Mark Kurlansky Quotes

I've never been much of a cake-maker.

I love making cakes, and I'm good at it.

I have dreams of becoming a professional pastry chef and having a little bakery - that's how much I love baking. I love to cook in general, but my heart lies in desserts.

I'm a baker. I'm really good at muffins. I'm really good at banana bread. I'm really good at making cookies. I'm really good at making biscuits - all the really bad stuff.

No great pastry chef has sweet teeth.

I'm passionate about anything I align myself with. You want to talk about chocolate chip cookies? I'm not going to open a chocolate chip cookie store, but I will talk your ear off about it.

I love to eat, I love to feed people, and I'm a great cook. I joked with my friends that I wanted to write a book where desserts had to be extensively researched, since I have a terrible sweet tooth. My particular downfall is cake.

Desserts are my life - making them, eating them, and teaching others how to prepare them perfectly.

I fell in love with pastry because I felt I could be much more creative. It's precise, and you don't have to kill anything.

I'm the chocolate chip cookie king of the world.

I am not a shock jock pastry chef. I don't create desserts using strange ingredients just for the sake of doing so, like so many of my colleagues in the industry.

The first thing I wanted to be growing up was a solicitor, because all the people around me needed solicitors! But I never really followed it up. Then I wanted to be a dessert chef because I liked the presentation.

For the life of me, I could not make a good-looking ice-cream cone.

Dad was a baker, and we lived above the bakery, so I was always popping down to have an apple pie or a doughnut or a custard or gypsy tart: I had a very sweet tooth, and I think that that was what got me into doing what I do now.

No, I was not into cake fails before hosting 'Nailed It.'

Pastry school is great for a foundation and introducing you to basic techniques, but it is really up to the chefs to practice, practice, practice and refine their techniques.

Oh my God, I love 'Bake Off!' I absolutely love it. It's amazing.

When it comes to cakes and puddings, savouries, bread and tea cakes, the English cannot be surpassed.

There are divisions between a culinary chef and a dessert chef, also called a pastry chef. There are specializations within the pastry chef field. Some pastry chefs specialize in baking breads, while others are master cake designers. Each field requires an exceptional level of creativity and attention to detail.

I think baking is an incredible thing; cooking in general is an incredible thing.

I just love to bake chocolate cakes and anything unhealthy. It makes me very popular.

I'm a really good cook. I bake a lot. I cook dinner most nights. I cook everything from Italian food to Mexican food. But if I'm going to some place and it's a potluck, I'm always the one to bring dessert!

The great thing about cake is it doesn't feel like work. You forget about work. Kids, adults, they all get the same look in their eye when they're decorating cakes... That's the magic right there.

I make a mean coconut macaroon.

My dad's an architect and my mom owned a French bakery for twelve years.