Gordon Ramsay

The pressure on young chefs today is far greater than ever before in terms of social skills, marketing skills, cooking skills, personality and, more importantly, delivering on the plate. So you need to be strong. Physically fit. So my chefs get weighed every time they come into the kitchen.

Scottish Chef

Jermell Charlo

We have a personal chef who helps us stay on track, and we really like to keep things the same all year round. We don't want to change anything up too much if it's working. We eat clean and organic as much as we can, and try not to eat too much of anything.

American Boxer

Melania Trump

I don't have a nanny. I have a chef, and I have my assistant, and that's it. I do it myself. You know, those hours with your child are really important ones, even if it's just the two of you, being quiet in the car together.

American First Lady

Jacques Torres

I have spent more time in my life working and being in restaurants than being at home. I immediately feel comfortable entering a restaurant, and I feel even more comfortable in the back with the chef and cooks.

Algerian Chef

John Lasseter

I have met a lot of top chefs around the world during my travels. Each one of them has said 'Ratatouille' is their favorite movie and the only movie that truly captures what they do.

American Director

Jean-Georges Vongerichten

I love cooking, but I love the business, too. It's important because a lot of chefs forget the business side and have to shut down after six months.

French Chef

Joel Robuchon

We the chefs have a responsibility to learn about the chemical makeup of food!

Geoffrey Rush

I always had a fantasy of being a chef, because I like kitchen life.

Australian Actor

Robert Stack

A great chef is an artist that I truly respect.

American Actor

Eric Ripert

Chefs are leaders in their own little world.

The word 'chef' often implies a professional and trained cook in a restaurant, not just any cook.

Professional Setting

Chefs usually also plan menus, manage kitchen staff, and source ingredients.

Not Just Cooking

In a restaurant's kitchen hierarchy, the 'chef' often refers to the chief or head cook.

Highest Rank

This definition may carry a connotation of culinary creativity and skill.

Creativity Implied

The chef is often the leader who guides the kitchen staff and operations.

Leadership Role

A chef's responsibility also includes maintaining high standards of food quality.

Quality Control

A chef typically has formal training in food preparation, unlike a basic cook.

Formal Training

Being a chef means mastering various cooking techniques and kitchen tools.

Varied Skills

In a domestic setting, a chef is responsible for planning and preparing all household meals.

Meal Planning

The term 'chef' can also apply to those cooking in private homes, not just commercial kitchens.

Beyond Restaurants

 feeling very self-important came out and saw the gimmick they had ordered which was I ordered fifty chef hats for every one of their employees and I put that in quotes and they branded on the front cousins cousins cousins and read the fancy guy got out there and he said you know they got to get rid of those hats

Entrepreneurs come from...

 and it would be in bright pink and purple. Very gender-specific colors to females, right? So, it kind of was sending a message that only girls are supposed to cook. Boys aren't. And this discouraged my brother a lot. He thought that he wasn't supposed to want to be a chef. because that was something girls did.

Want to be an activist?...

 What's fascinating for us at the kitchen, is, I think, it's very fair to say that the kitchen was really built on the back of hospitality industry, restaurants, in particular chefs. That's really how the whole thing started and if it wasn't for the incredible support of that community and the belief

The Community of Food PIPE...

 Like, whether, is this going to be Is this going to be my life to cook for the richest people in the world for the rest, fill at least 80 seats every night? And I started to think about, you know, what can a chef do, what is my other purposes. And, my call was that experience,

From Sweden to Harlem: A...

 Then it was rebranded and marketed to chefs in the U.S. as Chilean sea bass, despite the animal actually being a type of cod. Soon it was popping up in markets all over the world and is now a delicacy. Unfortunately, these deep water fish don't reproduce

Will the ocean ever run...

 More grain in a couple of weeks than it would ever get in a lifetime. Its liver expands by eight times. Suffice to say it's like -- it's not the prettiest picture of sustainable farming. The problem for us chefs is that it's so freakin' delicious.

Dan Barber: A surprising...

 really became my laboratory I mean I was first cultivating my ego I was going to be the best chef in the world it didn't work out so well it worked out pretty well but what I ended up realizing is what I really enjoyed about food was

Seafood and Survival PIPE...

 Cho may be Taiwan's most highly respected chef and tonight he will host a very unusual dinner for some very special guests including several of taiwan's top food critics the dish he's chosen to prepare is so taboo it may be

Would You Eat Bull...

 for particular types of food they will have sous chef and sous chefs will have assistants and each person reports it in person above them I think it's all for the better it's great today the kitchen tomorrow the world

The Birth of the Recipe...

 oh oh oh that is rank are they gonna lie down oh what have i done with my life to deserve this i never even wanted to be a teacher you know let's be a chef