Quotes from Paul Prudhomme

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

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.

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!

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.

You don't need a silver fork to eat good food.

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.

One of my missions was to teach.

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

I opened a restaurant that had nothing but California wines.

I don't think life is to be taken too seriously. Take it too seriously, and it'll getcha.

Don't get fancy. Have you cooked an apple pie? You don't know what you did wrong? Do this: Take two or three apples. Put them on a table. Study them.

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.

After failing four times and after working for other people and realizing that nobody paid attention to the food like they should have, we wanted to just pay attention to the food and service.

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.

When I am done with this meal you can have my life. It is heaven.

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

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

One of the problems of our youth is that the family unit is broken up. When we'd sit down to dinner together as a family, we'd learn about each other. We had something people don't get today.

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 love people, and I'm excited that I can turn them on.

I believe in America. I'm one of those silly flag wavers.

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!

We didn't do wrong things because we didn't want to embarrass our parents.

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