We didn't do wrong things because we didn't want to embarrass our parents.

I opened my own restaurant when I was 17. I went broke, then traveled around the country, learning about different kinds of foods, had three other restaurants that went broke. It didn't all start just a few years ago!

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!

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

When you've got a great business going, you go open another and take the risk of losing the whole thing. It's fun!

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!

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