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.
I believe in America. I'm one of those silly flag wavers.
When the taste changes with every bite and the last bite tastes as good as the first, that's Cajun.
We didn't do wrong things because we didn't want to embarrass our parents.
We're working people, and that's what we like to do, work.
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.