Who is Guy Fieri
Guy Fieri was actually born Guy Ferry on the 22nd January 1968 but changed his name later in his life to honour his paternal grandfather, who emigrated from Italy. He is an American restauranteur, author and television chef who owns a string of restaurants in California, as well as licensing others in New York and Las Vegas.
He continued to open restaurants across America after his first in 1996 and the majority opened to acclaim with the notable exception of the very public criticism of his New York restaurant Guy’s American Kitchen and Bar.
In the mid-2000s, Fieri’s focus turned to television, winning a six-episode series on the Food Network. He continued to work with the Food Network, releasing new series and eventually became the face of the network, bringing a new style to the network and drawing an audience of primarily male viewers, that they had historically struggled with in the past.
A widely respected chef and presenter, we have collected some of Fieri’s most inspirational and interesting quotes to provide an insight into the man who is the face of food on Americas Food Network.
Guy Fieri Quotes
1. Food is not just eating energy. It’s an experience.
2. I’m not doing anything for anybody. I’m doing what I do
3. There are races and then there are races. And without a doubt, the Indy 500 is the race that I’ve always wanted to attend. And now, to be driving the Corvette Pace Car… this is going to be unbelievable.
4. Cooking with kids is not just about ingredients, recipes, and cooking. It’s about harnessing imagination, empowerment, and creativity.
5. If you’re cooking and not making mistakes, you’re not playing outside your safety zone. I don’t expect it all to be good. I have fat dogs because I scrap that stuff out the back door.
6. Cooking is like snow skiing: If you don’t fall at least 10 times, then you’re not skiing hard enough.
7. Short of screaming-hot Thai food, everything can be suitable for kids too
8. It’s always good to go over the recipe beforehand, so you can easily think of the next thing that needs to be done.
9. Preparing food is one of life’s great joys, but a lot of times, parents ask their kids if they want to cook with them and then tell them to go peel a bag of potatoes. That’s not cooking – that’s working!
10. My restaurant, Tex Wasabi’s, we have a whole ‘Minute to Win It’ challenge going on on Sundays already. The show hasn’t even aired and they’re already doing challenges where people are coming and participating. I think it’s going to take over.
11. I was always a kid trying to make a buck. I borrowed a dollar from my dad, went to the penny candy store, bought a dollar’s worth of candy, set up my booth, and sold candy for five cents apiece. Ate half my inventory, made $2.50, gave my dad back his dollar.
12. If you slow it down, eat in courses, your body, mind, stomach will catch up with this full feeling and you won’t eat as much.
13. Losing my sister to cancer was… That was the worst thing in the world, man.
14. I don’t know what singers feel like when they make a song and people clap along and love it, but when people walk up to me and say the food was outstanding, that’s what it is all about. I cook because I like to make people happy.
15. I’m a five-seasons griller! Did you know I added a new season? Living in Cali, I’m cooking in the yard all the time. I don’t care what the weather is like. My hair is impervious to any kind of dampness, so I don’t have too much to worry about.
16. Some people are just born to cook and talk.
17. No matter how tough the meat may be, it’s going to be tender if you slice it thin enough.
18.Kids want to saute, to cut the pizza, to see how the ingredients come together. If you let them do the fun stuff, they’ll develop skills and interests that will stay with them forever.
19. Liver is my number one most hated food. Oh, God, I get sick talking about it!
20. My stay-married secret would probably be exercising good communication, not when you have to but all the time. I think if you do that, you kinda just cleanse the situations, so there’s not build up. I think that’s probably the best way to do it
21. You have to be confident in who you are and what you’re doing. Of course, you try to evolve. I would never tell you, ‘Today is the best I will ever be.’ I’m always trying to be a better chef, a better dad, a better person
22. There’s nothing that can replicate the smoky flavor of char, so when I’ve got the hankering for it, I tell my wife that I’m taking care of dinner. I have three different types of barbecues – a coal, gas and smoker – so I can experiment a lot.
23. I think anyone that grew up in the ’70s and ’80s grew up with Bob Barker and Wink Martindale and I think that was just always… when you were a game show host, you were the man of the hour.
24. You don’t have to eat a whole cheeseburger, just take a piece of the cheeseburger.
25. I’m a big fan of doing ‘Triple D.’ But I don’t want to do it forever, don’t get me wrong! Travel away from my family, are you crazy? But do you know what it does for these mom-and-pop restaurant joints? It changes their lives forever. I mean, their businesses will never be the same.
26. Cooking is all about people. Food is maybe the only universal thing that really has the power to bring everyone together. No matter what culture, everywhere around the world, people get together to eat.
27. In Japanese, sushi does not mean raw fish. It means seasoned rice.
28. What you see is what you get with me. There’s no show.
29. There are two different things: there’s grilling, and there’s barbecue. Grilling is when people say, ‘We’re going to turn up the heat, make it really hot and sear a steak, sear a burger, cook a chicken.’ Barbecue is going low and slow.
30. I’m not a greasy food guy. I don’t eat like that.
31. I can’t bake anything. I’m the worst. My cakes always come out flat.
32.The wok is one of my favorite things to work with when I’m camping. Outdoor cooking is not just about hot dogs and hamburgers. There are so many styles of food you can make.
33. I’m not a celebrity chef. I’m a chef that happens to have television shows and a chef that happens to do media.
34. If you’ve really got a problem with me, and you came and told me you had a problem with me, I’d be interested to listen to you. But if you’re just some loser that sits there and hammers away on some blog form or whatever, I don’t have time for that. Why even worry about it?
35. Growing up in Northern California, I’ve only seen snow at Christmas maybe twice in my life! I was always jealous of my cousins on the East Coast with their white Christmases.
36. When I was 12, we began hosting exchange students from Norway, Sweden, Japan and Spain. I soon realized there was a whole world out there. I was determined to spend my sophomore year in high school abroad. My school taught only Spanish, but I wanted to go to France, and I did.
37. My spiked hair goes back about 15 years ago. I had long, curly rocker hair then. The woman who cuts my hair thought I needed a new style, so I let her surprise me. I flipped when I first saw it, but I soon realized the look was really me. I’ve always been a little crazy.
38. I love to exercise. I’m a big hiker, and I like boxing. I mean, I love a good burger, but I keep things in moderation
39. After a show, people say, ‘I bet you want to just sit back and relax.’ No way. First thing I want to do when I’m home is cook.
40. There’s been quite a few conversations between me and my wife; she’d like to see my hair brown again. So who knows what will happen.
41. In Japanese, sushi does not mean raw fish. It means seasoned rice.
42. What you see is what you get with me. There’s no show.
43. There are two different things: there’s grilling, and there’s barbecue. Grilling is when people say, ‘We’re going to turn up the heat, make it really hot and sear a steak, sear a burger, cook a chicken.’
Barbecue is going low and slow.
44. I’m not a greasy food guy. I don’t eat like that.
45. I can’t bake anything. I’m the worst. My cakes always come out flat.
46. The wok is one of my favorite things to work with when I’m camping. Outdoor cooking is not just about hot dogs and hamburgers. There are so many styles of food you can make.
47. I’m not a celebrity chef. I’m a chef that happens to have television shows and a chef that happens to do media.
48. If you’ve really got a problem with me, and you came and told me you had a problem with me, I’d be interested to listen to you. But if you’re just some loser that sits there and hammers away on some blog form or whatever, I don’t have time for that. Why even worry about it?
49. Growing up in Northern California, I’ve only seen snow at Christmas maybe twice in my life! I
was always jealous of my cousins on the East Coast with their white Christmases.
50. When I was 12, we began hosting exchange students from Norway, Sweden, Japan and Spain. I
soon realized there was a whole world out there. I was determined to spend my sophomore year in high school abroad. My school taught only Spanish, but I wanted to go to France, and I did.
51. I love to exercise. I’m a big hiker, and I like boxing. I mean, I love a good burger, but I keep things in moderation
52. After a show, people say, ‘I bet you want to just sit back and relax.’ No way. First thing I want to do when I’m home is cook.
53. There’s been quite a few conversations between me and my wife; she’d like to see my hair brown again. So who knows what will happen.
54. My parents were all into macrobiotic cooking and natural cooking, and my sister was a vegetarian. I wasn’t down with that.
55. Get off the beaten path… If you want to find those mom-and-pop joints, those funky little places, just ask around
56. I was raised with hippie parents, so I get down with the positive. I don’t pay attention to the negative.
57. At first, people think about vegetarian food like, ‘Here’s some veggies. Here’s some pasta.’ But there’s so much more you can do in the vegetarian and vegan world.
58. My parents moved out to California in 1968 from Ohio in a VW station wagon pulling a little trailer. I was 4 months old. They were following the energy out here.
59. I have my own boat, but when I first thought about taking a cruise, I thought, ‘You’re going to trap me on a boat, and I’m going to walk in circles and go crazy,’ but it’s awesome.
60. I always tell my family – and they laugh about it – but someday, I will write a vegetarian book. My cousin, who’s a big vegetarian, tells me flat out, ‘You’re my favorite vegetarian chef.’
