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Step by Step Cajun Cooking, Quick and Easy Hot and Spicy Cooking
Step by Step Cajun Cooking Quick and Easy Hot and Spicy Cooking Author:Judith Ferguson INTRODUCTION: "Driven from their lands in Canada by the British in the late 18th century, the people from the French colony of Acadia moved south to settle in the fertile bayou country of southern Louisiana. They made a home for themselves in the swampy, mysterous marshland around New Orleans, and a colorful Cajun culture, part ... more »French and part American, evolved.
The food was based on French country cooking, but adapted to the local ingredients. Cajun cooks exchanged ideas with Creole cooks, and some of the Spanish, West Indian and African influence of teh latter crept into the Cajun repertoire.
Booth Cajun and Creole cooking rely on seafood, rice, herbs, peppers and green onions as stabple ingredients, and both are frequently spicy and hot in charactr. What ever the siilarities or differences, one thing is certain, Cajun food is among the most spirited in America today."« less