We trust something in a grocery store and assume it's good. We don't learn about the most precious thing in life-the food we put in our body. Educate yourself!

We closed the restaurant in New Orleans and brought the entire staff to San Francisco. But we had to go home.

I believe in America. I'm one of those silly flag wavers.

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

I opened my own restaurant when I was 17. I went broke, then traveled around the country, learning about different kinds of foods, had three other restaurants that went broke. It didn't all start just a few years ago!

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

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.