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

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.

New Orleans is like the bad-kid island in 'Pinocchio.'

New Orleans in an amazing town.

Mrs. Reilly called in that accent that occurs south of New Jersey only in New Orleans, that Hoboken near the Gulf of Mexico.