Wylie Dufresne Quotes

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

The role of a chef isn't to reinvent dishes but to tweak.

I wanted to write about what we were doing at the French Laundry, the recipes and the stories.

I love to cook. I make an award-winning turkey chili.

I'm a decent cook, and I will try to cook anything. My only weakness is that I don't know servings - I only know how to make a lot.

Preparing food is not just about yourself and others. It is about everything!

I find cooking very therapeutic. As a creative person, I relish cooking because it's such a creative process. You can cook anything out of anything.

If you want to become a great chef, you have to work with great chefs. And that's exactly what I did.

Your idea of that dish has evolved, and if you're a cook, you can start thinking in different ways about it, maybe even a different way than I think about it.

My grandfather was a great chef.

I'm always changing my work, as there are endless ways to think about food.

I really feel I have found myself as a chef. It's very clear to me what I want to do - and how it should taste.

A cookbook is a moment in time because, otherwise, you look back at the end of the day, and all the meals have been eaten, and the experience is gone.

It is a religious duty for those who cook to learn how to prepare food in different ways, hygienically, for the table, so that it may be eaten with enjoyment.

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

I learned so much from 'Iron Chef' about ingredients, about the courage to put yourself out there.

No self-respecting Southerner will eat something baked, broiled, grilled, stewed, poached, sauteed, or flambeed when it can be deep fried.

I grew up in a house where I was a spectator to the sport of cooking. In that way, I just learned so much about what it really takes to make food.

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

I'm actually a really good cook, and people don't believe this about me!

I've never cooked a great meal.

I wasn't a great cook, but I was a passionate one.

As a self-proclaimed cooking disaster, I try to makes things that I think I can easily master.

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.'

I always liked the stress, the real high-stakes, get-the-orders-out line-cook job, as well as the ordering of the produce and everything - it's really similar to making music for a show like 'Hannibal.' It's like cooking; it's just like owning a restaurant.