What I go for in my cooking is sinful, bold and real.

You can easily put together your own favorite spice blend, whether that's a salt and pepper mixture or you're adding herbs to it or Creole spice. Just watch out for the sodium content. That why I encourage you to make your own.

If somebody has a chance to put my food in their mouth, that tells the story.

When it ceases to be fun, I'll stop and just stay in my restaurants.

A lot of parents ask me how to get kids to eat more vegetables. The first thing I say is that it starts from the top.

I think all kids need snacks. Mine are fruit machines. I give them things like apple slices, berries and melon. Do I let them eat ice cream? Absolutely. But not every day.

The cool thing is that now that people have made this evolution where cooking is cool, people are doing it on weekends, they're doing their own challenges. It's back to cooking. And it's real cooking.