That's new to us here, but I think if you learn about them, and learn about their food, that would help both sides. I say, tell me where your soul is, and I'll tell you what kind of food you want. If you're from China, you sure don't want what I'm cooking here, you'll want some good Chinese food. Its just a Southern thing. I always say, there are many good chefs in the white community, but Black people are more known for their cooking because we did it for so long.
Cooking is really from the heart.
I came here in 1942, I was eighteen years old, and I went to work for a woman in the French Quarter. That was wartime so they were hiring women for waiters. I didn't know one earthly thing about a restuarant because it was segregation. There were no restaurants as we know them today for Black people. This restaurant was started in 1939.