Paul Prudhomme quotes

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)
I think the most wonderful thing in the world is another chef. I'm always excited about learning new things about food.
Paul Prudhomme
We didn't do wrong things because we didn't want to embarrass our parents.
Paul Prudhomme
You don't need a silver fork to eat good food.
Paul Prudhomme
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
I don't think life is to be taken too seriously. Take it too seriously, and it'll getcha.
Paul Prudhomme
If you have acid in food, you need to sugar it. At a high temperature, the acids are changed to sugar.
Paul Prudhomme
Some people absorb in different ways. I didn't realize until I was 15 years old how much I retained.
Paul Prudhomme
One of my missions was to teach.
Paul Prudhomme
We had no electricity, no gas. Food was probably our greatest entertainment - the most fun thing that we could do was food.
Paul Prudhomme
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)
We're working people, and that's what we like to do, work.
Paul Prudhomme
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
What I think and what the world thinks is totally different.
Paul Prudhomme
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
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
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
I would work as a cook, get a little money, then open another restaurant.
Paul Prudhomme
I opened a restaurant that had nothing but California wines.
Paul Prudhomme
I believe in America. I'm one of those silly flag wavers.
Paul Prudhomme
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)
Have fun. Do something nobody else had done before, or has done since.
Paul Prudhomme
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
Cajun is country food by farmers and fisherman that arrived in Louisiana from Acadiana, Canada.
Paul Prudhomme
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