Cooking Career Quotes

As a teenager, I spent my days at the beach and nights cooking in Long Island restaurants.

I started preparing meals for my family when I was 12 because both of my parents worked, but I didn't know that it was something I could make a career out of until I had my daughter and realized there were people out there who were interested in learning how to prepare a quick meal.

I started my cooking 'career' aged 15, almost 20 years ago. At the time it was quite a shock suddenly working 75 to 80 hours a week, without time to play football or other sports.

I started cooking 30-something years ago. When I was 14, 15, I was a short-order cook in a snack bar. That was at a place called the Gran Centurions. It was an Italian-American swim club my parents belonged to.

Being a chef is the best job in the world.

I cook chicken for a living.

I always knew I wanted to be a chef.

I ended up wanting to be a cook and hold my own in a restaurant.

The opportunity to be a star chef, to imagine it would be here in Las Vegas, I couldn't comprehend it.

I see a lot of people who change careers in the middle of their life and they think it's a good idea to come in the kitchen.

My journey was never hard; it just happened. From the second I held a knife, from the second I was in culinary school, it's all felt too good to be true. 'This cannot be my job, my life. Somebody has to be kidding with me!'

Larousse is an invaluable tool for any cook. I've used this great resource all throughout my cooking career, and of course I look forward to the new edition. New information and knowledge are always welcome.

I think every young cook wants to write a book.

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.

My career at Microsoft really was getting in the way of my cooking.

I went to L'Academie de Cuisine in Gaithersburg, Maryland, and I think French cooking is the basis for a lot of classical cuisine, a foundation of a lot of other cuisines. That said, it's not the only way to approach a cooking career.

I grew up cooking. I was always in my grandma's cooking, and I never thought of it as a career.

When I was really, really young, I wanted to be a cook at Bob Evans because my parents would always go there every Sunday after church.

Its not about passion. Passion is something that we tend to overemphasize, that we certainly place too much importance on. Passion ebbs and flows. To me, it's about desire. If you have constant, unwavering desire to be a cook, then u'll be a great cook.

You know, from age 17 on, my paycheck was coming from cooking and working in kitchens.

I played from the time I was seven years old. My father was my first baseman coach. I had opportunities that I never really pursued - with some Miami teams and a few larger colleges, and then I ended up bailing and began cooking.

I started cooking when I was 18 years old, and now I have restaurants all over the world.

I had quite a few jobs in Paris before hitting the jackpot and writing cookbooks. One of them was peeling vegetables and prepping other veggie delights at Bob's Juice Bar.