Cajun is country food by farmers and fisherman that arrived in Louisiana from Acadiana, Canada.
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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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Have fun. Do something nobody else had done before, or has done since.
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I didn't want to do just another set of recipes. I think that's useless.
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I don't think life is to be taken too seriously. Take it too seriously, and it'll getcha.
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I love people, and I'm excited that I can turn them on.
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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 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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I would work as a cook, get a little money, then open another restaurant.
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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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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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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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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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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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One of my missions was to teach.
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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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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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We didn't do wrong things because we didn't want to embarrass our parents.
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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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We're working people, and that's what we like to do, work.
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What I think and what the world thinks is totally different.
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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.
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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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