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We didn't do wrong things because we didn't want to embarrass our parents.
Paul Prudhomme
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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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We closed the restaurant in New Orleans and brought the entire staff to San Francisco. But we had to go home.
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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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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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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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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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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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I believe in America. I'm one of those silly flag wavers.
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Some people absorb in different ways. I didn't realize until I was 15 years old how much I retained.
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Cajun is country food by farmers and fisherman that arrived in Louisiana from Acadiana, Canada.
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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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What I think and what the world thinks is totally different.
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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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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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