Paul Prudhomme famous quotes

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

#Food #Fabulous #Needs

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

#Thinking #World #Chef

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

#New Orleans #Cities #People

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

#People #Excited #Turns

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

#Taken #Thinking #Life Is

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

#Wine #California #Restaurants

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

#Country #Years #Different

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.
-- Paul Prudhomme

#People #Comeback #Insult

One of my missions was to teach.
-- Paul Prudhomme

#Teaching #Missions #Teach

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!
-- Paul Prudhomme

#Education #Body #Assuming

When you've got a great business going, you go open another and take the risk of losing the whole thing. It's fun!
-- Paul Prudhomme

#Fun #Risk #Losing

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

#Fun #Having Fun #Done

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

#Thinking #Want #Useless

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

#Opportunity #Creating #Waiting

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 #Apples #Pie

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

#Sugar #Temperature #Acid

When the taste changes with every bite and the last bite tastes as good as the first, that's Cajun.
-- Paul Prudhomme

#Southern #Taste #Firsts

We're working people, and that's what we like to do, work.
-- Paul Prudhomme

#People

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

#Country #Cajuns #Canada

What I think and what the world thinks is totally different.
-- Paul Prudhomme

#Thinking #Different #World

We had no electricity, no gas. Food was probably our greatest entertainment - the most fun thing that we could do was food.
-- Paul Prudhomme

#Fun #Entertainment #Electricity

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

#Years #People #Different

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 #Blue #Danger

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

#World #Way #Hometown

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

#House #Quality #Where You Live

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

#Littles #Restaurants #Cooks

We didn't do wrong things because we didn't want to embarrass our parents.
-- Paul Prudhomme

#Pregnancy #Parent #Want

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

#Broken #People #Together

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

#Silly #Believe #America

When I travel I normally eat club sandwiches or I bring my own food. When you go into a new town, it's very had to find a good place to eat.
-- Paul Prudhomme

#Travel #Clubs #Towns

We closed the restaurant in New Orleans and brought the entire staff to San Francisco. But we had to go home.
-- Paul Prudhomme

#Home #New Orleans #San Francisco

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

#New Orleans #Cooking #Heritage