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

Some people absorb in different ways. I didn't realize until I was 15 years old how much I retained.

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!

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.

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

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

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