Brett Dalton Quotes

I love 'Top Chef.'

I watched the first week of 'Hell's Kitchen'. It was fascinating to see Marco Pierre White because I've only ever seen him in moody photographs.

I have a cooking show that's coming on that I did in Albany. It will be on The Cooking Channel.

I'm obsessed with 'Top Chef'.

I love doing 'Worst Cooks' so very much.

All I watch is the Food Network. I took a cheesemaking class a few weeks ago, and I told my family and friends to only get me kitchen stuff on my birthday. I'm into every kind of cookbook and anything by Anthony Bourdain. I'd love to own a restaurant if I could find the right chef.

Nobody who cooks does it with full hair and makeup in front of a TV camera.

Oh yeah, the 'Chef' movie was awesome.

I'm pretty sure that the world doesn't know that I am a 'Big Brother' superfan.

I love 'Big Brother.' I adore it. What can I say. It just suits me fine.

'MasterChef' is pretty good.

I love food shows.

I love cookery programmes.

Nobody believed the 'Food Network' could last. Even I was short sighted and thought to myself, 24 hours of food on TV? They'll run out of things to talk about in four days! But that wasn't true. 'Food Network' continues to get better and evolve.

I became friends with a lot of chefs. I was a judge on 'Top Chef' last year. It was a dream come true.

I am so proud of 'Top Chef' - I think it's got great cred.

I love 'Top Chef.' I think it rewrote the book on how food shows are presented on TV.

My guilty pleasure is competitive cooking reality shows. I don't like cooking shows when it's just about cooking. It has to be competitive - they're fighting and yelling at each other. I am obsessed with those shows, and I have no idea why.

I do watch 'American Idol' sometimes. It's not really that pleasurable... I take that back. It is the epitome of a guilty pleasure. Sometimes there's some good singers on that show.

I used to play hooky from school so I could watch cooking shows.

I remember in the first season going, 'This is retarded. I can't believe they're making chefs do this.' But then it actually does show off certain skills. And at the end of the day, this is entertainment and this stuff is very entertaining. Is a lot of it ridiculous? Of course it is. But that's what makes it interesting.

We are not really privy to all that crazy stuff that goes on in the show. I go to work, eat, and talk about food. The wild things happen when we aren't around. I expected Top Chef to last three or four seasons and we are now shooting season ten.

I'm so grateful every single day for 'Real Girl's Kitchen.'

I'm as surprised as anybody. I never would have thought I'd be here talking about having a cooking show on the Food Network. It wasn't on my list of things, but it's fun, and I'm having a good time.

I don't regret putting 'The Apprentice' on television.