I would work as a cook, get a little money, then open another restaurant.
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.
We closed the restaurant in New Orleans and brought the entire staff to San Francisco. But we had to go home.
I love people, and I'm excited that I can turn them on.
Cajun is country food by farmers and fisherman that arrived in Louisiana from Acadiana, Canada.
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.
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!
