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I'm just here and I'm doin' the best I can. If you don't understand that, then what can I do?

We're working people, and that's what we like to do, work.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

Some people absorb in different ways. I didn't realize until I was 15 years old how much I retained.

Cajun is country food by farmers and fisherman that arrived in Louisiana from Acadiana, Canada.

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

You don't need a silver fork to eat good food.

One of my missions was to teach.

When I am done with this meal you can have my life. It is heaven.

I didn't want to do just another set of recipes. I think that's useless.

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.

Dad determined when the pork lard was hot enough for frying by dropping a match into it; if the match lit, the lard was hot enough.

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

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

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

I opened a restaurant that had nothing but California wines.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.