Paul Prudhomme Quotes

We closed the restaurant in New Orleans and brought the entire staff to San Francisco. But we had to go home.

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.

One of my missions was to teach.

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!

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!

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!

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.

If you have acid in food, you need to sugar it. At a high temperature, the acids are changed to sugar.

When you've got a great business going, you go open another and take the risk of losing the whole thing. It's fun!

Creole is New Orleans city food. Communities were created by the people who wanted to stay and not go back to Spain or France.

Dad determined when the pork lard was hot enough for frying by dropping a match into it; if the match lit, the lard was hot enough.

I'm just here and I'm doin' the best I can. If you don't understand that, then what can I do?

I didn't want to do just another set of recipes. I think that's useless.

Cajun is country food by farmers and fisherman that arrived in Louisiana from Acadiana, Canada.

I opened a restaurant that had nothing but California wines.

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.

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.

When the taste changes with every bite and the last bite tastes as good as the first, that's Cajun.

What I think and what the world thinks is totally different.

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.

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.

Some people absorb in different ways. I didn't realize until I was 15 years old how much I retained.