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"I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can't see from the center."
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"I want to be a big, fleshy voluptuous woman with curves. I want a big bum, but I don't have one."
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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."

"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."

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

"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."

"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!"

"Some people absorb in different ways. I didn't realize until I was 15 years old how much I retained."
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