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

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!

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

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

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

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.

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