Food Quote by Jacques Pépin

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

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

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

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

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

When you are at home, even if the chicken is a little burnt, what's the big deal? Relax.

— Jacques Pepin

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

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

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

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

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

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…

— Jacques Pepin