The Creole and Cajun Recipe Page. "New Orleans food is as delicious as the less criminal forms of sin. " -- Mark Twain, 1884 by Chuck Taggart ( email ), Native New Orleanian, and damn good cook (albeit a modest one, of course) Bienvenue à vous-autres! Welcome to the Creole and Cajun Recipe Page! Here we celebrate the marvelous Creole cuisine of New Orleans, and the hearty cooking of Acadiana (or "Cajun country"). You'll also find some culinary basics -- stocks, sauces, seasonings, and the like -- as well as a few tastes of many other regional and world cuisines. Beware, all ye who enter here -- Louisiana (and especially New Orleans) has, in my not-so-humble opinion, the best cuisine in the world. However, several of the dishes within these pages are indeed pretty good for you, and with some creative substitutions you can make them much more healthy.
Before you ask the inevitable question, "What's the difference between Creole and Cajun? " Know Your Ingredients . Mail-order Sources . Use the Search Engine . Recipes - A Cajun Home Page. Bayou Sauce Picante. Cajun and Creole Recipes. Jblond3 Highway 61 rises from mists as gray as the uniforms of the men who once fought here as it leaves Vicksburg. Meandering through the Mississippi Delta, you pass through hundreds of sleepy towns on your way to the city that never sleeps The Big Easy – New Orleans! Being a seaport, this Southern city’s cuisine was flavored by people from many lands. African slaves, Native Americans, and Caribbean seamen added their flavors to the cuisine of the melting pot that became New Orleans.
The first settlers were French, usually the second-born sons of aristocrats who left France to seek adventure in the New World. They brought their traditional style of cooking from the continent, and being rich aristocrats, they also brought along their chefs as well! The next group was displaced French-speaking people from the Acadia region of Nova Scotia. Cajun vs. Creole is the food of the city, a more refined cuisine represented by Oysters Rockefeller, Shrimp Remoulade and Bananas Foster.
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