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Paul Prudhomme [1940-2015] American

Rank: 101
Chef

Paul Prudhomme, also known as Gene Autry Prudhomme, was an American celebrity chef whose specialties were Creole and Cajun cuisines, which he was also credited with popularizing.

Food, Learning, Good, Travel, Trust

Quote	Tags	Rank
You don't need a silver fork to eat good food.	Food, Good	101
I think the most wonderful thing in the world is another chef. I'm always excited about learning new things about food.	Food, Learning	102
The bad part about being recognized is that when I walk into a restaurant and sit down, I've got to eat everything on the plate, whether it's good or bad. People would take it as an insult if I did otherwise.		103
I wait for the next opportunity to have something to do with food. If I get rested, my mind just starts creating new dishes - click, click, click.	Food	104
Cajun is country food by farmers and fisherman that arrived in Louisiana from Acadiana, Canada.	Food	105
It's the sense of what family is at the dinner table. It was the joy of knowing mother was in the kitchen making our favorite dish. I wish more people would do this and recall the joy of life.		106
We didn't do wrong things because we didn't want to embarrass our parents.		107
We're working people, and that's what we like to do, work.		108
Creole is New Orleans city food. Communities were created by the people who wanted to stay and not go back to Spain or France.		109
When I am done with this meal you can have my life. It is heaven.		110
I opened my own restaurant when I was 17. I went broke, then traveled around the country, learning about different kinds of foods, had three other restaurants that went broke. It didn't all start just a few years ago!	Learning	111
I love people, and I'm excited that I can turn them on.		112
When I travel I normally eat club sandwiches or I bring my own food. When you go into a new town, it's very had to find a good place to eat.	Travel	113
We trust something in a grocery store and assume it's good. We don't learn about the most precious thing in life-the food we put in our body. Educate yourself!	Trust	114
I'm a professional cook. I've worked with other cooks from all over the world, but my family is not that way - they're always lived within 25 miles of my hometown!		115
Have fun. Do something nobody else had done before, or has done since.		116
Don't get fancy. Have you cooked an apple pie? You don't know what you did wrong? Do this: Take two or three apples. Put them on a table. Study them.		117
When you've got a great business going, you go open another and take the risk of losing the whole thing. It's fun!		118
We had no electricity, no gas. Food was probably our greatest entertainment - the most fun thing that we could do was food.		119
My mother would put me on a wooden box at the stove and tell me to call her if certain things would happen. Like if the steam turns blue, that is danger!		120
In '71 or '72 I returned to New Orleans and stayed there. I started cooking Louisiana food. Of all the things I had cooked, it was the best-and it was my heritage.		121
If you have acid in food, you need to sugar it. At a high temperature, the acids are changed to sugar.		122
I would work as a cook, get a little money, then open another restaurant.		123
I don't think life is to be taken too seriously. Take it too seriously, and it'll getcha.		124
I believe in America. I'm one of those silly flag wavers.		125
I'm just here and I'm doin' the best I can. If you don't understand that, then what can I do?		126
I didn't want to do just another set of recipes. I think that's useless.		201
What I think and what the world thinks is totally different.		202
We closed the restaurant in New Orleans and brought the entire staff to San Francisco. But we had to go home.		203
Some people absorb in different ways. I didn't realize until I was 15 years old how much I retained.		204
One of the problems of our youth is that the family unit is broken up. When we'd sit down to dinner together as a family, we'd learn about each other. We had something people don't get today.		205
One of my missions was to teach.		206
I opened a restaurant that had nothing but California wines.		207
I'd like to have the first restaurant that can deliver incredible quality food to your table at your house at any time-right where you live.		208
After failing four times and after working for other people and realizing that nobody paid attention to the food like they should have, we wanted to just pay attention to the food and service.		209

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