re: Someone should come to Florence, Alabama and start a Cajun Restaurant.

I grew up with two fully Cajun parents who cooked all of the time, and I'm still not sure what restaurant Cajun food is. We ate a shite ton of rice, usually with a grease gravy made from round steak or some type of pork. I've NEVER seen that served in a restaurant. A good deal of one pot, or dish, meals...which doesn't seem like restaurant fare either...overall I think Cajun food is something that doesn't translate well to a restaurant setting, only since it seems sort of cheap and unspectacular, albeit tasty and satisfying. Frying up seafood, although if a place could make my mom's fried shrimp they'd KILL it, and topping it with étouffée is something that was never done on any table I've ever seen. I think that's what Cajun restaurants are pushed to...blackening a fish or steak and topping it with a Cajun dish. It works, but I'd just rather the dish without the Cajun part. Leave my Drum naked please.