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.

I'm a professional cook. I've worked with other cooks from all over the world, but my family is not that way - they're always lived within 25 miles of my hometown!

We didn't do wrong things because we didn't want to embarrass our parents.

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 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.

Some people absorb in different ways. I didn't realize until I was 15 years old how much I retained.