Chelsea Handler Quotes

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.

The art of cookery is the art of poisoning mankind, by rendering the appetite still importunate, when the wants of nature are supplied.

The first sign that I'd been unknowingly affected by cooking shows occurred on a Sunday morning when I realized I was talking to myself. I'd been making toast. 'First, we cut our bread,' I whispered. 'Do you know why?' I stopped what I was doing and looked up. 'Let me tell you why.'

You can't fake being able to cook well.

I like that talented chefs are able to keep coming up with new ways of preparing food - it really is an art form.

Being a chef never seems like a job, it becomes a true passion.

Beauty fades, but cooking is eternal.

Being a chef is the best job in the world.

Cooking may be a creative art, but it's also a wonderful full-time hobby.

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.

When I'm in a good mood I like to cook. But I don't like saying it in public because I find myself being resentful of the idea; "Now you will make a good wife. You can cook, right?" So when people ask me I go, "No, I don't like cooking!"

I'm from where...Rich and A hit the kitchen they were pitchin up

'Top Chef' is always entertaining - it's hard to stop watching, like a good hockey fight, but no one gets hurt. It's great that the format is so inherently dramatic and can make cooking so entertaining to people who might not ordinarily be interested in a cooking show. Good for the industry all round.

Cooks are an undervalued, awesome profession.

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.

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

There are some things that I like, like education, wine, and I'd like to be a good cook, although I'm a pretty good eater now.

The way to entice people into cooking is to cook delicious things.

Chefs don't become chefs just to earn stars - that's not the goal.

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

I can cook really well. I started cooking as a kid, so I can fend for myself in the kitchen and even do a little gourmet action.

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.

I love to cook and I know a lot of people watching love those segments, but so often they feel rushed to me. If we give 'em a bit more time to breathe, people will get more out of them.

I wanted to learn everything I could about what it takes to be a great chef. It was a turning point for me.