Paul Prudhomme Quotes

You don't need a silver fork to eat good food.
Paul Prudhomme

Food, Good, Eat

Creole is New Orleans city food. Communities were created by the people who wanted to stay and not go back to Spain or France.
Paul Prudhomme

Food, Wanted, Stay

I think the most wonderful thing in the world is another chef. I'm always excited about learning new things about food.
Paul Prudhomme

Food, Learning, Another

I'm just here and I'm doin' the best I can. If you don't understand that, then what can I do?
Paul Prudhomme

Best, Understand, Here

After failing four times and after working for other people and realizing that nobody paid attention to the food like they should have, we wanted to just pay attention to the food and service.
Paul Prudhomme

Food, After, Working

Cajun is country food by farmers and fisherman that arrived in Louisiana from Acadiana, Canada.
Paul Prudhomme

Food, Country, Canada

Don't get fancy. Have you cooked an apple pie? You don't know what you did wrong? Do this: Take two or three apples. Put them on a table. Study them.
Paul Prudhomme

Two, Study, Put

Have fun. Do something nobody else had done before, or has done since.
Paul Prudhomme

Fun, Done, Before

I believe in America. I'm one of those silly flag wavers.
Paul Prudhomme

America, Silly, Flag

I didn't want to do just another set of recipes. I think that's useless.
Paul Prudhomme

Another, Useless, Recipes

I don't think life is to be taken too seriously. Take it too seriously, and it'll getcha.
Paul Prudhomme

Life, Seriously, Taken

I love people, and I'm excited that I can turn them on.
Paul Prudhomme

Love, Turn, Excited

I opened a restaurant that had nothing but California wines.
Paul Prudhomme

Nothing, Restaurant, California

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!
Paul Prudhomme

Learning, Different, Country

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.
Paul Prudhomme

Food, Mind, Wait

I would work as a cook, get a little money, then open another restaurant.
Paul Prudhomme

Work, Money, Another

I'd like to have the first restaurant that can deliver incredible quality food to your table at your house at any time-right where you live.
Paul Prudhomme

Food, Live, House

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!
Paul Prudhomme

Family, Within, Worked

If you have acid in food, you need to sugar it. At a high temperature, the acids are changed to sugar.
Paul Prudhomme

Food, High, Changed

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.
Paul Prudhomme

Food, Started, Cooking

It's the sense of what family is at the dinner table. It was the joy of knowing mother was in the kitchen making our favorite dish. I wish more people would do this and recall the joy of life.
Paul Prudhomme

Life, Family, Mother

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!
Paul Prudhomme

Mother, Happen, Put

One of my missions was to teach.
Paul Prudhomme

Teach, Missions

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.
Paul Prudhomme

Family, Today, Together

Some people absorb in different ways. I didn't realize until I was 15 years old how much I retained.
Paul Prudhomme

Different, Old, Until

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Nationality: American

Type: Chef

Born: July 13, 1940

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