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

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!

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

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

Cajun is country food by farmers and fisherman that arrived in Louisiana from Acadiana, Canada.

You don't need a silver fork to eat good food.

I opened a restaurant that had nothing but California wines.