"Thirty, 40 years ago, more than that now, even, the cook was certainly at the bottom of the social scale. And any mother would've wanted their child to marry a doctor, a lawyer, an architect, not a cook. Now, we are genius, it's different."

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Source : "Chef Jacques Pepin on Food and the Power of Memory" by Sarah Rosenberg and Tom McCarthy, abcnews.go.com. September 15, 2009.

Jacques Pepin

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“Let the foundation of thy affection be virtue, then make the building as rich as glorious as thou canst; if the foundation be beauty or wealth, and the building virtue, the foundation is too weak for the building, and it will fall: happy is he, the palace of whose affection is founded upon virtue, walled with riches glazed with beauty, and roofed with honor.”
“I think we must cling to the hope that we can see in the great heroism, the bravery of the firemen and policemen, and the outpouring of caring and concern that has come pouring in from around the world.”
“Find out who you are & embrace it. It's so much easier to face criticism when you are comfortable in your own skin.”
“I know," she said. "You have a stone in your heart, and some days it's so heavy there is nothing to be done. But you don't have to be alone for it. You should have come to me. I understand.”
“Many errors, of a truth, consist merely in the application of the wrong names of things.”
“If Woody Allen were a Muslim, he'd be dead by now.”

Source : Independent, February 18, 1989.
“I've always stood on one fact - that all over the world, there are only two things, the Establishment and the poor people. The poor people are a massive majority and across the world they are exploited in different kinds of ways. The Establishment depends on exploiting raw materials and the poor.”
“Faith is knowing who God is and acting accordingly... God fights when we move.”

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