Paul Prudhomme

“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.”

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

“I'm just here and I'm doin' the best I can. If you don't understand that, then what can I do?”

“One of the problems of our youth is that the family unit is broken up. When we'd sit down to dinner together as a family, we'd learn about each other. We had something people don't get today...”

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

“We had no electricity, no gas. Food was probably our greatest entertainment - the most fun thing that we could do was food.”

“When you've got a great business going, you go open another and take the risk of losing the whole thing. It's fun!”

“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!”

“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.”

“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!”

“I opened a restaurant that had nothing but California wines.”

“We didn't do wrong things because we didn't want to embarrass our parents.”