Paul Prudhomme
Paul Prudhomme
Paul Prudhomme, also known as Gene Autry Prudhomme, was an American celebrity chef whose specialties were Creole and Cajun cuisines; he was credited with popularizing the cuisines, as well. He was the chef proprietor of K-Paul's Louisiana Kitchen in New Orleans, and had previously owned and run several other restaurants. He developed several culinary products, including hot sauce and seasoning mixes, and wrote a number of cookbooks...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionChef
Date of Birth13 July 1940
CityOpelousas, LA
CountryUnited States of America
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.
Have fun. Do something nobody else had done before, or has done since.
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.
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.
If you have acid in food, you need to sugar it. At a high temperature, the acids are changed to sugar.
When you've got a great business going, you go open another and take the risk of losing the whole thing. It's fun!
We had no electricity, no gas. Food was probably our greatest entertainment - the most fun thing that we could do was food.
Some people absorb in different ways. I didn't realize until I was 15 years old how much I retained.
I'm a professional cook. I've worked with other cooks from all over the world, but my family is not that way - they're always lived within 25 miles of my hometown!
I would work as a cook, get a little money, then open another restaurant.
We didn't do wrong things because we didn't want to embarrass our parents.
I believe in America. I'm one of those silly flag wavers.
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 have been having a good time, and been cooking, ... You ought to see their faces. It's a joy, an absolute joy.