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.

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

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

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!

I don't think life is to be taken too seriously. Take it too seriously, and it'll getcha.

I opened a restaurant that had nothing but California wines.