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Gail Simmons

Gail Simmons Books

Television personality

Gail Simmons is a renowned television personality known for her expertise and friendly style in the culinary world. She is best known for her role as a judge on the popular TV show 'Top Chef'.

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“I am a glutton for a beautiful hotel. I am so easily smitten by high thread counts.”

Beautiful Hotel Thread Smitten

Author:Gail Simmons

“Because I travel so much, I bring my workout clothes and shoes wherever I go. That way I can always do some exercise.”

Way I Can Exercise Clothes Shoes Workout Clothes And Shoes Workout Clothes

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“It's better to get the nutrients for healthy skin from food, not supplements. Salmon, walnuts, blueberries, spinach... lots of my favorite foods happen to be amazing for skin too.”

Happens Healthy Skins My Favorite Supplements Salmon Nutrients Blueberries Spinach Walnuts Favorite Foods

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“My mother's kitchen was built to be the focal point of our house. I got into the kitchen often as a child.”

Children Mother House Built Kitchen Focal Point

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“Eating a lot is an occupational hazard but it's a pretty great problem to have. I spend a lot of time eating sweets on TV - cake, cupcakes, donuts, and pudding. It's a dream job, but at the same time there will be days where I wake up knowing I will eat 15 desserts!”

Problem Dream Jobs Knowing Sweet Tvs Eating Wake Up Cake Dessert Hazards Pudding Cupcakes Donuts Dream Job Occupational Hazards Eating A Lot

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“Like baseball, food will never go out of style; we will always need to eat and we will always find it entertaining. I think of food TV this way - all the fun and none of the calories.”

Thinking Way Needs Fun Style Tvs Baseball Entertaining Calories

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“There are few women in America that don't want to lose 5 pounds, but I refuse to let that thought dominate my life. And there are too many other real problems in the world - real obesity problems and real hunger problems - to worry that much about a few pounds that I'd like to lose.”

World Want Real Problem America Loses Worry Hunger Refuse Pounds Obesity Real Problems

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“Always wear sunscreen and wash your makeup off at night.”

Night Makeup Sunscreen Wear Sunscreen

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“At the beginning of the week, I roast a ton of vegetables so I can use them for the next few days. I also plan out meals in advance.”

I Can Use Next Plans Week Meals Vegetables

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“Canada is a big part of my life.”

Author:Gail Simmons

“Dark chocolate, and salt and vinegar chips are my weakness - but not together.”

Together Dark Weakness Chocolate Salt Chips Vinegar Dark Chocolate

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“I have a mantra in my head that there will always be another meal. I can put my fork down, knowing there will be good things in my future!”

I Can Knowing Good Things Be Good Meals My Future Mantras Forks

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“I run a solid 4-6 miles at a time, and over the last year two years I've gotten really into SoulCycle. It's sort of an evolved form of spinning.”

Years Two Running Lasts Form Miles Two Years Last Year Spinning

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“I would not say I'm an aggressive shopper. I want to be; I aspire to be an aggressive shopper. I am a meek, meek shopper.”

Want Aggressive Aspire Meek Shoppers

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“I'm a healthy weight for my height, and I like how I look on most days.”

Looks Healthy Weight Height Healthy Weight

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“Patience was not something that came naturally to me, but in cooking it is the quintessential skill.”

Skills Cooking Quintessential

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“The less you do to beautiful food, the better it's going to taste. You don't need to mess with it all the time.”

Needs Beautiful Taste Mess

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“There's not a single chef I know of that does not think about the politics of the food they're serving.”

Thinking Knows Doe Serving Chef

Author:Gail Simmons

“When I'm cooking for myself, I find that I eat almost completely vegetarian, although I'm not vegetarian.”

Cooking Vegetarian

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“You don't get second chances in the real world.”

World Real Chance Real World Second Chance

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“I love The Inn at Palmetto Bluff, an Auberge Property in Bluffton, South Carolina. Its a spectacular corner of the world, with massive old trees lined with Spanish moss, and alligators swimming in the river.”

World Tree Rivers Property South Corners Massive Swimming Spectacular Carolina Moss South Carolina Inns Alligators Bluffs Corners Of The World Old Trees

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“I always want my guests to be happy and impressed.”

Want Guests Impressed

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“Ultimately, I realized that in order to write about food you need to understand everything about cooking, so I moved to New York and enrolled in the Institute of Culinary Education.”

Needs Writing Order New York Cooking Moved I Realized Culinary Institute

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“I eat for a living, so working out is definitely part of my job, the same way that the eating, tasting, and drinking is.”

Way Jobs Eating Drinking Work Out Tasting

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“I had decided I wanted to write about food, and I knew the only way to do that is to speak with authority, which meant learning the language and knowing what that experience is like.”

Way Writing Wanted Speak Language Knowing Authority Decided

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“I'm tempted by everything. My husband makes fun of me because every day it's a new food that I love. I have a weakness for butterscotch pudding, ice cream in any flavor and dark chocolate, although that's one thing I do keep in my house - 70% dark chocolate.”

House Fun Dark One Thing Husband Weakness Ice My Husband Chocolate Cream Flavor Tempted Ice Cream Pudding Dark Chocolate Butterscotch Chocolate Pudding

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“I eat for a living, so working out is definitely part of my job, the same way that the eating, tasting, and drinking is. I try to keep up a consistent workout routine, but I'm not the kind of person who goes to the gym every day and does the same routine.”

Trying Kind Eating Drinking Work Out Consistent Gym Workout

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“Patience is the secret to good food.”

Secret Good Food

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“I cook mostly vegetarian vegetable and bean stews. Quinoa salads. I make my mother-in-law's recipe for chicken and barley stew all the time.”

Law Mother Cooks Chickens Vegetarian Vegetables Recipes In-laws Beans Salad Stew Mother In Law Barley Quinoa

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“In America, Blackberry Farm in Tennessee is one of the most amazing hotels I've had the privilege of staying at.”

America Privilege Hotel Staying Farms Most Amazing Tennessee Blackberries

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“There is no better way to bring people together than with desserts.”

People Way Together Better Ways Dessert Gathering Together

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“You can't fake being able to cook well.”

People Wells Able Cooks Fake Fake People

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“Balance is key in cooking - you want a little acid, a little sweet, a little savory - the flavors should be harmonious.”

Want Should Littles Sweet Keys Balance Cooking Flavor Acid Harmonious Savory

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“Find combinations of flavors you love and buy the best quality ingredients you can afford. Your food is only going to be as good as the sum of its parts, like anything else.”

Quality Combination Ingredients Flavor

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“You know, I lose patience really easily; I'd rather shop in the grocery store than in the department store. I can pick an apple like nobody's business.”

Knows I Can Loses Picks Stores Apples Department Shops Groceries Grocery Stores Department Stores

Author:Gail Simmons

“First and foremost, you have to remember that restaurants are businesses and they have to stay in business. And though everyone thinks they want grass fed beef, most people actually prefer the taste of corn fed - it is less dry, more marbled, and less gamey, not to mention much less expensive than grass fed.”

People Thinking Want Firsts Remember Taste Grass Dry Restaurants Expensive Feds Corn Beef

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About the Author

Born: May 19, 1976
Known for: Television personality
Quotes: 36

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