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

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

" The bad part about being recognized is that when I walk into a restaurant and sit down, I've got to eat everything on the plate, whether it's good or bad. People would take it as an insult if I did otherwise. "

" I'm a professional cook. I've worked with other cooks from all over the world, but my family is not that way - they're always lived within 25 miles of my hometown! "

" I think the most wonderful thing in the world is another chef. I'm always excited about learning new things about food. "

" One of the problems of our youth is that the family unit is broken up. When we'd sit down to dinner together as a family, we'd learn about each other. We had something people don't get today. "

" One of my missions was to teach. "

" I'm just here and I'm doin' the best I can. If you don't understand that, then what can I do? "

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

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

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

" After failing four times and after working for other people and realizing that nobody paid attention to the food like they should have, we wanted to just pay attention to the food and service. "

" Have fun. Do something nobody else had done before, or has done since. "

" I would work as a cook, get a little money, then open another restaurant. "

" I wait for the next opportunity to have something to do with food. If I get rested, my mind just starts creating new dishes - click, click, click. "

" It's the sense of what family is at the dinner table. It was the joy of knowing mother was in the kitchen making our favorite dish. I wish more people would do this and recall the joy of life. "

" 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! "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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! "

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

" When I am done with this meal you can have my life. It is heaven. "

" We're working people, and that's what we like to do, work. "