When I pair food and wine, I start with the food. If I have a beautiful roasted bird, I might choose a Cabernet or Pinot Noir, or maybe a Syrah, depending on the sauce and what is in my cellar. – Jacques Pepin
You cant escape the taste of the food you had as a child. In times of stress, what do you dream about? Your mothers clam chowder. Its security, comfort. It brings you home. – Jacques Pepin
I taped my first series for PBS in 1982 at WJCT-TV in Jacksonville, Florida. The show, called Everyday Cooking with Jacques Pepin, was about saving time and money in the kitchen – and it was a celebration of simple and unpretentious food. – Jacques Pepin
This June, Ill travel once again to the Food and Wine Magazine Classic in Aspen, Colorado. For many years, my dear friend Julia Child and I have teamed up to teach classes together at the event for the past seven years, my daughter, Claudine, has been my cooking partner on stage. – Jacques Pepin
It has never made any sense to argue that, unique among the people of the world, Arabs are more concerned on a day-to-day basis about the treatment of people they dont know than they are about how theyre going to put food on their own tables, or whether their sons will ever find a job. – John Podhoretz
Doing things like playing music, something thats so natural and basic to human function, running around in nature, eating delicious food. These things are intrinsic in basic, primordial to human beings, so thats sort of a way to return to a blank canvas, allowing my true personality to return. – Ezra Miller