Marcus Samuelsson Chef Quotations

They say never trust a skinny chef, but the fact is, to stay healthy when you're a chef means you have to work twice as hard.

Taking dishes straight off the restaurant's menu and putting them into a cookbook doesn't work, because as a chef you have your own vision of what your food is, but you can't always explain it. Or you can't pick recipes that best illustrate who and where you are and what you're doing. And if the recipes don't work, you don't have a book.

It will always be trendy to do the right thing with food.

As a chef and activist, I'm particularly concerned with food politics issues such as the farm bill.