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I say: If you don’t know how to cook I’m sure you have at least one friend who knows how to cook. Well call that friend and say ‘Can I come next time and can I bring some food and can I come an hour or two hours ahead and watch you and help you?’

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.

This June I’ll 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.

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.

When I wrote ‘Fast Food My Way’ in 2004 I hoped that my friends would prepare my recipes. Now more people cook from that book than any other I’ve written in the past 30 years.

You can’t escape the taste of the food you had as a child. In times of stress what do you dream about? Your mother’s clam chowder. It’s security comfort. It brings you home.

Jacques Pepin Food Quotes
It’s easy to dislike the few senior women out there. What if women were half the positions in power? It would be harder to dislike all of them.

Sheryl Sandberg Power Quote
I’ve been accustomed to being famous and having a certain level of attention for 14 years but in the last few months it’s changed. It’s like on the arcade game I’ve gone up to the next level.

Kylie Minogue Famous Quote
Anytime you cast a movie and you need someone famous in the lead part you’re a prisoner of whoever happens to be famous in the six-month window in which you’re trying to get a film financed.

Alexander Payne Famous Quote
A return to first principles in a republic is sometimes caused by the simple virtues of one man. His good example has such an influence that the good men strive to imitate him and the wicked are ashamed to lead a life so contrary to his example.

Hatred is gained as much by good works as by evil.

The main foundations of every state new states as well as ancient or composite ones are good laws and good arms you cannot have good laws without good arms and where there are good arms good laws inevitably follow.

There are three kinds of intelligence: one kind understands things for itself the other appreciates what others can understand the third understands neither for itself nor through others. This first kind is excellent the second good and the third kind useless.

Never was anything great achieved without danger.

Where the willingness is great the difficulties cannot be great.

Whoever conquers a free town and does not demolish it commits a great error and may expect to be ruined himself.

Niccolo Machiavelli Good Quotes
You never know what the future brings.

Randy Jackson Future Quote