"I was born on the eighteenth of December,……" — Jacques Pepin
"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 Jeanne and Jean-Victor Pepin. Weighing only two and one half pounds, I nearly died at birth."
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30 Quotes by Jacques Pepin
Jacques Pepin has 30 quotes on this site.
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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…
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Cooking is the art of adjustment.
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I cooked at the White House for Easter, last year, with Michelle Obama. But it more had to do with…
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All the great chefs I know - Thomas Keller, Jean-Georges Vongerichten - they are technicians first.
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After 45 years of marriage, when I have an argument with my wife, if we don't agree, we do what…
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Basically, I go to the local farmer's market and decide to what to cook then, depending on what I find.…
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Great cooking favors the prepared hands.
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I am a glutton. I'll eat whatever is there. Pizza. I love hot dogs anywhere. I've got nothing against any…
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I tell a student that the most important class you can take is technique. A great chef is first a…
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You can't escape the taste of the food you had as a child. In times of stress, what do you…
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When I pair food and wine, I start with the food. If I have a beautiful roasted bird, I might…
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When I wrote 'Fast Food My Way' in 2004, I hoped that my friends would prepare my recipes. Now, more…
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More Birth Quotes
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The climate, the economic situation, rising birth rates; none of these things give me a lot of hope or reason…
— David Attenborough
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Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature.
— Marcus Aurelius
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As the births of living creatures are at first ill-shapen, so are all innovations, which are the births of time.
— Francis Bacon
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It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as…
— Francis Bacon
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They credited us with the birth of that sort of heavy metal thing. Well, if that's the case, there should…
— Ginger Baker
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There is a 'sanctity' involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of…
— James A. Baldwin
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When I gave birth to my fourth child, I suffered from post partum hemorrhaging. I almost lost my life. I…
— Joyce Banda
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That is the great mistake about the affections. It is not the rise and fall of empires, the birth and…
— Amelia Barr
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Birth control that really works - every night before we go to bed we spend an hour with our kids.
— Roseanne Barr
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The unique and supreme voluptuousness of love lies in the certainty of committing evil. And men and women know from…
— Charles Baudelaire
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They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it's night once more.
— Samuel Beckett
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Some people are born to lift heavy weights, some are born to juggle golden balls.
— Max Beerbohm
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