 Creole is New Orleans city food. Communities were created by the people who wanted to stay and not go back to Spain or France. |
| I would work as a cook, get a little money, then open another restaurant. |
| When I am done with this meal you can have my life. It is heaven. |
| 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 restaurants that went broke. It didn't all start just a few years ago! |
| 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. |
| I'm just here and I'm doin' the best I can. If you don't understand that, then what can I do? |
| After failing four times and after working for other people and realizing that nobody paid attention to the food like they should have, we wanted to just pay attention to the food and service. |
| We didn't do wrong things because we didn't want to embarrass our parents. |
| You don't need a silver fork to eat good food. |
| It's the sense of what family is at the dinner table. It was the joy of knowing mother was in the kitchen making our favorite dish. I wish more people would do this and recall the joy of life. Topics: Family, Life |
| 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 was my heritage. |
| We had no electricity, no gas. Food was probably our greatest entertainment - the most fun thing that we could do was food. |
| I didn't want to do just another set of recipes. I think that's useless. |
| 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. We had something people don't get today. |
| 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 of my hometown! |
| 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. |
| What I think and what the world thinks is totally different. |
| 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. |
| 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 danger! |
| I love people, and I'm excited that I can turn them on. |
