{"quotes":[{"text":"I have dreams of becoming a professional pastry chef and having a little bakery - that's how much I love baking. I love to cook in general, but my heart lies in desserts.","author":"Kim Barnouin","tags":["love","heart","chef "],"id":1369,"author_id":"Kim+Barnouin"},{"text":"A burnt and experienced hands are more important than the vessels in the kitchen.","author":"Nikita Dudani","tags":["chef","cook","food","foodie","kitchen"],"id":12343,"author_id":"Nikita+Dudani"},{"text":"If you want to become a great chef, you have to work with great chefs. And that's exactly what I did.","author":"Gordon Ramsay","tags":["great","chef","want "],"id":13737,"author_id":"Gordon+Ramsay"},{"text":"The hardest thing about being a full time chef is leaving my work behind when I go home at night. I'll toss and turn about a menu item or forget to order produce and wake up at 4 A.M. In a cold sweat over some artichokes.","author":"Alexandra Guarnaschelli","tags":["work","time","chef "],"id":20411,"author_id":"Alexandra+Guarnaschelli"},{"text":"At the end of the day, it seems like there's a critic archetype for food movies, like with 'Ratatouille' or anything. You know, if you were doing a puppet show about chefs, one puppet would be the chef, one would be the critic.","author":"Jon Favreau","tags":["day","end","chef "],"id":23231,"author_id":"Jon+Favreau"},{"text":"You hit a certain age and - especially because of TV - the young cooks coming up say, 'You're a sellout, because you're doing something other than what you should be doing.' 'Top Chef' is a double-edged sword for me: There's a whole group of people who will not come to the restaurants because they assume I'm not in them anymore, all I do is TV.","author":"Tom Colicchio","tags":["chef","me","people "],"id":30103,"author_id":"Tom+Colicchio"},{"text":"Cooking is not difficult. Everyone has taste, even if they don't realize it. Even if you're not a great chef, there's nothing to stop you understanding the difference between what tastes good and what doesn't.","author":"Gerard Depardieu","tags":["great","cooking","chef "],"id":34473,"author_id":"Gerard+Depardieu"},{"text":"Why don't you like the foods I like?' he asks sometimes. 'Why don't you like the foods I make?' I answer.","author":"Lydia Davis","tags":["chef","cooking","cuisine","diet","food","foods","taste","vegan","vegetarian"],"id":51925,"author_id":"Lydia+Davis"},{"text":"People come up to me all the time and ask how I stay the way I am, and it's no secret. The first lesson a chef needs to learn is how to handle a knife; the second is how to be around all that food.","author":"Marcus Samuelsson","tags":["time","i am","chef "],"id":60602,"author_id":"Marcus+Samuelsson"},{"text":"When I was a kid, I have two dreams. I want to be a baseball player. Hometown, Hiroshima, has a Japanese baseball franchise team called Hiroshima Carps. You know, and then I want to be a sushi chef. I want to make own restaurant - sushi restaurant.","author":"Masaharu Morimoto","tags":["team","baseball","chef "],"id":75339,"author_id":"Masaharu+Morimoto"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":64,"pages":7,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}