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

One of my missions was to teach.

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.

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

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.

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.