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

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

You don't need a silver fork to eat good food.

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!

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

Creole is New Orleans city food. Communities were created by the people who wanted to stay and not go back to Spain or France.

When the taste changes with every bite and the last bite tastes as good as the first, that's Cajun.

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!

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.

One of my missions was to teach.

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

If we have not peace within ourselves it is in vain to seek it from outward sources.

After I read all the medical journals and watched all the documentaries, I still didn't understand the physical sensation of ticking and where it comes from and what it feels like.

The first essential to success in the art you practice is respect for the art itself.

The greatest competition of idiocy and ignorance that has ever been.

Surprise is the enemy of prudence.

Weird heroes and mould-breaking champions exist as living proof to those who need it that the tyranny of 'the rat race' is not yet final.

There is nothing so small but that we may honor God by asking His guidance of it, or insult Him by taking it into our own hands.

He rarely knows the result of a battle when the battle is over.

The Nobel Prize is given as a personal award but it also honors the field of research in which I have worked and it also honors my students and colleagues.

Vladimir Putin is a dictator.