Wolfgang Puck Quotes

When chefs like Wolfgang Puck became household names, that became a compelling reason for an intelligent young person to go into the cooking profession. There have been no waiters who have turned into household names. The service and hospitality aspects have clearly lagged behind the kitchen.

My mom was a great cook so I always wanted to eat and make stuff. I did cooking in 4-H but it wasn't until I was out of college that I decided I wanted to make this my career.

I am not a chef. I am not even a trained or professional cook. My qualification is as an eater.

Ultimately, I realized that in order to write about food you need to understand everything about cooking, so I moved to New York and enrolled in the Institute of Culinary Education.

I know my way around the kitchen. I like to cook, so I can fry an egg. I guess I could be a fry cook at Bob's Big Boy or something, or maybe a sous chef somewhere a little nicer. I would like to do that. I think I can probably pick that up pretty quickly.

I like cooking, but I don't think I could be a chef. Everyone from the ground up does terrible hours, whether you've just walked in off the street and you've got no experience, to whether you're the head chef. You can work 14 or 15-hour days. It's really, really intense.

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 cook chicken for a living.

I think I could be a cook. Everybody always says I'm good, though I think it's quite gruelling as a profession.

I started cooking in kitchens right out of high school, and I was lucky to work with a lot of great people, but I had no idea it would turn into this. Of course no one should go into this business because they want to be the next Emeril.

When we talk about chefs, we often talk about their love of food or their passion for it, but cooking is also about making a living; it's a job.

It came to me that the one thing I could do was cook. And I figured I couldn't do any worse than the people running these places around town.

The best way to learn to cook is to do some serious eating.

There's a difference between watching a chef show, which doesn't feel like a reality show compared to the Housewives. Those shows can, I think, not only lower your IQ, but really just knock the wind out of you, because we're all here in this business.

I'm quite convinced that cooking is the only alternative to film making. Maybe there's also another alternative, that's walking on foot.

Cooking is at once one of the simplest and most gratifying of the arts, but to cook well one must love and respect food.

Beauty fades, but cooking is eternal.

Women can spin very well; but they cannot make a good book of cookery.

I actually studied cooking and, like, was thinking about becoming a chef.

For years - especially in England where I come from - cooking was a subservient job. When I told my Dad I was going to be a cook, he wouldn't talk to me for two years. Even though it was associated with my military service, he thought cooking was beneath me.

Gastronomy is the French Foreign Legion. You don't need any qualifications. Just walk through the door and keep your head down. Be respectful - "Yes chef!" - and you'll be given a trade. One day you'll be in a position where you can put a roof over your children's heads, you can put food on their table, create security for them.

The receipts of cookery are swelled to a volume; but a good stomach excels them all.

Being a chef is the best job in the world.

I like to cook. I would probably go to culinary school in France if I had time.

Just so [becoming a chef ] that I could support my art habit. You know? I mean, this is - this is something where you've been literally given an opportunity to put the world on pause for a second.