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

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" 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. "

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

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

" Don't get fancy. Have you cooked an apple pie? You don't know what you did wrong? Do this: Take two or three apples. Put them on a table. Study them. "

" 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! "

" 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! "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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