Beignets Quotes

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

I love New Orleans.

I live in New Orleans part of the year, and it's a really fun eating town. I bought two homes there, one to live in and one as an investment. They love to eat, drink and dress up in costumes. There are so many reasons to dress up - Mardi Gras, Halloween, Southern Decadence.

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.

Cajuns eat Italian on Sundays.

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

New Orleans is one of my favorite cities in the entire world.

I'm from New Orleans, and I know that people do like to sit and talk and drink and, you know, have conversation; you have dialogue.

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

Where are the cops when you need them? (Nick) Probably eating beignets. As the old saying goes, when seconds count, the police are just minutes away. (Caleb)

Far Rockaway is like the New Orleans of New York.

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

New Orleans cuisine is Creole rather than Cajun.

It's a wonderful city and every American has enjoyed New Orleans in one way or the other.

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 has a lot of good food.