Quotes by Jacques Pepin

Jacques Pepin

After 45 years of marriage, when I have an argument with my wife, if we don’t agree, we do what she wants. But, when we agree, we do what I want!

Anniversary

Wife

Years

All the great chefs I know – Thomas Keller, Jean-Georges Vongerichten – they are technicians first.

Chef

Firsts

Technicians

Basically, I go to the local farmer’s market and decide to what to cook then, depending on what I find. Either my wife or I cook, and we usually finish a bottle or two of wine by the time we are done cooking and eating.

Two

Wife

Wine

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 it and said, “Encore, Papa.”

Children

Daughter

Lying

Cooking is the art of adjustment.

Adjustment

Art

Cooking

Food can be utilized for economic reasons, like the grain embargo of Carter 40 years ago. You have a political decision, you are going to move the flow of food in a part of the world and not another part of the world. And certainly now, with the way the country is polarized and all that, you wouldn’t want to have a French menu, with a French thing – you’d be crucified! Or anything like that. You have to be a real American and apple pie and this and that.

Country

Moving

Real

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 two short words: bust ass.

Ass

Kitchen

Two

Great cooking favors the prepared hands.

Cooking

Favors

Hands

I am a glutton. I’ll eat whatever is there. Pizza. I love hot dogs anywhere. I’ve got nothing against any of that. If I feel like eating, I eat. I don’t feel guilty about it at all.

Dog

Guilty

Hot

I cooked at the White House for Easter, last year, with Michelle Obama. But it more had to do with cooking from the organic garden, and her message. I took my daughter and granddaughter there, and they were really charming, it was great.

Daughter

Easter

Garden

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America

Anniversary

Art

Ass

Beats

Beautiful

Bird

Book

Bread

Changed

Chef

Children

Choices

Class

Cooking

Country

Cutting

Daughter

Doctors

Dog

Dream

Easter

Extraordinary

Favors

Firsts

Florida

Food

Garden

Good Friend

Guilty

Hands

Home

Hot

Ideas

Important

Incredibles

Jobs

Kids

Kitchen

Littles

Lots Of Money

Lying

Mean

Meat

Mistake

Mother

Moving

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Quotes by Jacques Pepin

Jacques Pepin

After 45 years of marriage, when I have an argument with my wife, if we don’t agree, we do what she wants. But, when we agree, we do what I want!

All the great chefs I know – Thomas Keller, Jean-Georges Vongerichten – they are technicians first.

Basically, I go to the local farmer’s market and decide to what to cook then, depending on what I find. Either my wife or I cook, and we usually finish a bottle or two of wine by the time we are done cooking and eating.

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 it and said, “Encore, Papa.”

Cooking is the art of adjustment.

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 two short words: bust ass.

Great cooking favors the prepared hands.

I am a glutton. I’ll eat whatever is there. Pizza. I love hot dogs anywhere. I’ve got nothing against any of that. If I feel like eating, I eat. I don’t feel guilty about it at all.

I cooked at the White House for Easter, last year, with Michelle Obama. But it more had to do with cooking from the organic garden, and her message. I took my daughter and granddaughter there, and they were really charming, it was great.

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