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

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

We're working people, and that's what we like to do, work.

We had no electricity, no gas. Food was probably our greatest entertainment - the most fun thing that we could do was food.

Have fun. Do something nobody else had done before, or has done since.

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

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.