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
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.
If you have acid in food, you need to sugar it. At a high temperature, the acids are changed to sugar.
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.
Cajun is country food by farmers and fisherman that arrived in Louisiana from Acadiana, Canada.
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.