I miss New York. I like the country and I like the people. However, the U.S. political and legal system is prone to overreaction.

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• Marc Rich:

  George W. Bush was a very bad president. The Iraq war was a big mistake. The U.S.A. needed a politi

• Marc Rich:

  If you are too proud, you don't do business.

• Jacques Pepin:

  All the great chefs I know - Thomas Keller, Jean-Georges Vongerichten - they are technicians first.

• Jacques Pepin:

  You have no choice as a professional chef: you have to repeat, repeat, repeat, repeat until it beco

• Jacques Pepin:

  This is what a family is all about - one another, sitting around the table at night. And it's very,

• Jacques Pepin:

  Basically, I go to the local farmer's market and decide to what to cook then, depending on what I f

• Jacques Pepin:

  My mother likes what I cook, but doesn't think it's French. My wife is Puerto Rican and Cuban, so I

• Jacques Pepin:

  I was chef to the French Presidents between '56 and '59, finished with de Gaulle, and during de Gau

• Jacques Pepin:

  I cooked at the White House for Easter, last year, with Michelle Obama. But it more had to do with

• Jacques Pepin:

  The idea of old was to conform yourself to a style of cooking, it was not to create a style of cook