Zac Posen Quotes

I am a noncook, although I'm very interested and have a large collection of cookbooks.

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

I was born in North London in 1947. I didn't learn to read until I was almost 8-partly bad schooling, and partly I suspect slight dyslexic problems. My father, driven mad by this, taught me to read. At 9 I began writing.

You're getting to know who the great chefs are through their books.

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 grew up cooking. I was always in my grandma's cooking, and I never thought of it as a career.

I think for me I was in kindergarten, so I was very young and my teacher acknowledged that I was very dyslexic when it came to reading and writing and processing that information.

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

I love cooking shows! I'm not a bad cook myself, but I must say that I admire the creativity of those young chefs. It makes me jealous... and hungry.

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

I hadn't learned to read by third grade, which wasn't unusual for some kids. I knew something was wrong because I couldn't see or understand the words the way the other kids did. I wasn't the least bit bothered - until I was sent back to the second-grade classroom for reading help after school.

I wait for the next opportunity to have something to do with food. If I get rested, my mind just starts creating new dishes - click, click, click.

I love to cook. I make an award-winning turkey chili.

I love a nice cooking show. It's as aesthetically pleasing as any other thing that tempts the senses, I suppose.

I remember the Food Network when it was first starting out: Emeril Lagasse and all those people who helped make it when it was on a shoestring budget. It actually encouraged me to start cooking.

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

Chefs are leaders in their own little world.

There's no media training. In cooking school, there's not even manager training. You learn the fundamentals of cooking. Everything else is learning by doing.

Cooking is an art form, a creative thing.

I learned so much from 'Iron Chef' about ingredients, about the courage to put yourself out there.

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.

If acting doesn't work out, I'm probably going to be a professional chef.

I love to cook, and I've just gotten more and more into it over the years, just because it's the best way to stay creative.

I wanted to master the art of cooking. Maybe, when I slow down and do one or two films a year, I will learn how to cook and pursue it as my hobby.