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

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Paul Prudhomme
Age: 75 †
Born: 1940
Born: July 13
Died: 2015
Died: October 8
Businessperson
Chef
Non-Fiction Writer
Restaurateur
Opelousas
Louisiana
Gene Autry Prudhomme
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I would work as a cook, get a little money, then open another restaurant.
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What I think and what the world thinks is totally different.
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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.
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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!
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We didn't do wrong things because we didn't want to embarrass our parents.
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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.
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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.
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Creole is New Orleans city food. Communities were created by the people who wanted to stay and not go back to Spain or France.
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You don't need a silver fork to eat good food.
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Have fun. Do something nobody else had done before, or has done since.
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Don't get fancy. Have you cooked an apple pie? You don't know what you did wrong? Do this: Take two or three apples. Put them on a table. Study them.
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We had no electricity, no gas. Food was probably our greatest entertainment - the most fun thing that we could do was food.
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I'd like to have the first restaurant that can deliver incredible quality food to your table at your house at any time-right where you live.
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Some people absorb in different ways. I didn't realize until I was 15 years old how much I retained.
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If you have acid in food, you need to sugar it. At a high temperature, the acids are changed to sugar.
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