The Best Chef Quotes Ever? A New Book Compiles The Crème De La Crème.

Nach Waxman and Matt Sartwell run Kitchen Arts and Letters in New York City.[/caption]

Here's a book for passionate cooks that contains no recipes or food porn whatsoever. Instead, it's full of quotes from chefs around the world and across time. The pocketable The Chef Says, to be released September 2, was compiled by Matt Sartwell and Nach Waxman, who run New York City's Kitchen Arts & Letters bookstore, a incredibly curated shop which offers 13,000 food and drink-related titles. Surrounded by these books, and having conversed with plenty of food industry folks over the years, Sartwell and Waxman set out to pull together a selection of quotes for the book. Waxman also delved into his home library of rare, older books. "We wanted a global range, not just American chefs, and we wanted to highlight a diversity of opinions," says Sartwell, who joined the store eight years after Waxman founded it in 1983.

Running the bookstore had exposed Sartwell and Waxman to a variety of opinions and approaches to the chef profession, and they felt it was important to represent this range. Where one respected chef prefers to do things a certain way, another revered chef professes a completely different approach.