Paul Prudhomme Quotes
38 Paul Prudhomme quotes:
"We had no electricity, no gas. Food was probably our greatest entertainment - the most fun thing that we could do was food."
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"I believe in America. I'm one of those silly flag wavers."
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"I opened my own restaurant when I was 17. I went broke, then traveled around the country, learning about different kinds of foods, had three other restaurants that went broke. It didn't all start just a few years ago!"
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"I wait for the next opportunity to have something to do with food. If I get rested, my mind just starts creating new dishes - click, click, click."
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"I'm a professional cook. I've worked with other cooks from all over the world, but my family is not that way - they're always lived within 25 miles of my hometown!"
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"My mother would put me on a wooden box at the stove and tell me to call her if certain things would happen. Like if the steam turns blue, that is danger!"
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"My sister just went into the restaurant business recently. Most of my brothers are in the 60s and are retired. I'm the baby in the family."
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"The bad part about being recognized is that when I walk into a restaurant and sit down, I've got to eat everything on the plate, whether it's good or bad. People would take it as an insult if I did otherwise."
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"We didn't do wrong things because we didn't want to embarrass our parents."
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"I think the most wonderful thing in the world is another chef. I'm always excited about learning new things about food."
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"One of the problems of our youth is that the family unit is broken up. When we'd sit down to dinner together as a family, we'd learn about each other. We had something people don't get today."
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"Some people absorb in different ways. I didn't realize until I was 15 years old how much I retained."
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"We trust something in a grocery store and assume it's good. We don't learn about the most precious thing in life-the food we put in our body. Educate yourself!"
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"When you've got a great business going, you go open another and take the risk of losing the whole thing. It's fun!"
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"Cajun is country food by farmers and fisherman that arrived in Louisiana from Acadiana, Canada."
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"I didn't want to do just another set of recipes. I think that's useless."
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"I would work as a cook, get a little money, then open another restaurant."
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"In '71 or '72 I returned to New Orleans and stayed there. I started cooking Louisiana food. Of all the things I had cooked, it was the best-and it was my heritage."
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