What I think and what the world thinks is totally different.

Have fun. Do something nobody else had done before, or has done since.

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.

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.

One of my missions was to teach.

I wait for the next opportunity to have something to do with food. If I get rested, my mind just starts creating new dishes - click, click, click.

When the taste changes with every bite and the last bite tastes as good as the first, that's Cajun.