I believe in America. I'm one of those silly flag wavers..

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 re….

If you have acid in food, you need to sugar it. At a high temperature, the acids are changed to sugar..

We had no electricity, no gas. Food was probably our greatest entertainment - the most fun thing that we could do was food..

We closed the restaurant in New Orleans and brought the entire staff to San Francisco. But we had to go home..

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..

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….

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..

I think the most wonderful thing in the world is another chef. I'm always excited about learning new things about food..

When the taste changes with every bite and the last bite tastes as good as the first, that's Cajun..

I don't think life is to be taken too seriously. Take it too seriously, and it'll getcha..

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….

Have fun. Do something nobody else had done before, or has done since..

I would work as a cook, get a little money, then open another restaurant..

I love people, and I'm excited that I can turn them on..

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..

When you've got a great business going, you go open another and take the risk of losing the whole thing. It's fun!.

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 didn't do wrong things because we didn't want to embarrass our parents..