Eddie Huang Quotes

Recipes are overrated.

You don't have to look far to taste some of the best food the world has to offer. I'd pit my grandmother against a 3-star Michelin chef any day.

I have no formal culinary training, right.

My husband is the chef of the family; he's a brilliant cook. Actually, it makes you quite lazy when you have somebody that's so good at cooking under the same roof. It's all beans or spaghetti when I'm left to run it.

God, Americans know how to cook.

Our lives are not in the lap of the gods, but in the lap of our cooks.

Cooking classes are a great way to hone your skills, learn new recipes, and meet like-minded friends. Spending time in the kitchen with people who love to cook as much as you do is fun and educational.

First of all, I can't really claim to be a great chef.

Cooking is the showy side of domesticity.

Most of my recipes start life in the domestic kitchen, and even those that start out in the restaurant kitchen have to go through the domestic kitchen.

I think people know that I love food, but maybe people don't know that I cook a lot.

The process and the great smells it produces make everyone hungry and get everyone's mouth watering. And it gives men a chance to cook.

I'm a decent cook; I'm a decent chef. None of my friends would ever have hired me at any point in my career. Period.

I do like to cook. But I only cook a few things, but those few things I do really well.

My mom was a great cook and also a very creative cook.

I do most of the cooking at home, and both my mom and my mother-in-law are excellent chefs. However, I wouldn't call myself a chef.

Both my parents are wonderful cooks - my father looks like he has been in the kitchen his whole life.

Let me ask you: Who do you prefer, a clown organizing your menu - with all due respect to Mr. McDonald - or a chef? I do believe it's a very simple answer.

You're getting to know who the great chefs are through their books.

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

All the great chefs I know - Thomas Keller, Jean-Georges Vongerichten - they are technicians first.

I know who in the family is a great cook. I know where the great recipes are.

My mom has a rare talent for being able to open up the refrigerator, and with the peas, the leftover eggs, the cream, the spinach, the cheese, and a little rice, she can just whip up incredible risotto.

Are you kidding? I'm a terrible cook, but John is a really great one. Literally, I never cook. The whole time we were dating, I prepared two officially romantic meals. Both of them were such disasters that he begs me never to go into the kitchen again.

I don't consider myself a food person. I'm no Bobby Flay. I'm no Emeril or Paula Deen, and I'm certainly not Rachael Ray.