Advertise Here Cajun Cooking Im from New Orleans La, and every time I go out of town or in a city. I see some sort of restaurant advertising cajun cooking and creole food. Most of the time I check out the restaurant because I miss home so much I decided to try my so call [...]
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Cajun Cooking Why Do People Try To Imitate Gumbo
Creole, griffe, quadroon, mulatto, or other? Whats my heritage?
I’ve been wondering this for quite sometime. My family was raised in Louisiana and I was even born in central Louisana but I am stilled confused exactly what I am classified. My mom’s family is creole by heritage and blood- her grandparents immigrants her mother and aunts spoke fluent subgroups of french up until the [...]
Destination Haitian Cuisine
Haitian food is similar to the rest of the Latin-Caribbean (the French and the Spanish-speaking countries of the Antilles) however it differs in several ways from its regional counterparts. Its primary influence derive from French, and African cuisine, with notable derivatives from native Taíno and Spanish culinary technique. Though similar to other cooking styles in [...]
English to french translation please?
Located in the heart of the Caribbean archipelago, Martinique is one of the Windward islands in the Lesser Antilles group. It is an overseas department of France and retains both French and Caribbean culture. The island cuisine is a superb blend of French and Creole cooking that is worth trying. The north part of island [...]
Trinidadian French Creole- The Flavour of a Fading Creole (Final Edit)
The Flavour of a Fading Creole is a short study of the last users of Trinidadian French-lexicon Creole, in the community of Paramin in Trinidad. We hear the language through the voices of its last remaining speakers, and get a taste of its culture through a presentation of Trinidadian French Creole cuisine, flavoured by the [...]
Why do people imitate Gumbo recipe?
Im from New Orleans La, and every time I go out of town or in a city. I see some sort of restaurant advertising cajun creole food. Most of the time I check out the restaurant because I miss home so much I decided to try my so call home food. Needless to say it [...]
Trinidadian French Creole: Part 1 – The Flavour of a Fading Creole
This video documents Trinidadian French Creole, a dying language, as it is spoken by some of its last speakers, in the community of Paramin in North Trinidad. It shows these speakers and their culture, in particular the food which they grow and their styles of cooking. This video is part of the Caribbean Indigenous and [...]
Ultimate Cajun Cookbook?
I have a small collection of random cajun / creole cookbooks, but I am curious if there is one that sums up the food and culture to a T. Everything from the standard fare to the most unusual…. Been cooking cajun/ creole food since I visited back in 96, but the recipes are getting old… [...]
Cajun cooks: What are you going to use to replace oysters with in your recipes?
I already ran out of raw ones in my freezer, but I’m not so sure I’m ready to go this route: http://saintsempire.com/index.php?topic=799.0 . Slugs… Hmmm….Never had one. Another thing I was wondering about was snails. I have never had them, but they are a delicacy in many cultures. However, here in the USA, they’re expensive [...]

