Adam Richman Quotes

My mom makes the best Cajun stuff. I'm a big gumbo guy. I've lost a lot of my Louisiana accent, so now when I say 'gumbo,' I feel like someone who's never said the word before.

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.

New Orleans cuisine is Creole rather than Cajun.

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

In America, there might be better gastronomic destinations than New Orleans, but there is no place more uniquely wonderful.

When I get down to Louisiana, I get to have a taste of some of that great food.

I can eat a lot of pizza. And I can cook. I'm from New Orleans, so it's just in my blood.

In America, I would say New York and New Orleans are the two most interesting food towns. In New Orleans, they don't have a bad deli. There's no mediocrity accepted.

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

I think Flip Wilson is a brillant comedian.

The most terrible fear that anybody should have is not war, is not a disease, not cancer or heart problems or food poisoning - it's a man or a woman without a sense of humor.

New Orleans has a lot of good food.

Cajuns eat Italian on Sundays.

For a long time, New Orleans was the classic-rock station of American cuisine, its reputation for flamboyance belying its playlist conservatism.

The French-Cajun culture is similar to mine - they're Catholic, they play accordions, and they eat hot chiles.

Jon: Our only thought is to entertain you! Garfield: Feed me.

When you eat a lot of spicy food, you can lose your taste. When I was in India last summer, I was listening to a lot of Michael Bolton.

There is the vegetarian Hot Pocket for those of us who don't want to eat meat, but would still like diarrhea.

I don't cook gumbo, but I just know it's a lot of good ingredients in it. And, with a movie, you got to have all those ingredients.

New Orleans food is as delicious as the less criminal forms of sin.

Laugh loudly, laugh often, and most important, laugh at yourself.

There is humor that's just whimsy, that we smile at, but the humor that we laugh at, someone has to be - someone's dignity has to be reduced.

Once or twice I've been described as a light comedian. I consider this the most accurate description of my abilities I've ever seen.

Over the weekend, of course, down there in Washington, D.C., they had the big White House Correspondents' Dinner. Do you know who was really funny? President Obama. So funny, in fact, he has already been promised 'The Tonight Show' in five years.

The stuff that I'm saying, they're not really traditional, structured jokes. It's not like I'm talking about growing up in Chicago or anything remotely close to that. It's basically me juggling words and concepts and phrases and being stupid.