Why Talk About Good is the Cookbook in Every Cajun Kitchen

[MC Horoscope]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/food/how-a-50-year-old-community-cookbook-became-a-mainstay-in-almost-every-cajun-kitchen/2017/08/11/68fec85c-7e0c-11e7-83c7-5bd5460f0d7e_story.html?hpid=hp_regional-hp-cards_rhp-card-food%3Ahomepage%2Fcard&utm_term=.2f27dd32b360

 

There are 2 volumes. Volume 2 features the art of George Rodrigue, whose paintings of a mysterious blue dog were admired by a group of politicos who named their Blue Dog Coalition in reference to them.

[thistle]

I just saw this-https://www.facebook.com/epicurious/?fref=ts I have some of these & I plan on looking for others.  The Cajun cookbook mentioned is "Cooking up a Storm" by Marcella Bienvenu.  The only Cajun cookbooks I have right now are Donald Link's "Real Cajun" & "Down South"-both of them are excellent.

[MC Horoscope]

Yes, Cooking Up a Storm's used a lot at our house, as is Link's Real Cajun. I never made a good chicken and dumplings until I used his recipe! And his sauce piquante recipes are good too.  Unfortunately some of the recipes call for things we can't get. "Start with a sack of crawfish." Yeah, right.  "Make yourself a Ponce Bourré à la Teet's Grocery on the Ville Platte Road to Point Blue." Are you fricking kidding?

The cookbooks we've used most have been Paul Prudhomme's, especially his family cookbook with recipes from him and his many brothers and sisters. We use it for homey, everyday dishes like fried chicken, meatball stew, rice and gravy, biscuits, cornbread, jambalaya, mayonnaise, potato salad ... They are very detailed recipes and they don't tell you at the last minute "Did you remember to do this THIS a half hour ago?"