Paul Prudhomme People Quotations

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.

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.

We're working people, and that's what we like to do, work.

Creole is New Orleans city food. Communities were created by the people who wanted to stay and not go back to Spain or France.

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

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.

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

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.

We have a responsibility as citizens to do what we can for each other. It makes people happy. They eat it and when they see me later they want to hug me, to touch me, because Louisiana food is emotional food. It has a lot of flavor to it. You put it in your mouth in bad times and it makes you feel good.

We cooked for 300 people in tuxedos the Saturday before the hurricane hit. Then we cooked for 1,200 people in National Guard uniforms the Sunday after it hit.

That's my job, to lift people up with great food.