ABOUT PAUL PRUDHOMME
Chef and restaurateur who established K-Paul's Louisiana Kitchen, a New Orleans Cajun-cuisine restaurant.
He opened his first restaurant, a hamburger joint, in 1957.
He published his cookbook, Chef Paul Prudhomme's Fork in the Road, in 1993.
He married Lori Bennett in 2010.
He and fellow chef Mario Batali were contemporaries.
