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

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.

My mother would put me on a wooden box at the stove and tell me to call her if certain things would happen. Like if the steam turns blue, that is danger!

Creole is New Orleans city food. Communities were created by the people who wanted to stay and not go back to Spain or France.

When I travel I normally eat club sandwiches or I bring my own food. When you go into a new town, it's very had to find a good place to eat.

I opened a restaurant that had nothing but California wines.