Quotes by Cat Cora - Page 1

I'm gay, and I was born this way.
Cat Cora / Chef
Born
Gay
Way
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My Mom always cooked healthy. Greek food lends itself to cooking healthy.
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Mom
Cooking
Greek
Healthy
Cooked
Lends
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Set yourself up for success from the very beginning and then focus on maintaining that success.
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Chef
Focus
Maintaining
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A mother's ability to provide for her children is not always tied to income, but rather to education.
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Children
Income
Mother
Tied
Provide
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I know growing up as a young gay person how much you hate yourself, how much you already think you're different.
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Gay
Growing Up
Hate
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No one knew I was gay growing up but I was bullied. I was a cheerleader, fairly popular and considered straight.
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Bullied
Cheerleader
Cheerleading
Gay
Growing Up
Fairly
Considered
Straight
Popular
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Even when you have doubts, take that step. Take chances. Mistakes are never a failure - they can be turned into wisdom.
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Wisdom
Chance
Failure
Doubt
Mistake
Steps
Mistakes
Chances
Doubts
Step
Turned
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To me, money is the ability to create lifelong experiences for my family and myself, to educate my children and a way to give back to humanity.
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Children
Educate
Giving
Humanity
Family Money Myself
Experiences
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I wanted so badly to be straight like my friends. But I couldn't change it any more than I could change having brown eyes. And I knew I would never fit into what kids thought was normal.
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Kids
Eye
Normal
Badly
Straight
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I like to abide by the seasons and let the natural flavor in food speak for itself. I use quick cooking techniques of high heat with very little fat, such as quick saute or wok stir-frying.
Cat Cora / Chef
Cooking
Flavor
Heat
Seasons
Technique
Use
Abide
Fat
Quick
Techniques
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I think about food all the time. It's my passion; it's my profession. But some people think about food all the time because they're hungry. We can put an end to this if we join forces and lend a hand.
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Hands
Hungry
Passion
Profession
Thinking
Forces
Join
Lend
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If eating out, order your meal and ask the server to wrap up half of the portion to take home with your for the next day, keeping your portion size in check, and stretching your dollar into two meals.
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Home
Eating
Order
Server
Size
Stretching
Two
Home Your Day
Check
Dollar
Meal
Portion
Wrap
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I believe that parents need to make nutrition education a priority in their home environment. It's crucial for good health and longevity to instill in your children sound eating habits from an early age.
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Age
Diet
Health
Home
Believe
Children
Crucial
Eating
Environment
Good Health
Instill
Longevity
Nutrition
Sound
Education Health Good
Early
Early Age
Habits
Parents
Priority
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Bullying is killing our kids. Being different is killing our kids and the kids who are bullying are dying inside. We have to save our kids whether they are bullied or they are bullying. They are all in pain.
Cat Cora / Chef
Kids
Being Different
Bullied
Bullying
Different
Dying
Pain
Inside
Being
Save
Whether
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It's fun to pick a cuisine and say I'm going to research Ethiopian food, and see what it's all about. You find that there are a lot of similarities in cuisines from around the world and a lot of similar flavors.
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Cuisine
Flavor
Fun
Research
Flavors
Similar
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I launched Chefs for Humanity, a national nonprofit, with my voice, heart and money from my own pocket. Money gives you the ability to make a difference in the world and, when used in a positive way, is a lot of fun.
Cat Cora / Chef
Fun
Heart
Humanity
Voice
Chefs
Make A Difference
Nonprofit
Pocket
Positive Way
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Purchase items that can be made into several meals, like a whole roasted chicken, or bag of sweet potatoes, and shop the periphery of the grocery store, avoiding the middle aisles full of processed and higher-priced foods.
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Avoiding
Bags
Items
Meals
Periphery
Potatoes
Sweet
Sweet Potatoes
Bag
Chicken
Foods
Grocery
Grocery Store
Shop
Processed
Purchase
Several
Store
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Every public school in the country should have a nutrition-education curriculum. We're creating a pilot program at my son's school. We are looking to create a replicable model that can help bring good nutrition to all children.
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Children
Country
Curriculum
Nutrition
Program
Public School
School
Son
Pilot
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I am climbing Mt. Kilimanjaro in Africa this Summer as a personal physical goal for myself, but also as a way to bring on sponsors and raise awareness and funds to help benefit the programs and initiatives of Chefs for Humanity.
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Climbing
Goal
Humanity
Sponsors
Summer
Africa
Benefit
Chefs
Funds
Initiatives
Programs
Physical
Raise
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I think people are more savvy about cooking, food and dining. I notice they are looking for more value for their money - not in larger portions but more in terms of healthier, fresh, farm-to-table dishes with a nice presentation.
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Cooking
Dining
Dishes
Nice
People
Portions
Presentation
Savvy
Thinking
Healthier
Notice
Terms
Value
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I would like a food/lifestyle show. We're not sure what that is yet. I want to be able to share what I do and how I raise my family. I feel like I have a story to tell. I enjoy talking and listening, sharing ideas and sharing advice.
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Advice
Ideas
Talking
Raise
Sharing
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When I was growing up in Mississippi - it was good Southern food... but I also grew up with a Greek family; when other kids were eating fried okra, we were eating steamed artichokes. So I think it played a big part in my healthy cooking.
Cat Cora / Chef
Family
Kids
Cooking
Eating
Grew
Growing Up
Healthy
Mississippi
Southern
Thinking
Good Food Cooking
Family Good Food
Also
Played
Big Part
Part
Fried
Other Kids
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When I'm home, the heart and soul of our family is in the kitchen. Growing up, my parents both worked, so dinnertime was for family - the TV was off. I think it's important to grab that time and really make it special, even after a tough day.
Cat Cora / Chef
Home
Growing Up
Heart
Heart And Soul
Family Time Home
Grab
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I've been experimenting more and more with LN2, liquid nitrogen. I've used it in battle on 'Iron Chef America,' but have also made some great ice creams at home for my family. Since it freezes basically on contact, you can have ice cream ready in mere minutes.
Cat Cora / Chef
Family
Home
America
Battle
Chef
Contact
Cream
Ice
Ice Cream
Iron
Liquid
Made
Mere
Minutes
Nitrogen
Ready
Used
Since
Also
Family Home Great
Basically
Experimenting
More And More
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Following the devastating India Ocean tsunami of 2004, I founded Chefs for Humanity, modeled after Doctors Without Borders, but comprised of chefs. There wasn't anything out there like it, and there was a definite need for chefs to be able to offer assistance and aid.
Cat Cora / Chef
Ocean
Assistance
Borders
Definite
Doctors
Following
Humanity
Tsunami
Aid
Founded
Chefs
Devastating
Modeled
Offer
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I think the biggest thing is clean as you go. Wash all your knives, cutting boards, dishes, when you are done cooking, not look at a sink full of dishes after you are done. Cleaning as you go helps keep away cross contamination and you avoid having food borne bacteria.
Cat Cora / Chef
Bacteria
Boards
Clean
Cleaning
Contamination
Cooking
Cutting
Dishes
Done
Knives
Thinking
Food Cooking Your
After
Avoid
Away
Biggest
Biggest Thing
Borne
Full
Cross
Look
Having
Helps
Sink
Wash
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My humanitarian work evolved from being with my family. My mom, my dad, they really set a great example for giving back. My mom was a nurse, my dad was a school teacher. But my mom did a lot of things for geriatrics and elderly people. She would do home visits for free.
Cat Cora / Chef
Dad
Home
Mom
Teacher
Elderly
Giving
Giving Back
Nurse
School
Family Work Home
Family Work Mom
Free
Set
Evolved
Great Example
School Teacher
She
Visits
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Chronic malnutrition, or the lack of proper nutrition over time directly contributes to three times as many child deaths as food scarcity. Yet surprisingly, you don't really hear about this hidden crisis through the morning news, Twitter or headlines of major newspapers.
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Morning
Children
Crisis
Headlines
News
Nutrition
Scarcity
Three
Child
Twitter
Through
Chronic
Deaths
Directly
Times
Hear
Hidden
Over
Major
Lack
Proper
Surprisingly
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I use a lot of fresh citrus, garlic, and fresh herbs when cooking to cut down on fat and sodium but punch up flavor. Our cupboards and fridge are full of condiments - mustards, vinegars, etc. that also add tons of flavor but are low in fat, calories, or other processed additives.
Cat Cora / Chef
Add
Additives
Calories
Citrus
Cooking
Cutting
Etc
Flavor
Garlic
Herbs
Sodium
Fat
Cut
Fresh
Low
Processed
Punch
Tons
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In my family, we let our boys have a say in what veggie side they want for dinner that night. We list off a handful of options and get them excited about helping to plan the dinner menu. They're much more inclined to finish their plates when they've helped decide what goes on them.
Cat Cora / Chef
Boys
Dinner
Goes On
Handful
Night
Plates
Boy
Side
Finish
Goes
Helped
Inclined
List
Menu
Options
Plan
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I want to talk to the bullied kids of the world. Tell them to hang on, it will get better. Know that an 'Iron Chef,' actors, musicians, artists and all successful people have probably been bullied in their life. And the best part of your life is yet to come. Whatever it takes to live, do it!
Cat Cora / Chef
Kids
Artist
Chef
Iron
Successful
Successful People
Life Best Better
Artists
Best Part
Hang
Musicians
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The type of cuisine I do, especially after being on 'Iron Chef' for several years, is a lot of global cuisine. My strength has always been Mediterranean cuisine across the board from Morocco, Spain, Italy, Greece, France, but I think now I'm doing a lot of very different cuisines all the time.
Cat Cora / Chef
Chef
Cuisine
France
Greece
Iron
Morocco
Spain
Thinking
Type
Years
Time Strength Always
Across
Board
Global
Italy
Mediterranean
Several
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We incorporated new tastes and flavors into our kids' diets from a very early age, which helped to develop their palates and prevented them from becoming picky eaters. We don't buy junk food and give them options of fresh fruit, yogurt, raw almonds, or dried whole grain cereals for snack time.
Cat Cora / Chef
Kids
Becoming
Cereal
Diets
Grain
Junk
Junk Food
Picky
Snacks
Yogurt
Buy
Develop
Dried
Early
Early Age
Tastes
Flavors
Fresh
Helped
Incorporated
Options
Raw
Snack
Very Early Age
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Right now I'd love to be sitting on a Greek island somewhere because of being Greek American, eating great octopus salad and some fantastic lamb. Or sipping a little ouzo. I think the Mediterranean diet is one of the healthiest... Lots of nuts, vegetables, fruits, fresh fish, lean meats, yogurt.
Cat Cora / Chef
Diet
Great
Eating
Fantastic
Greek
Islands
Nuts
Octopus
Salad
Sipping
Sitting
Thinking
Vegetables
Yogurt
Little
Love Great Fish
Now
Being
American
Lots
Fish
Fresh
Fruits
Island
Lamb
Mediterranean
Some
Right
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The thing about being at home versus being out in the world working is, it's a whole different vibe. When I'm home with my kids and partner, I will cook - even though she's a very good cook. She's learned over the years. We started with basics, you know, how to saute onions, how to saute mushrooms.
Cat Cora / Chef
Kids
Home
Basics
Good Cook
Mushrooms
Onions
Versus
Years
Cook
Partner
Vibe
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I add a lot of citrus to my food and I think that flavors it. And, to me, that what makes it healthier, lower in fat, lower in calories. It adds lots of flavor. Spices, of course. But citrus is definitely kind of my go-to to season and really to really make those flavors, make that food come alive.
Cat Cora / Chef
Add
Alive
Calories
Citrus
Flavor
Spices
Thinking
Adds
Fat
Lots
Course
Definitely
Healthier
Season
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Following the devastating India Ocean tsunami of 2004, I founded Chefs for Humanity, modeled after Doctors Without Borders, but comprised of chefs. There wasn't anything out there like it, and there was a definite need for chefs to be able to offer assistance and aid to those suffering from hunger and/or malnutrition worldwide.
Cat Cora / Chef
Ocean
Doctors
Humanity
India
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