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

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.

Creole is New Orleans city food. Communities were created by the people who wanted to stay and not go back to Spain or France.

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.

One of my missions was to teach.

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