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

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

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

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

One of my missions was to teach.

When I am done with this meal you can have my life. It is heaven.

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

Dad determined when the pork lard was hot enough for frying by dropping a match into it; if the match lit, the lard was hot enough.

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

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

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

I opened a restaurant that had nothing but California wines.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.