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.

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

Cajun is country food by farmers and fisherman that arrived in Louisiana from Acadiana, Canada.

I opened a restaurant that had nothing but California wines.

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

What I think and what the world thinks is totally different.

I would work as a cook, get a little money, then open another restaurant.