What is the best Quote you have ever heard from a "Chef"!

"Find something you're passionate about and keep tremendously interested in it."

Julia Child

"I would much rather be a chef who remembers I am a cook then a cook that thinks I am a chef."

Richard (Ric) Peterson

"Cooking is at once child's play and adult joy. And cooking done with care is an act of love."

Craig Claiborne

"The duty of a good cuisinier is to transmit to the next generation everything he has learned and experienced."

Fernand Point

 

"Long Hair, Short Brain"
-Hartwig Petautschnig

 

"sh** burnt my arm again" anon

 

From my pastry instructor, "you guys are all outstanding in your field, just like a farmer"

From another instructor " It all depends on how you hold your face"
" It's only the first 144 dozen that give you problems"(talking about tourning vegetables)

 

That is so fuuny CoolJ! So is your new signature.

 

Thanks Isabelle !!

 

In order to be the best, you must be able to do everything everyone else can do. Anonymus.

 

"If you can't stand the heat, clean the walk-in."

 

From my fist Chef, a tough Dubliner:

"You rest when your dead!"

 

"Food - Sustanance, Adventure and Conversation"

Peter Gordon's(of "Suger Club") grandmother

 

when an ill-prepared garde-manger was on his knees, head in the reach-in telling chef he was looking for and item on a first course going up:

chef comments from down the line "should you be looking for a new job while you're in there?"


painfully methodical but likeable prep cook when sous chef pressuring to complete a task:

"don't harsh my mellow"

 

My Chef Tutor sums it up

"If it ain't hot it ain't cooking"

:bounce:

Barb

 

1. Think of this as a character builder

2. Cooking is the application of heat and common sense.

3. Quick...get me the lobster gun!!

So many more quotes......so many sources

 

"...when you have made as many mistakes as I have then you can be as good as me..."

Wolfgang Puck

" I am not in the food business serving people, I am in the people business serving food"

 

"There is always time to do everything ONCE".

 

ARE YOU BUSY ? WELL THEN I SUGGEST YOU WORK A LITTLE
F*^*ING FASTER .

ARE YOU COLD ? WELL WORK FASTER , IT WILL HELP TO WARM YOU UP .

ARE YOU HOT ? WELL WORK FASTER , THE BREEZE WILL HELP TO COOL YOU DOWN .

AND THE BEAT GOES ON ...........................

 

Proper prior planning prevents persistent piss poor performance

 

From my Rifle Instructor in High School...
"If it is to be, it is up to me!"

 

Please see the quote of Owen meredith in the home page of
www.chefsoundar.com