"My mother likes what I cook, but doesn't……" — Jacques Pepin
"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 have a place in Mexico, but people think I'm the quintessential French chef."
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30 Quotes by Jacques Pepin
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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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I was born on the eighteenth of December, 1935, in the town Bourg-en-Bresse, about thirty miles northeast of Lyon, the…
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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 was doing Bean more than I've done him in the last few years, I did strange things -…
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My philosophy is not a bean-counting, accounting 'look at this.' It is a philosophy that smaller government is better government,…
— John Bolton
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Way down among Brazilians. Coffee beans grow by the billions. So they've got to find those extra cups to fill.…
— Frank Sinatra
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On Saturday mornings I would walk to the Flavor Cup or Puerto Rico Importing coffee store to get my coffee.…
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It is true that my predecessor did not object, as I do, to pictures of one's golf skill in action.…
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I make bean stalks, I'm A builder, like yourself.
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I used to visit and revisit it a dozen times a day, and stand in deep contemplation over my vegetable…
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
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I was determined to know beans.
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I love this child. Red-haired - patient and gentle like her mother - fey and funny like her father. When…
— Robert Fulghum
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The budget is like a mythical bean bag. Congress votes mythical beans into it, then reaches in and tries to…
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