#chef

All the great chefs I know - Thomas Keller, Jean-Georges Vongerichten - they are technicians first. ↗

— Jacques Pepin

#first #great #i #keller #know

I was chef to the French Presidents between '56 and '59, finished with de Gaulle, and during de Gaulle I remember serving Eisenhower, Nehru, Tito, Macmillan; those were the heads of state at the time. I never saw anyone. No one would ever, ever, ever come to the kitchen. You couldn't even see them. ↗

— Jacques Pepin

#between #chef #come #during #eisenhower

Just because I am a chef doesn't mean I don't rely on fast recipes. Indeed, we all have moments when, pressed for time, we'll use a can of tuna and a tomato for a first course. It's a question of choosing the right recipes for the rest of the menu. ↗

— Jacques Pepin

#because #chef #choosing #course #fast

My mother likes what I cook, but doesn't think it's French. My wife is Puerto Rican and Cuban, so I eat rice and beans. We have a place in Mexico, but people think I'm the quintessential French chef. ↗

— Jacques Pepin

#chef #cook #cuban #eat #french

Probably a mistake, you know, that people make in America, to think that all great chefs are a male... I'm still the only male in the family who went into that business. ↗

— Jacques Pepin

#business #chefs #family #great #i

You know, my parents had a restaurant. And I left home, actually, in 1949, when I was 13 years old, to go into apprenticeship. And actually when I left home, home was a restaurant - like I said, my mother was a chef. So I can't remember any time in my life, from age 5, 6, that I wasn't in a kitchen. ↗

— Jacques Pepin

#age #any #apprenticeship #chef #go

I think every chef, not just in America, but across the world, has a double-edged sword - two jackets, one that's driven, a self-confessed perfectionist, thoroughbred, hate incompetence and switch off the stove, take off the jacket and become a family man. ↗

— Gordon Ramsay

#america #become #chef #double-edged #double-edged sword

As a soccer player, I wanted an FA Cup winner's medal. As an actor you want an Oscar. As a chef it's three-Michelin's stars, there's no greater than that. So pushing yourself to the extreme creates a lot of pressure and a lot of excitement, and more importantly, it shows on the plate. ↗

— Gordon Ramsay

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I am the most unselfish chef in Britain today. ↗

— Gordon Ramsay

#britain #chef #i #i am #most

I don't think it's a good advert for any restaurant, a fat chef, and secondly, who wants to eat a dessert when the chef's a fat pig. ↗

— Gordon Ramsay

#any #chef #dessert #eat #fat