Jacques Pepin Quotes

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• This June, I'll travel once again to the Food and Wine Magazine Classic in Aspen, Colorado. For many years, my dear friend Julia Child and…
• Cooking is the art of adjustment.
• I cooked at the White House for Easter, last year, with Michelle Obama. But it more had to do with cooking from the organic garden,…
• All the great chefs I know - Thomas Keller, Jean-Georges Vongerichten - they are technicians first.
• After 45 years of marriage, when I have an argument with my wife, if we don't agree, we do what she wants. But, when we…
• Basically, I go to the local farmer's market and decide to what to cook then, depending on what I find. Either my wife or I…
• Great cooking favors the prepared hands.
• I am a glutton. I'll eat whatever is there. Pizza. I love hot dogs anywhere. I've got nothing against any of that. If I feel…
• I tell a student that the most important class you can take is technique. A great chef is first a great technician. 'If you are…
• I was born on the eighteenth of December, 1935, in the town Bourg-en-Bresse, about thirty miles northeast of Lyon, the second of three sons of…
• You can't escape the taste of the food you had as a child. In times of stress, what do you dream about? Your mother's clam…
• When I pair food and wine, I start with the food. If I have a beautiful roasted bird, I might choose a Cabernet or Pinot…
• When I wrote 'Fast Food My Way' in 2004, I hoped that my friends would prepare my recipes. Now, more people cook from that book…
• 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 it…
• You have no choice as a professional chef: you have to repeat, repeat, repeat, repeat until it becomes part of yourself. I certainly don't cook…
• I taped my first series for PBS in 1982 at WJCT-TV in Jacksonville, Florida. The show, called 'Everyday Cooking with Jacques Pepin,' was about saving…
• When you are at home, even if the chicken is a little burnt, what's the big deal? Relax.
• I have an immigrant story. Most people come here for economic reasons, or religious reasons, or racial reasons, or gender reasons, or one of those…
• I was chef to the French Presidents between '56 and '59, finished with de Gaulle, and during de Gaulle I remember serving Eisenhower, Nehru, Tito,…
• Most people who came here came for economic reasons or sometimes for religious or political reasons. I didn't have any of this. I came here,…

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