Raised in sSouthern Louisiana, it is not a surprise that Donald Link was engulfed with the culinary art of Cajun food from a young age. As a child he began to cook with his grandfather, which seeded a love for culinary. This later led him into beginning his professional cooking career at age of fifteen, working in little restaurants in Louisiana. He then took his budding enthusiasm and talents to San Francisco, where he further developed his culinary skills at the California Culinary Academy. In addition, he cooked at famous San Francisco eateries in his spare time, such as the Flying Saucer and Elite Café. Once he completed his culinary courses at the Academy, Chef Link returned to Louisiana where he opened the first of his five restaurants, Herbsaint in New Orleans with Chef Susan Spicer. The success of Herbsaint drove him to open another restaurant six years later in the spring of 2006. Link opened his tribute to the Cajun foods and techniques that sparked his now long and successful career, Cochon Restaurant in New Orleans. A year later, in 2007, Donald Link was nominated for the James Beard award for Best Chef of the South, while Cochon Restaurant was nominated for Best New Restaurant in the same year. In 2012 and 2013, Link was also nominated for honorable award of Outstanding Chef by the same foundation. Gourmet Magazine listed Herbsaint as one of the top fifty restaurants in America, and was inducted into the News Hall of Fame.
Through the Cochon Restaurant, Link was able to bring a slice of rural Louisiana to the city in New Orleans. With that, Cochon was named in the New York Times as one of the top three restaurants “that count” and was named one of twenty most important restaurants in America by Bon Appetite. For hi...
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The challenging and interesting life of a Cajun is characterized by family, music, housing, food, wedding, and ?traiteurs?, just to name a few. Cajun life began in the 1700?s and still exists today. Though a bit has changed since the early Cajuns arrived, the culture is still thriving. Acadiana is the best place to have a taste of the true Cajun culture and forever will be a colorful part of history.
Food is very important in people's culture. Everyone loves food, but not everyone enjoys eating the same food. For example, gumbo is an extremely common dish in Louisiana. People in Northern states might not know what gumbo is or they might cook it different. In Louisiana, we put seafood in our gumbo and some people even add sausage. We also like to make it spicy. Another food we love in the South is crawfish. We take a big pot, and add water with crawfish boil seasoning to make it spicy. Some people put corn and potatoes in there with the crawfish. Then, after it's done, you pour the crawfish on a table and everyone eats. Those are the two most known foods that people love in Louisiana.
Antoine’s’ is one of the oldest family ran restaurants in the USA.[] It was established in 1840, by Antoine Alciatore a French immigrant. His main inspiration was to bring a little bit of his home to New Orleans. It was a big help to him that the city was already filled with French speaking people; French dinning was naturally the next thing introduce to the city. He and his wife, Jules Alciatore like so many others came to America in search of wealth and prosperity.[] Pension Alciatore was the name of their first location and its aromatic odors wafting from their kitchen brought New Orleans to the door. By 1868 with increase of population, the official location of the restaurant became permanent on St. Louis Street; this where the restaurant stands today.
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The Cajuns are thrifty, determined, joyful, devoted people who settled in South Louisiana in 1759. The Cajuns had an affectionate nature that would precise itself in the gatherings of the community. The Cajuns enjoyed festivals, dancing, and food that are essential parts of bayou life. The Cajun was people who would make do with what they had. The Cajuns would work and play with equivalent enthusiasm. In Cajun Country, days rarely went by without cheers of praise to crawfish, rice, alligators, cotton, boudin, and gumbo all the needs of bayou life.
Conclusion: To conclude, Scott Conant is a very interesting chef that has been cooking for over 30 years. He is an Italian chef that has come a long way since his first interest in cooking when he was 11. Scott has opened many restaurants and continues to develop new restaurants and cookbooks to share his culinary excellence with the world!
Can you name just one famous southern Cajun recipe? Well I can and it’s my favorite Cajun meal. Its basic name is gumbo, but there are many gumbo recipes so I’ll be specific. My favorite is “New Chicken and Shrimp Gumbo” and it’s delicious. I got the recipe from a great cookbook. It’s called “Chef Paul Prudhomme’s Fork In The Road”. Would you like to learn how to make it? If so keep reading and follow along?
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For the last thirty years, Cracker Barrel Old Country Store, Inc. has been offering people on the highways of America an alternative to the fast food pit stop. Their restaurants serves home-style food, has quality gift shops and, most of all, a friendly and accommodating environment all go in to create a welcoming atmosphere. Making the guest comfortable is what makes them different. The waiters and waitresses let you take your time. You are seated and promptly drink orders are taken. They give the customer sufficient time to gaze over the menu. There are peg games on the table to occupy you or your young ones. If it is a game of checkers you wish, there is always a table in the corner ready to play.
My mother was a simple cook. She prepared foods she'd been raised on, plain Southern fare-rice, gravy, sliced tomatoes, turnip greens, cornpone, grits, eggs, chicken and dumplings, pot roast, ham, field peas, lima beans, potato salad, stewed okra, pumpkin pie, salmon balls. We didn't have fancy casseroles or lasagnas or spaghetti, and nobody had ever heard of a burrito or an egg roll. I didn't know what an artichoke or a parsnip or kiwi or papaya was-certainly had never taste them. We drank sweet iced tea and sometimes lemonade.
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The movie “The Hundred Foot Journey” is a great representation of different cultures interacting as well as the different food habits. The movie is based on an Indian family who moves to Italy and wants to open an Indian restaurant across street from a famous Italian restaurant in the small town. The Kadam family wants to bring the Indian cuisine to a new culture and share some of their values. They have trouble expanding their culinary delights to the public because Marquerite the sous-chef doesn’t want any competition. Throughout the movie, secrets on certain dishes are shared and tricks to improve the certain style of food is greatly appreciated by both restaurant chefs.