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
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.
My mother would put me on a wooden box at the stove and tell me to call her if certain things would happen. Like if the steam turns blue, that is danger!
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!
We had no electricity, no gas. Food was probably our greatest entertainment - the most fun thing that we could do was food.
What I think and what the world thinks is totally different.
I would work as a cook, get a little money, then open another restaurant.
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 didn't do wrong things because we didn't want to embarrass our parents.
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.
Some people absorb in different ways. I didn't realize until I was 15 years old how much I retained.
I don't think life is to be taken too seriously. Take it too seriously, and it'll getcha.
When I travel I normally eat club sandwiches or I bring my own food. When you go into a new town, it's very had to find a good place to eat.
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!
One of my missions was to teach.