Graham Elliot Quotes

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Graham Elliot

Profession : Chef

Birth : January 4, 1977

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.

Graham Elliot

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.

Graham Elliot

You are defined by your ingredients, by the way you touch them, by the flavors you draw from them.

Graham Elliot

Dining should be something that isn't always taken extremely seriously.

Graham Elliot

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.'

Graham Elliot

I do take pity on some of the people that have to work with me.

Graham Elliot

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.

Graham Elliot

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.

Graham Elliot

I think what somebody orders and how they eat and cook really shows who they are.

Graham Elliot

Any time you can involve fake mustaches, things are just better.

Graham Elliot