Paul Prudhomme Quotations

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.

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!

I opened a restaurant that had nothing but California wines.

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

Have fun. Do something nobody else had done before, or has done since.

I didn't want to do just another set of recipes. I think that's useless.

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

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

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