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"My parents were very supportive. They went to every show. And they never told me not to do what I was doing."

"My parents were absolutely delighted that I knew what I wanted to do."

"Grilling outside with my parents at the Jersey shore. We would grill lobster and corn in the summer."

"I was very lucky. My parents raised me in such a way that it never occurred to me that I wasn't equal."

"I could tell my parents hated me. My bath toys were a toaster and a radio."

"My parents had a pub and each Sunday there was an accordionist. They have told me that when I was in my cradle, I already was imitating the gestures of the musician."
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"It's the sense of what family is at the dinner table. It was the joy of knowing mother was in the kitchen making our favorite dish. I wish more people would do this and recall the joy of life."

"If you have acid in food, you need to sugar it. At a high temperature, the acids are changed to sugar."

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

"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."

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

"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."

"We closed the restaurant in New Orleans and brought the entire staff to San Francisco. But we had to go home."

"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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