So, when I was about eight, I told my mother that I wanted to be a chef - and a police man, too. I didn't totally know that was it at the time, but I was very attracted to it from the beginning. I liked the idea of working with people in a kitchen, of dealing with ingredients, all of it.

Dominique Crenn

Sustainability is one of my biggest passions. I have two little girls, twins, and I lie awake at night worrying about what the world will look like for them.

Dominique Crenn

Meat's effect on climate change simply cannot be ignored.

Dominique Crenn

Well, I don't think I'm a chef. I'm just someone that... I found a way of speaking. It was not a pen. It was not a brush. It was food.

Dominique Crenn

Eating is an act of activism for me; it's politics.

Dominique Crenn

I'm French, I know how to cook.

Dominique Crenn

I've participated at summits where I was the only chef. I was surrounded with thinkers and writers and innovators.

Dominique Crenn

Look, I'm human. Sometimes I'm struggling, sometimes I'm hurting, sometimes I have feelings, sometimes I'm heartbroken. I try to do good in the world even when I'm very sad.

Dominique Crenn

When you give someone an award and you tell them that they are the best female chef in the world, you alienate them from their peers.

Dominique Crenn

I think I was eight or nine when I had my first long-form tasting menu.

Dominique Crenn

I've met a lot of people who were resistant to my ideas, because they were afraid to get into unfamiliar conversations. I didn't listen to them.

Dominique Crenn

Cooking is just a vehicle to express yourself, like painting and acting... The reason why we're cooking is not because we want to put something on the plate. It's so much more complex than that.

Dominique Crenn

When you are adopted and you realize that someone gave you a gift, you pay attention to things very clearly. You realize how lucky you are.

Dominique Crenn

As a young girl, being a chef did not cross my mind - I wanted to conquer the world. I wanted to play with my brother and the boys. I wanted to be a famous photographer.

Dominique Crenn

Everyone should watch 'Supersize Me' to realize how much our physical health is connected to the food we eat.

Dominique Crenn

I came to the U.S. in the 1990s. I worked all around, including at Stars, and in 1996, I became the chef of Yoyo Bistro, which used to be Elka. During my one-year tenure there, I met a lot of French chefs at the time.

Dominique Crenn

It's funny: not too many people used to think that Brittany was a culinary treasure, but there's such amazing stuff. Beef and pork, of course, but the seafood! The food there is kind of wonderful.

Dominique Crenn

As a chef, I've always been very conscious and very thoughtful about the way that I buy food or have my farmers produce it.

Dominique Crenn

I think through humor you can get a point across better than through just a dramatic narrative.

Dominique Crenn

We need to come up with alternatives to all the plastic wrap and containers that we use in restaurants. It's small things, like having your team bring reusable cups to get their coffees, and consolidating shipments as much as possible.

Dominique Crenn

When I came to America, I saw the inequality right away with the food industry. And I don't really talk about it in the book, but the racism here, it's so predominant and so impregnated in the history of America.

Dominique Crenn