Charlie Trotter Quotes

I came literally to the table with a wealth of knowledge by simply understanding how food should taste.

A chef is a mixture maybe of artistry and craft. You have to learn the craft really to get there.

The art of the cuisine, when fully mastered, is the one human capability of which only good things can be said.

You can't fake being able to cook well.

Between the ages of six and nine, my palette was taking shape as well as my identity as a chef. It was then that I learned the difference between salty, sweet, sour and even spicy.

At culinary school, none of the things we use to define ourselves outside that world - actor, producer, student - none of that matters. It's a magical art form.

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

There will never be a right or wrong way to cook something, but there will always be a more informed way.

I think the most wonderful thing in the world is another chef. I'm always excited about learning new things about food.

Recently I've been doing risottos. Some of them have been amazing. Some of them, not all of them.

To become a good cook is to know yourself, and I, at this point, know myself. I know myself, and I know the cook I want to be and the cook I am striving to be.

Being a cook doesn't necessarily mean you are a competitor.

I do a lot of recipe creation. Translation: cooking tempting dishes that must be eaten.

We can use all the scientific tools, but it will never replace the palate or the talent of the chefs who are in the kitchen.

Cooking is an art form, a creative thing.

I don't know if I am a good cook, but I am a dedicated cook.

I'm not a chef: I'm a cook.

I loved the minute I realized I was good at cooking. Like, I had a moment - I made a roasted chicken, and I remember watching people's faces as they ate it, and I thought at that time, 'Oh, I am good at this.'

Experience, which plays such an important part in culinary work, is nowhere so necessary as in the preparation of sauces, for not only must the latter flatter the palate, but they must also very in savour, consistence, and viscosity, in accordance with the dishes they accompany.

You don’t spring into good cooking naked. You have to have some training. You have to learn how to eat.

Being a chef is the best job in the world.

Eating is the secret to good cooking.

Cookery means…English thoroughness, French art, and Arabian hospitality; it means the knowledge of all fruits and herbs and balms and spices; it means carefulness, inventiveness, and watchfulness.

I had a passion for cooking, and I was a very bad student.

My definition of Man is, a Cooking Animal. The beasts have memory, judgement, and all the faculties and passions of our mind, in a certain degree; but no beast is a cook....Man alone can dress a good dish; and every man whatever is more or less a cook, in seasoning what he himself eats.