Occupation: Chef Birth: July 13, 1940 Death: October 8, 2015
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….
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 dan….
When you've got a great business going, you go open another and take the risk of losing the whole thing. It's fun!.
Some people absorb in different ways. I didn't realize until I was 15 years old how much I retained..
I would work as a cook, get a little money, then open another restaurant..
Cajun is country food by farmers and fisherman that arrived in Louisiana from Acadiana, Canada..
I opened a restaurant that had nothing but California wines..
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..
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..
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 o….
Have fun. Do something nobody else had done before, or has done since..
One of my missions was to teach..
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..
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 wa….
I think the most wonderful thing in the world is another chef. I'm always excited about learning new things about food..
I don't think life is to be taken too seriously. Take it too seriously, and it'll getcha..
When the taste changes with every bite and the last bite tastes as good as the first, that's Cajun..
We're working people, and that's what we like to do, work..
Creole is New Orleans city food. Communities were created by the people who wanted to stay and not go back to Spain or France..
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….
We had no electricity, no gas. Food was probably our greatest entertainment - the most fun thing that we could do was food..