Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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I tell a student that the most important class you can take is technique. A great chef is first a great technician. 'If you are a jeweler, or a surgeon or a cook, you have to know the trade in your hand. You have to learn the process. You learn it through endless repetition until it belongs to you.

Jacques Pepin's Popular Quotes

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…

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

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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, bu…

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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…

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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…

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Great cooking favors the prepared hands.

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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 …

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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 …

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

- Jacques Pepin