Quotes by Tom Colicchio

Tom Colicchio

‘Chef’ doesn’t mean that you’re the best cook, it simply means ‘boss.’

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Chef

Mean

As a chef, I had started working with groups like Share Our Strength and various local food banks in New York, raising money for hunger-related issues. And not only me, but the entire restaurant industry has been very focused on this issue.

Groups

Issues

New York

Every chef should have an understanding of pastries or desserts.

Chef

Should Have

Understanding

Hunger is a political issue, and there are several things politically that are keeping people hungry – not funding food stamps adequately, not funding school lunches adequately. So there is a political solution to the problem of hunger.

Issues

Lunch

School

I call all chefs cooks. They’re all cooks. That’s what we do, we cook. You’re a chef when you’re running a kitchen.

Chef

Kitchen

Running

I can’t deal with a lot of spice but I have to eat it. I pay the price – I’m on medication for heartburn, so that’s how I deal with it.

Medication

Pay The Price

Spices

I can’t deliver lines, but I can talk about food all night long.

Lines

Long

Night

I don’t really like money – I like the things you can buy with money.

I hate okra and grated mountain yam for the same reason. They’re both slimy.

Hate

Mountain

Yams

I know from personal experience, if a chef yelled at me in a kitchen, the first thing I’d want to do is hit them with a pot.

Firsts

Kitchen

Want

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Keys

Kitchen

Law

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Long

Lunch

Mean

Medication

Men

Mountain

Moving

Mushrooms

New York

Nice

Night

Nitrogen

Pay The Price

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Quotes by Tom Colicchio

Tom Colicchio

‘Chef’ doesn’t mean that you’re the best cook, it simply means ‘boss.’

As a chef, I had started working with groups like Share Our Strength and various local food banks in New York, raising money for hunger-related issues. And not only me, but the entire restaurant industry has been very focused on this issue.

Every chef should have an understanding of pastries or desserts.

Hunger is a political issue, and there are several things politically that are keeping people hungry – not funding food stamps adequately, not funding school lunches adequately. So there is a political solution to the problem of hunger.

I call all chefs cooks. They’re all cooks. That’s what we do, we cook. You’re a chef when you’re running a kitchen.

I can’t deal with a lot of spice but I have to eat it. I pay the price – I’m on medication for heartburn, so that’s how I deal with it.

I can’t deliver lines, but I can talk about food all night long.

I don’t really like money – I like the things you can buy with money.

I hate okra and grated mountain yam for the same reason. They’re both slimy.

I know from personal experience, if a chef yelled at me in a kitchen, the first thing I’d want to do is hit them with a pot.

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