Quotes by Graham Elliot - Page 1

People love kids and kids like to cook.
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Kids
Kids Love
People
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Weight is something I've battled all my life.
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Life My Life Something
All My Life
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I'm a traditionalist, so for me, black coffee is cool.
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Cool
Black
Black Coffee
Coffee
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I only wear red socks in the kitchen. They bring me luck.
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Luck
Socks
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I do take pity on some of the people that have to work with me.
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Pity
Work Me People
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Any time you can involve fake mustaches, things are just better.
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Fake
Involve
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Dining should be something that isn't always taken extremely seriously.
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Dining
Taken
Extremely
Seriously
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I think what somebody orders and how they eat and cook really shows who they are.
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Orders
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You are defined by your ingredients, by the way you touch them, by the flavors you draw from them.
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Defined
Ingredients
Flavors
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I tried to start my own religion in high school. I was very eccentric. I've always loved attention.
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Eccentric
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I think with the kids I get to be a little more fun and goofy, which is kinda how I am all the time.
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Kids
Fun
Thinking
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Even though I live in and love Chicago, I can't stand deep-dish pizza. I'm a New York-style pizza person.
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Chicago
Pizza
Love Live New
Love New Live
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Kosher salt, eggs and flour. These are the building blocks of everything. Kosher salt, above and beyond everything.
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Building Blocks
Eggs
Flour
Salt
Blocks
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I can't just sit all day on the couch and expect the weight to come off. My goals are my new focus instead of food.
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All Day
Couch
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I don't get to watch a lot of TV. I just do all my news and reading and "Meet the Press," all that fun, exciting stuff.
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Fun
Reading
Watches
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I'm in love with 'pure' flavors, things that are natural and delicious, minimally fussed with, that showcase the season.
Graham Elliot / Chef
Delicious
Pure
Showcase
Flavors
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I played the guitar and thought that was what I was going to do as a career. I still record music that is played in my restaurants.
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Restaurants
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Food to me, in one word, is 'creativity' or 'expression.' It's simply, 'This is who I am at this point in time, and this is what I want to cook for you.'
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One Word
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I really see food as subjective. It's a creative outlet. It's something that you do for fun. It's a gray area. It's not black and white or right and wrong.
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Black And White
Creative
Fun
Gray Area
Subjective
Creative Outlet
Outlet
Right And Wrong
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I have two bookcases that used to be filled with cookbooks, but now it's mostly books about politics and government. I might just give this all up and run for office.
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Filled
Cookbooks
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I think that expression is so great. So I'll look at someone like Prince, and one reason to lose weight is so I can rock that purple velvet outfit with the white frilly shirt.
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Purple
Velvet
Outfit
Shirt
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I think the big things for me are trying to keep running and staying active, but not forcing to do one hour or five miles but really going out and doing it until you feel good.
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Active
Big Things
Feel Good
Miles
Staying
Good Me Feel Good
Good Me Feel
Forcing
Good Feel Good Me
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My dad was in the Navy, so we moved around a lot. That led to me seeing myriad cultures and cuisines. I have been excited about eating and cooking for as long as I can remember.
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Dad
Cooking
Long
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I think that baseball as a whole, I am a huge romantic when it comes to the history and the stats and the numbers the stories behind it, so I would consider myself a pretty big fan.
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Numbers
Big Fan
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I think that people are getting really excited about different ethnic food, and almost even micro-ethnic food. So it's not just, 'I love Asian,' it's Szechuan or Hunan, this one style from China.
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Love Food People
Ethnic
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I'd love to open a restaurant that changes every month. One month it would be a mom and bar spaghetti-and-meatball, Red Sox place, and the next it would be a British pub, and everyone gets in a fight.
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Month
Bar
Pub
Red Sox
Sox
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I'm inspired by artists who use a limited palette, like painter Piet Mondrian, and the White Stripes, two musicians who create an incredible sound. Our food is starting to go back to a 'less is more' style.
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Less Is More
Painter
Stripes
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Kids see cooking as a creative outlet now, like soccer and ballet. It gives me hope that things like fast food, childhood obesity and the horrible state of school lunches can be addressed by kids and their parents.
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Ballet
Cooking
Fast Food
Horrible
Obesity
Soccer
Creative Outlet
Outlet
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I think that for me, growing up, my dad was in the Navy; we went all over the world. I love things the weirder the better. The idea I could eat things like snails or frogs legs or things like that was mind-blowingly cool.
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Frogs
Legs
Navy
Cool Love Dad
Weirder
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Gray means being open-minded. I always look at the world that way; I'm able to hear both sides of an argument. I don't listen to opera, but I don't think it's good or bad; it's just its own thing. I can completely appreciate it.
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Both Sides
Gray
Open Minded
Opera
Sides
Good Always World
Good Look World
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I've traveled all over. I've been to all 50 states. With my dad in the Navy, I lived in the Philippines from nine to 12, and I had dog, monkey, lizard, everything. Then I was in Hawaii, and I'm spear-fishing, catching octopus with my hands.
Graham Elliot / Chef
Dad
Catching
Dog
Hands
Hawaii
Navy
Nine
Octopus
Philippines
States
Traveled
Lived
Monkey
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Chicago's always been known as this meat and potatoes place, and a lot of restaurants play that up. They try to outdo each other by adding another 10 ounces, so their 80 ounce steak becomes a 90 ounce steak with 10 pounds of mashed potatoes on the side.
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Chicago
Mashed Potatoes
Meat
Potatoes
Pounds
Restaurants
Steak
Adding
Ounce
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Barbecue is the good old technique of people making a fire and putting some stuff over the top - I mean, look at the S'more: it's just got a stick. A lot of those goofy toys, it's people who are looking at things to do. I think if you focus on the food, at the most you need tongs or a spoon to flip something; that's about it.
Graham Elliot / Chef
Barbecue
Flip
Goofy
Technique
Toys
Stick
Spoon
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