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Chef Quotes by Jacques Pepin
- All the great chefs I know - Thomas Keller, Jean-Georges Vongerichten - they are technicians first.
- 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…
- 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 was chef to the French Presidents between '56 and '59, finished with de Gaulle, and during de Gaulle I remember serving Eisenhower, Nehru, Tito,…
- Probably a mistake, you know, that people make in America, to think that all great chefs are a male... I'm still the only male in…
- The idea of old was to conform yourself to a style of cooking, it was not to create a style of cooking. Now the chef…
- My palate is simpler than it used to be. A young chef adds and adds and adds to the plate. As you get older, you…
- One of the biggest problems with young chefs is too much addition to the plate. You put cilantro and then tarragon and then olive oil…
- 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 use…
- My mother likes what I cook, but doesn't think it's French. My wife is Puerto Rican and Cuban, so I eat rice and beans. We…
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