Chef

🇺🇸Anthony Bourdain

boiling

1956–2018

"You have to love a town where you can both smoke and gamble in a pharmacy."

🇺🇸Thomas Keller

Literature

b. 1955

"I think that you’ve got to make something that pleases you and hope that other people feel the same way."

🇺🇸Isa Chandra Moskowitz

Literature

b. 1973

"They say that black-eyed peas bring you luck when eaten on New Year's Day, and New Year's is also the time of year many people go vegan, so not only will you be lucky, so will the animals!"

🇺🇸Danny Kaye

Entertainment

1911–1987

"Life is a blank canvas, and you need to throw all the paint on it you can."

"I was called up in 1942. Having been born in Berlin, schooled in Devon, London and Berkshire, and lived in Suffolk, I ended up in the Highland Light Infantry."

🇺🇸Rachael Ray

Business

b. 1968

"Rachael Ray does to food what Hitler did to Poland." Attributed to credentialed chef Anthony Bourdain."

🇺🇸Mark Bittman

Journalism

b. 1950

"Video: Voting with your mouth with Mark Bittman and Ezra Klein"

🇬🇧Marco Pierre White

b. 1961

"Most chefs, unfortunately, cook by numbers. It doesn't come from within. Molecular cuisine is basically branding food. There's nothing new to it. Its foundation is still classical."

"They ignore basic truths, we don't even have a basement."