Geoffrey Zakarian Quotes

I always knew I wanted to be a chef.

As a chef, I got into this because I love the creative energy and I love the science, but I also love to feed people and make them happy.

A good chef has to be a manager, a businessman and a great cook. To marry all three together is sometimes difficult.

I kind of think of engineering like the chefs at a restaurant. Nobody's going to deny chefs are integrally important, but there's also so many other people who contribute to a great meal.

Gastronomy is my hobby. I'm simply the casting director. Once I've brought all the right people together, it is they who must work together to tell a story.

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 went in saying I wanted to be the food guy.

I worked on the line, I've been an executive chef, I've worked for the Mets, I've worked for various steakhouses, vegetarian restaurants, a lot of Middle Eastern stuff. I've worked my fair share of a lot of different things. I've worked at festivals and street fairs, you know? I've been through it all.

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

While some people may think being a chef only entails making enticing dishes and pushing the culinary boundaries, being a part of the food industry involves much more.

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

Being a chef would be too much hard work.

I've been a cook all my life, but I am still learning to be a good chef. I'm always learning new techniques and improving beyond my own knowledge because there is always something new to learn and new horizons to discover.

If you want to become a great chef, you have to work with great chefs. And that's exactly what I did.

Chefs are leaders in their own little world.

I really feel I have found myself as a chef. It's very clear to me what I want to do - and how it should taste.

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

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

I used to be a chef.

When I'm hiring a cook for one of my restaurants, and I want to see what they can do, I usually ask them to make me an omelette.

I told the caterer I'd work for nothing if he'd teach me about catering. I lasted one week full-time. It was exhausting.

All chefs have pictures of food in their phones, stuffed pig's ears and pigs' heads and the like.

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.

Our goal was to show people a vision of food they hadn't seen before. So, I had this idea of... let's cut all these things in half, and show a picture of the food in the pan, in the oven.