Anne Burrell
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.Collection: Food
I started in the restaurant business at the age of 19 as a waitress. I loved the atmosphere and the camaraderie of the restaurant business. I loved not having to go to an office. I loved making people happy.Collection: Age
At home, my food is just sort of comfort food. It's not super fancy, but it's certainly tasty.Collection: Home
I love the simplicity, the ingredients, the culture, the history and the seasonality of Italian cuisine. In Italy people do not travel. They cook the way grandma did, using fresh ingredients and what is available in season.Collection: Travel
Part of being successful is about asking questions and listening to the answers.
Always in my house, I have almonds, hummus, Triscuits, and cheddar cheese. It takes me back to childhood. My go-to meal would probably be pasta.
I always use my 'Holy Trinity' which is salt, olive oil and bacon. My motto is, 'bacon always makes it better.' I try to use bacon and pork products whenever it can.
You don't go into being a chef for the money.
I'm always a big fan of a big pot of chicken soup. I like to make a big pot of that, and I keep it in my freezer so when I come off the road and I just want to sit in my pajamas on my couch and catch up on the DVR and dig into a nice big bowl of chicken soup. It feeds my soul.
Tough love is exactly what it sounds like.
If you want to be a home cook, just have fun with it. Pick up a couple cookbooks. You're gonna make some mistakes; just go in and try it.
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.
Taste as you go. When you taste the food throughout the cooking process you can make adjustments as you go.
After two undefeated seasons of 'Worst Cooks in America,' I'm ready for a third. Going against Bobby Flay takes the challenge to another level, but I'm ready to whip these contestants into shape and the winner is sure to be from Team Burrell.
I love hot dogs.
My food, I think, is big. It's aggressive, it's aggressively seasoned, and it's hearty.
My least favorite ingredient to cook with is black pepper.
If I'm having a party, the easiest and the biggest thing for me to make is a big pot of meatballs.
I love doing 'Worst Cooks' so very much.
Growing up, we always had a big garden, and it just gave me the passion and appreciation for really good food.
I love meeting new people.
I've never been anything than a blond my whole life. There was one time when I dyed the ends pink. My father said if I ever did that again, he'd shave my head and keep me home 'til it grew back.
It's a life choice to be a girl chef, as it is to be a boy chef. It feels pretty natural to me. It's a full-time, full-scale, full physical job, and a lot of times, it can take the place of kids and family. To be in this career is much more difficult for a woman to have a family, marriage - whatever that means. It's not a 9-5 job.
I started waiting tables in college and realized how much I loved the business and loved to cook. I decided to go to culinary school and never looked back.
Definitely, in any teaching situation, there are the clueless students; then there are the ones who get it a little quicker.
I feel like I can teach anyone to cook a dinner.
My mom was a great cook and also a very creative cook.
I adore my mother, and I am probably a chef because of my mother. She was adventurous.
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.
The margins for restaurants to make money are very, very narrow. It's a tough business, and to be a chef is a little bit masochistic.
The Anne you see on TV is me; I don't have an on-camera persona.
I believe that there is always something new to learn, in fact, that is one of the three reasons that I chose to become a chef, that my education is never over.Collection: Believe
I think people need more to do in their life if my hair pisses them off.Collection: Thinking
I believe that if you have good organizational skills, then creativity can come out of that, but it's hard to be really creative when everything is a mess. And in a restaurant, organizational skills are imperative.Collection: Believe
Organizing ahead of time makes the work more enjoyable.Collection: Enjoyable
My mom was a great cook so I always wanted to eat and make stuff. I did cooking in 4-H but it wasn't until I was out of college that I decided I wanted to make this my career.Collection: Mom
There are so many things that you think will look cool but then you look like an idiot!Collection: Thinking
There are many places that people can produce really good food. I wouldn't limit it to an area of the country, it's what the chefs have in them.Collection: Country
My hair is always a big topic. It is just hair.Collection: Hair
It's not sticky unless it touches itself.Collection: Chef