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

- Jacques Pepin

I have an immigrant story. Most people come here for economic reasons, or religious reasons, or racial reasons, or gender reasons, or one of those th…

- Jacques Pepin

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, bu…

- Jacques Pepin

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…

- Jacques Pepin

This is what a family is all about - one another, sitting around the table at night. And it's very, very important, I think, for the kid to spend tim…

- Jacques Pepin

Great cooking favors the prepared hands.

- Jacques Pepin

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 …

- Jacques Pepin

When you become a good cook, you become a good craftsman, first. You repeat and repeat and repeat until your hands know how to move without thinking …

- Jacques Pepin

When you are at home, even if the chicken is a little burnt, what's the big deal? Relax.

- Jacques Pepin