John Lanchester Quotes

I love 'Top Chef.'

I am addicted to watching cookery shows.

I'm hooked on food competition shows. It's unique, different... I definitely understand the importance of strategy.

It's wild how chefs have become like rock stars.

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

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.

I'm obsessed with 'Top Chef'.

I love doing 'Worst Cooks' so very much.

You'll see me on 'Top Chef' someday. My Midwestern hospitality needs an outlet, you know?

In 1981, we opened Felidia, and the newspapers, the city papers, the big timers came, and I got invited on the 'Today Show' and so on. A lot of food luminaries would come to Felidia - Julia Child, James Beard, they all came.

There is a baked item in the show, I'm there.

I had kicked around the idea for Good Eats when I was directing commercials.

I want to be Jacques Pepin. I want to have a nice 50-, 60-year career. I want to be on PBS when I'm 70-something, still kicking it, having a great time, showing up in Aspen to sign cookbooks. I just want to have a nice, big, long career.

I love food shows: Anthony Bourdain, Iron Chef, Chopped, you name it.

I created 'Dinner: Impossible' with a guy named Bryan O'Reilly and I shot the pilot as a 30 minute show and we sold it.

I like to watch Bourdain and Andrew Zimmern, because I like them when they travel. I like Ina Garten, 'The Barefoot Contessa.' Giada is really nice, but I get a little bit bored with just staying in the kitchen.

I'm an American TV show buff. I can watch them nonstop for days.

I hated the Naked Chef. Fine, yes, he did good things for school food or whatever, but, you know, I don't want my chefs to be cute and adorable.

When you have a chef that wants to be in the spotlight, maybe after one or two appearances on a show, they think they're at a certain level that they haven't reached yet in the kitchen. Shows like 'Top Chef', 'Hell's Kitchen' have helped bring attention to the culinary world.

'Molto Mario' was the show that sparked my entire interest in cooking.

I've known Emeril for more than 20 years from when I featured him on 'Lifestyles of the Rich & Famous' from his days at Commander's Palace in New Orleans and from when I helped start the Food Network where he subsequently hosted an amazing 2,000-plus shows.

I was at a party, and some squiggly looking dude with a bow tie came up and said, 'How'd you like to be on TV?' Turns out he was the programming guy at the Food Network. They had me come into the office, and I did a 'Ready, Set, Cook' with Emeril Lagasse, I believe.

The good news about showcasing chefs and the TV shows is they've attracted a lot more smart kids to the profession than 30 years ago. On the downside, though, these young chefs all say they want their own restaurant and their own TV show.

Obviously, I love Japanese food. My favorite TV show of all time, without exception, is 'Iron Chef.' Not the stupid American version; 'Iron Chef' Japanese; the real one, the one that was on in Japan... my DVR for years was set to record almost every single 'Iron Chef' episode.