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My grandfather was a great chef.

You're getting to know who the great chefs are through their books.

Chefs are nutters. They're all self-obsessed, delicate, dainty, insecure little souls and absolute psychopaths. Every last one of them.

Very good cooks who are employed as 'chefs' rarely refer to themselves as 'chefs.' They refer to themselves as 'cooks.'

I think 'Chef' is about somebody who's in the middle of his life, and he's kind of lost his passion and his voice, so he seeks out some refinement and redemption.

First of all, I can't really claim to be a great chef.

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

A great chef is an artist that I truly respect.

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.