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

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

I opened a restaurant that had nothing but California wines.

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.

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

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