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" We didn't do wrong things because we didn't want to embarrass our parents. "
Paul Prudhomme
Things
Wrong
Because
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" 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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" I think the most wonderful thing in the world is another chef. I'm always excited about learning new things about food. "
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" When you've got a great business going, you go open another and take the risk of losing the whole thing. It's fun! "
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" 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! "
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" 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! "
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World
" Cajun is country food by farmers and fisherman that arrived in Louisiana from Acadiana, Canada. "
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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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Go
" 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. "
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Started
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" Have fun. Do something nobody else had done before, or has done since. "
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Have Fun
Before
Done
" 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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Food
" I opened a restaurant that had nothing but California wines. "
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Restaurant
Nothing
Had
" 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. "
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Nobody
Food
Service
" If you have acid in food, you need to sugar it. At a high temperature, the acids are changed to sugar. "
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Changed
High
Need
" We're working people, and that's what we like to do, work. "
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Like
Work
Working
" 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. "
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Place
Find
Travel
" When I am done with this meal you can have my life. It is heaven. "
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Done
I Am
You
" I'm just here and I'm doin' the best I can. If you don't understand that, then what can I do? "
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Just
You
Here
" 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. "
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Restaurant
Eat
Good
" 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. "
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Apples
Apple
You
" One of my missions was to teach. "
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Teach
Missions
" 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. "
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Life
Family
Joy
" Some people absorb in different ways. I didn't realize until I was 15 years old how much I retained. "
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Years
Some People
Realize
" 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. "
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Opportunity
Mind
Wait
" I would work as a cook, get a little money, then open another restaurant. "
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Money
Open
Work
" We had no electricity, no gas. Food was probably our greatest entertainment - the most fun thing that we could do was food. "
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Food
Fun
" I believe in America. I'm one of those silly flag wavers. "
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I Believe
America
Believe
" I don't think life is to be taken too seriously. Take it too seriously, and it'll getcha. "
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Think
Take
Seriously
" 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! "
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Me
Mother
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" What I think and what the world thinks is totally different. "
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I Think
Thinks
Different