Anne Burrell

“Organizing ahead of time makes the work more enjoyable. Chefs cut up the onions and have the ingredients lined up ahead of time and have them ready to go. When everything is organized you can clean as you go and it makes everything so much easier and fun.”

“I adore my mother, and I am probably a chef because of my mother. She was adventurous.”

“My food, I think, is big. It's aggressive, it's aggressively seasoned, and it's hearty.”

“Tough love is exactly what it sounds like.”

“The Anne you see on TV is me; I don't have an on-camera persona.”

“Not every chef is a yeller, but I have to say that even a chef who is not a yeller might have a time when that rule might get broken.”

“Definitely, in any teaching situation, there are the clueless students; then there are the ones who get it a little quicker.”

“Taste as you go. When you taste the food throughout the cooking process you can make adjustments as you go.”

“I'm a girl, and I'm a cook- I just like to cook, and I don't like to worry about the distinctions. We're just supposed to make good food.”