Jacques Pepin

My palate is simpler than it used to be. A young chef adds and adds and adds to the plate. As you get older, you start to take away. ↗

— Jacques Pepin

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

— Jacques Pepin

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One of the biggest problems with young chefs is too much addition to the plate. You put cilantro and then tarragon and then olive oil and then walnut oil or whatever. It's too much. ↗

— Jacques Pepin

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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! ↗

— Jacques Pepin

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For everyday, we like Beaujolais, Grenache or Syrah, and we like a lot of it! It's a family tradition: We would never consider having a meal without wine. ↗

— Jacques Pepin

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Great cooking favors the prepared hands. ↗

— Jacques Pepin

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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. ↗

— Jacques Pepin

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If you have extraordinary bread and extraordinary butter, it's hard to beat bread and butter. ↗

— Jacques Pepin

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My mother likes what I cook, but doesn't think it's French. My wife is Puerto Rican and Cuban, so I eat rice and beans. We have a place in Mexico, but people think I'm the quintessential French chef. ↗

— Jacques Pepin

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Probably a mistake, you know, that people make in America, to think that all great chefs are a male... I'm still the only male in the family who went into that business. ↗

— Jacques Pepin

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