Jenna Blum Quotes

I used to be a chef.

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

I worked as a cook before starting acting.

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

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

I went in saying I wanted to be the food guy.

My first proper kitchen was this funny little club that we set up in Mercer Street in Covent Garden. It got shut down. Then I worked at a club in Notting Hill.

I don't get to cook in my own restaurant.

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.

I was a dishwasher at one of those Japanese places that cook on your table. Not too fun.

I started in the restaurant business at the age of 19 as a waitress. I loved the atmosphere and the camaraderie of the restaurant business. I loved not having to go to an office. I loved making people happy.

If a restaurant kitchen is your office, Nom is for you.

I have spent more time in my life working and being in restaurants than being at home. I immediately feel comfortable entering a restaurant, and I feel even more comfortable in the back with the chef and cooks.

I absolutely love the restaurant industry.

I wouldn't mind having a nice little restaurant.

I know my way around the kitchen. I like to cook, so I can fry an egg. I guess I could be a fry cook at Bob's Big Boy or something, or maybe a sous chef somewhere a little nicer. I would like to do that. I think I can probably pick that up pretty quickly.

The food business is very tough, but there's also a lot of love and very giving.

My cousin owns restaurants, and I used to work in his restaurants with his chef. I've always liked food, and I've always been interested in cooking and stuff like that.

I was a journeyman chef of middling abilities. Whatever authority I have as a commenter on this world comes from the sheer weight of 28 years in the business. I kicked around for 28 years and came out the other end alive and able to form a sentence.

You know, from age 17 on, my paycheck was coming from cooking and working in kitchens.

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

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.

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 had a job at this French restaurant, and I hated it. I don't like serving; I don't like getting people ketchup.