Starting Culinary School Mugs

"Tell them their pasta prima vera will be slightly delayed."

A chef teaches a classroom of other chefs how to properly flip something using a spatula.

Restaurant Chef with book titled: 'Introduction To Cooking'.

Cooking School. And what should we always do before chopping our shallots? Have our bandages ready!

'Cooking'

"Boil, toil and trouble, I wish I'd never started this risotto."

'Put an egg in the bowl and beat it with the whisk.'

"Your food didn't melt, young man... this is the soup course."

"I know you didn't order the snails, sir. They're complimentary with the salad."

"And the cheese in your omelette? Cheddar, Brie, aged Gouda, Morbier, Torta del Casar, Double Gloucester, Époisses, Shropshire blue, or American?"

"I have no idea what, hic, went wrong. I did everything, hic, Mario Batali said."

"You're the lid to my pot."

6 Brothers Falafel

As you like it - 'Waiter, chicken with watercress please' 'I'm sorry sir we haven't any chicken left ... but if you wish I bring you a larger portion of watercress...'

'He's trying to put some magic into my recipes.'

"I'm so proud - she's already learning her shapes."

Picking pastries.

Careful, the plate's probably still hot.

"Rump roast?"

Cookbooks

'I started out washing dishes, but when the dishwater tasted better than the soup...'

'Waiter...my entrée fell over.'

"Compliments to the chef! Pass it on."

Peter Pan, the Utensil that Never Grew Up

"All the butter was gone. There was no way out. The puff pastry had to be made with margarine... from a tub."

"How fresh is the calamari?"

"I've never heard of it, either, but nothing ventured, nothing gained, I always say!"

"'TSP' stands for 'teaspoon' not 'two solid pounds'!"

"Is the asparagus farm-raised or wild-caught?"

"Do you remember when we used to put FOOD in food?"

"We have; pulled pork, enticed chicken, persuaded lamb, bullied beef, cajoled Turkey..."

"These things are delicious. Hard and crunchy on the outside, soft and chewy on the inside!"

Frank and Ernie's Diner. We're all out of pressed duck, sir, but I can put the squeeze on some chicken for you.

"The soup of the day is pineapple with a hint of rum."

"Our cook is new, so ge's Googling what goes on a bacon, lettuce and tomato sandwich as we speak."