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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

Several of the actors I've had the good fortune of working with stand out in my mind as 'ultimate'. I guess the obvious would be Tom Hanks, because he really is as fun and as genuine as he comes across in his films and interviews. ↗

— Barry Pepper

#because #comes #films #fortune #fun

When I left to go into apprenticeship in 1949, it was only four years after the war, and people don't realize, we still had tickets for butter, meat and so forth in France until 1947. It's not like the end of the war, everything was plentiful - it wasn't. ↗

— Jacques Pepin

#apprenticeship #butter #end #everything #forth

When I pair food and wine, I start with the food. If I have a beautiful roasted bird, I might choose a Cabernet or Pinot Noir, or maybe a Syrah, depending on the sauce and what is in my cellar. ↗

— Jacques Pepin

#bird #cellar #choose #depending #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

You can't escape the taste of the food you had as a child. In times of stress, what do you dream about? Your mother's clam chowder. It's security, comfort. It brings you home. ↗

— Jacques Pepin

#brings #child #comfort #dream #escape

You know, my parents had a restaurant. And I left home, actually, in 1949, when I was 13 years old, to go into apprenticeship. And actually when I left home, home was a restaurant - like I said, my mother was a chef. So I can't remember any time in my life, from age 5, 6, that I wasn't in a kitchen. ↗

— Jacques Pepin

#age #any #apprenticeship #chef #go

You have problems, you think drink helps, then you have two problems. ↗

— George Peppard

#helps #problems #then #think #two

Saw a wedding in the church. It was strange to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition. ↗

— Samuel Pepys

#church #condition #delight #fools #into

Thanks be to God. Since my leaving the drinking of wine, I do find myself much better, and do mind my business better, and do spend less money, and less time lost in idle company. ↗

— Samuel Pepys

#business #company #drinking #find #god