I Didn't Want To Do

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.

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 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!

We Had No Electricity, No Gas. Food Was Probably Our Greatest Entertainment - The Most Fun Thing That We Could Do Was Food.