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.

The bad part about being recognized is that when I walk into a restaurant and sit down, I've got to eat everything on the plate, whether it's good or bad. People would take it as an insult if I did otherwise.

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

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

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.

I didn't want to do just another set of recipes. I think that's useless.