My daughter always behaved in restaurants. And if she didn't, she's going out. I mean, one of the parents is going to take her outside. Immediately.

If you go to working class, and working poor areas of America, the food sources that are relegated to them are generally limited to unhealthy ones.

There is no other place on earth even remotely like New Orleans. Don't even try to compare it to anywhere else.

If you have a good experience in a restaurant, you tell 2 people. If you have a bad experience, you tell 10 people.

I guess my whole life, as much as I might have wanted a child for the reason that everybody wants one, I always recognized that at no point until I was 50 was I old enough or up to the job. I thought, you know what, I not only really want a child, but at this point, finally in my life, I think I'm up to the job and I'm the type of person who could do the job well and I'm financially prepared to look after a child.

My love of soft, runny cheese - it's impossible to resist.

The cookbooks I value the most in my collection are the ones where you hear the author's voice and point-of-view in every recipe.