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

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

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.

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

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.

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