Roy Choi Quotes

I've taught myself how to use good, fresh ingredients and to prepare them as simply as possible by cooking only to enhance their intrinsic flavors.

Back in the day, we ate fresh; our parents cooked. Now, we're starting to think things are fresh because they're in a can, they're in a box, or they're frozen. That's not fresh. It's difficult to get real fresh.

The older I get, the more interested in good meals I am.

Even if you don't think you can cook well, you can cook better than the food industry.

I could talk food all day. I love good food.

I've always been a foodie. My grandmother got me hooked on cooking.

The key to a good meal is simplicity and the right seasoning.

As a girl, I had zero interest in the stove. I've always had a healthy appetite, especially for the wonderful meat and the fresh produce of California, but I was never encouraged to cook and just didn't see the point in it.

In America, you look at food as bad and guilty. In France, we love food and we enjoy food; food is pleasure.

Protein bars, protein flapjacks, protein granola, protein ice cream and protein coconut water... To look at the health-food aisles, you'd think that protein was a substance no one could overeat. Even bread now comes in protein-enriched form.

If you made all the French fries you ate, you would eat them much less often, if only because they're so much work. The same holds true for fried chicken, chips, cakes, pies, and ice cream. Enjoy these treats as often as you're willing to prepare them - chances are good it won't be every day.

God, Americans know how to cook.

I think food is getting lighter and healthier because people eat out so often. It's about quality ingredients because that is the root of good food.

As a student of Alice Waters, the patron saint of salad, I'm no stranger to the art of lettuce washing.

Like many other chef-entrepreneurs, I am convinced that fast food does not mean bad food.

For me, the good food starts with good product.

I have a chef who cooks for me. I like to eat healthy.

Cooking for yourself is the only sure way to take back control of your diet from the food scientists and food processors, and to guarantee you're eating real food rather than edible foodlike substances, with their unhealthy oils, high-fructose corn syrup, and surfeit of salt.

Food is Essential to life, therefore make it good.

Cooking is work that is traditionally done by working-class people. The work itself is not glamorous. It's repetitive, and it's a lot closer to factory work than art, whatever level you're doing it at. Certainly chefs are used to living like rock 'n' rollers to some extent, inasmuch as we get a lot of those fringe benefits without having to learn how to play guitar.

I believe that 'MasterChef' brings something more to the table, so to speak, than simply being another reality food TV show. My hope is that it will inspire America to get more involved in the food they eat, how it is prepared.

Well, I have a lot of food references in my work.

My dad gave me the gene to enjoy cooking, and to enjoy consuming good food and wine.

Do not allow watching food to replace making food.

Just because we eat together does not mean we eat right: Domino's alone delivers a million pizzas on an average day.