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Great cooking favors the prepared hands. ↗

— Jacques Pepin

#favors #great #hands #prepared

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. ↗

— Jacques Pepin

#cooked #cooking #daughter #easter #garden

I taped my first series for PBS in 1982 at WJCT-TV in Jacksonville, Florida. The show, called 'Everyday Cooking with Jacques Pepin,' was about saving time and money in the kitchen - and it was a celebration of simple and unpretentious food. ↗

— Jacques Pepin

#called #celebration #cooking #everyday #first

But at school, I wasn't athletic, and if you're not athlete in high school, it's kind of hard to find your place, so play practice seemed perfect, especially if you were as uncoordinated as I was. ↗

— Piper Perabo

#athletic #especially #find #hard #high

I was chef to the French Presidents between '56 and '59, finished with de Gaulle, and during de Gaulle I remember serving Eisenhower, Nehru, Tito, Macmillan; those were the heads of state at the time. I never saw anyone. No one would ever, ever, ever come to the kitchen. You couldn't even see them. ↗

— Jacques Pepin

#between #chef #come #during #eisenhower

Just because I am a chef doesn't mean I don't rely on fast recipes. Indeed, we all have moments when, pressed for time, we'll use a can of tuna and a tomato for a first course. It's a question of choosing the right recipes for the rest of the menu. ↗

— Jacques Pepin

#because #chef #choosing #course #fast

Most people who came here came for economic reasons or sometimes for religious or political reasons. I didn't have any of this. I came here, I liked it, I stayed. So I'm a pure American - even more than people who are born here - because I did it by choice as an adult. ↗

— Jacques Pepin

#american #any #because #born #came

If you're expecting an intellectual film, then you will be disappointed. ↗

— Barry Pepper

#expecting #film #intellectual #then #will

When I wrote 'Fast Food My Way' in 2004, I hoped that my friends would prepare my recipes. Now, more people cook from that book than any other I've written in the past 30 years. ↗

— Jacques Pepin

#book #cook #fast #fast food #food

When I was a child, we always had wine on the table, no matter how simple the meal. The wine had no special identity; it was just 'the wine,' from the cellar cask. The rules were general: white with the first course, red with the main course. ↗

— Jacques Pepin

#cask #cellar #child #course #first