I opened a restaurant that had nothing but California wines.

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

I'd like to have the first restaurant that can deliver incredible quality food to your table at your house at any time-right where you live.

Have fun. Do something nobody else had done before, or has done since.

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

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.