Food can be utilized for economic reasons, like the grain embargo of Carter 40 years ago. You have a political decision, you… — Jacques Pepin Copy Share Image
When you become a good cook, you become a good craftsman, first. You repeat and repeat and repeat until your hands know… — Jacques Pepin Copy Share Image
“Fortunately, I knew the cardinal rule of getting on with one’s fellow cooks. It applies in any kitchen and can be summed up in… — Jacques Pépin Copy Share Image
When I was a child, we always had wine on the table, no matter how simple the meal. The wine had no special identity;… — Jacques Pepin Copy Share Image
When I wrote 'Fast Food My Way' in 2004, I hoped that my friends would prepare my recipes. Now, more people cook from that… — Jacques Pepin Copy Share Image
This is what a family is all about - one another, sitting around the table at night. And it's very, very important, I think,… — Jacques Pepin Copy Share Image
I say: If you don't know how to cook, I'm sure you have at least one friend who knows how to cook. Well, call… — Jacques Pepin Copy Share Image
Just because I am a chef doesn't mean I don't rely on fast recipes. Indeed, we all have moments when, pressed for time, we'll… — Jacques Pepin Copy Share Image
When you are at home, even if the chicken is a little burnt, what's the big deal? Relax. — Jacques Pepin Copy Share Image
Fortunately, I knew the cardinal rule of getting on with one's fellow cooks. It applies in any kitchen and can be summed up in… — Jacques Pepin Copy Share Image
Children never lie...I remember my daughter standing in her crib the first time I gave her caviar. I put it on bread. She ate… — Jacques Pepin Copy Share Image
The idea of old was to conform yourself to a style of cooking, it was not to create a style of cooking. Now the… — Jacques Pepin Copy Share Image
The menus that remain, for me, are really the menus that you have with your good friends, with your wife, with your mother, with… — Jacques Pepin Copy Share Image
You know, my parents had a restaurant. And I left home, actually, in 1949, when I was 13 years old, to go into apprenticeship.… — Jacques Pepin Copy Share Image
