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Cajun food has become a popular ""ethnic"" food throughout America during the last decade. This fascinating book explores the significance of Cajun cookery on its home turf in south Louisiana, a region marked by startling juxtapositions of the new and the old, the nationally standard and the locally unique. Neither a cookbook nor a restaurant guide, Cajun Foodways gives interpretation to the meaning of traditional Cajun food from the perspective of folklife studies and cultural anthropology. The author takes into account the modern regional popular culture in examining traditional foo
Cajuns --- Food habits --- Cooking, Cajun. --- Cajuns --- Folklore. --- Social life and customs. --- Louisiana --- Social life and customs.
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"Much like John T. Edge's Southern Belly in conception but with a more focused regional scope, this book gets at the culture and foodways of the Mississippi Delta through lively descriptions of the region's restaurants, following a geographical path chapter by chapter from Memphis to Vicksburg. Introductions to each chapter as well as box features bring out historical and social context, highlighting famous deltans like Mose Allison and Jim Henson as well as interesting regional topics like "the Fighting Okra" or the annual spaghetti gravy cookoff. Puckett has included ca. 65 recipes, each with a connection to one of the restaurants or featured individuals (Memphis Barbecue Pizza, for example. as favored by Elvis.) Photographs by Langdon Clay illuminate diners, restaurant settings, streetscapes, and shots of Delta life"--
TRAVEL / United States / South / East South Central (AL, KY, MS, TN). --- COOKING / Regional & Ethnic / American / Southern States. --- COOKING / History. --- Cooking, American --- Confederate cooking --- Cooking, Confederate --- Cooking, Southern (United States) --- Southern cooking (United States) --- Cooking, Louisiana --- Louisiana cooking --- Cooking, Cajun --- Cooking, Creole --- Southern style. --- Louisiana style. --- Confederate style --- Louisiana style --- Delta (Miss. : Region) --- Mississippi Delta (Miss. : Region) --- Yazoo Delta (Miss. : Region) --- Yazoo Mississippi Delta (Miss. : Region)
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