Paul Prudhomme Quotes

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

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  Food, Eating Good, Cooking

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

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  Southern, Cajuns, Lasts

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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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  Thinking, World, Chef

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

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  New Orleans, Cities, People

  StarChefs Interview, www.starchefs.com. October, 2011.

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

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  Fun, Having Fun, Done

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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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  Trust, Education, Things In Life

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

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  Taken, Thinking, Life Is

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

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  People

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

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  Stupid, Believe, Silly

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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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  Opportunity, Creating, Waiting

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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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  People, Broken, Together

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• One of my missions was to teach.

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  Teaching, Missions, Teach

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• We didn't do wrong things because we didn't want to embarrass our parents.

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  Pregnancy, Parent, Want

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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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  World, Way, Hometown

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

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  Needs, Sugar, Temperature

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• I opened a restaurant that had nothing but California wines.

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  Wine, California, Restaurants

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• 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.

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  Travel, Sandwiches, Clubs

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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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  People, Comeback, Insult

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

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  Thinking, Useless, Recipes

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• 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.

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  House, Quality, Firsts

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

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  Littles, Restaurants, Cooks

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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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  New Orleans, Cooking, Heritage

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

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  Home, New Orleans, San Francisco

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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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  Country, Years, Different

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• 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.

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  Two, Apples, Pie

  "StarChefs" Interview, www.starchefs.com. October 2011.

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