Words matter. These are the best Graham Elliot Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
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.
I think what somebody orders and how they eat and cook really shows who they are.
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.
Weight is something I’ve battled all my life.
I only wear red socks in the kitchen. They bring me luck.
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.
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.
I’m a traditionalist, so for me, black coffee is cool.
I’m in love with ‘pure’ flavors, things that are natural and delicious, minimally fussed with, that showcase the season.
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.
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.’
Kosher salt, eggs and flour. These are the building blocks of everything. Kosher salt, above and beyond everything.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Even though I live in and love Chicago, I can’t stand deep-dish pizza. I’m a New York-style pizza person.
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.
You are defined by your ingredients, by the way you touch them, by the flavors you draw from them.
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.
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.
