68 Quotes by Paul Prudhomme

When the taste changes with every bite and the last bite tastes as good as the first, that's Cajun.

I think the most wonderful thing in the world is another chef. I’m always excited about learning new things about food.

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

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

When the taste changes with every bite and the last bite tastes as good as the first, that’s Cajun.

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!

In ’71 or ’72 I returned to New Orleans and stayed there. I started cooking Louisiana food. Of all the things I had cooked, it was the best-and it was my heritage.

We had no electricity, no gas. Food was probably our greatest entertainment – the most fun thing that we could do was food.