Grant Achatz Quotes & Sayings

“My life has been such a blur since I was 18, 19 years old. I haven't even had time to contemplate my own life. By forcing yourself to write your life story you learn a great deal about yourself.”

“The most luxurious thing to me is having an hour of my day, which rarely happens, to listen to my iPod and sit on my couch. That's how I unwind.”

“I lived my whole life in the kitchen. Not only that, but it's the passion, it's the love for cooking and food. It's dictated my entire life - every aspect of it.”

“Part of becoming a little bit older and having the opportunities that I have, you want to start giving back to people who have been influential and helped you along the way.”

“It's not really the life of cooking that's hard - it's what you make of it and what level you push yourself to.”

“A cookbook is not like being an author. It's writing down recipes; it's not writing.”

“I don't care if you're doing haute cuisine or burgers and pizza, just do it right.”

“Anything that could ever prevent me from achieving a goal, I put in a box, tape it up, throw it over my shoulder. You aim for a goal and attain it. Then you look to the next one.”

“Food can be expressive and therefore food can be art.”

“I had D minuses in chemistry and all of the sciences, and now I'm known as a molecular gastronomist.”