't an actress, I'd be a chef. I'd love to open a restaurant.

Whether it's books or TV, or whatever the case may be, the backbone of what I do is my restaurants.

I hope the cooks who are working for me now are getting that kind of experience so they can use what they're learning now as a foundation for a great career.

I was working in restaurants as a captain and as a waiter.

I'd love to work in a restaurant. You get to meet new people all the time and constantly socialize. There are no dull moments when you're serving. It would definitely be a fun job to have.

All my jobs have been with food in one way or another since 1948. My parents were in the hotel business, and I just loved the warm hearted people who worked so hard with such good humor.

I worked in 40 restaurants over a five-year period.

I ended up wanting to be a cook and hold my own in a restaurant.

I wanted to work in corporate restaurants.

After having seen the job done on that first show of mine, I realized that I felt like I wanted to work again for a short while. Two, three years, then stop.

There are so many things you can do with a culinary degree.

I had thought that maybe I will go into hotel business because our family loves food. And North Indian food is very famous in Hyderabad.