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

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

" When I travel I normally eat club sandwiches or I bring my own food. When you go into a new town, it's very had to find a good place to eat. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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! "

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

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" I love people, and I'm excited that I can turn them on. "

" I'd like to have the first restaurant that can deliver incredible quality food to your table at your house at any time-right where you live. "

" 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'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 opened a restaurant that had nothing but California wines. "

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

" I believe in America. I'm one of those silly flag wavers. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

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