re: Cajun vs Creole

How do you know me? I don't live near you.

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Cajun is a rural, brownish type of food (unless you're making a sauce piquante. God, I love sauce piquante) created by displaced subsistence farmers and fishermen using available ingredients mixed with the cooking techniques they knew or learned from the natives (with a later massive German influence, i.e. smoked sausage) that developed into a damned tasty peasant cuisine all its own.

Creole is an urban, colorful, more cosmopolitan type of food created by an amalgamation of many different well-off cultures coming together and sharing the techniques and ingredients that they knew. That mixed with the techniques and ingredients of the poor people from Africa and the Caribbean and then developed into a refined city cuisine all its own, with far different ingredients and mindset than those of their neighbors to the West.

Basically, rural poor Cajuns making what they had available taste great and creating their simple cuisine that you want to cram into the noisemaker in your face vs. urban and not-so-poor people taking the fine food traditions of all the cultures making up NOLA and melding them to become the Creole cuisine that you also want to cram into the noisemaker in your face.

I find it amazing that we have two great cuisines roughly 100 miles apart that share only the very minimum of roots, yet both are fantastic in their own ways.

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Best post I've seen here on this topic. Nice job.

Cajun tends to be 'one pot' meals. Creole has different courses.

Didn't know I had to know someone. I don't know Obama and I think he's odd. Well actually I think he's a dumbass but nevertheless...

Meh...comme ci, comme ca. I guess I should have said "I think"

Sometime I just type shite. Since I've seen this thread a hundred times as with a lot if threads I tend to generalize. No offense. Odd to me is outlier which in general is something to be proud of.

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Mo Jeaux Vs Martini Vs MoJeaux Vs Martini

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If you kids don't quieten down and I have to get out of this recliner and come back there someone's butt is going to be hurting!



Now one of you come up here and get me another beer.

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I really don't think that would be a good description.

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NOLA

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Sometime I just type shite.

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me too. You're good people, martini.

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Cajun tends to be 'one pot' meals.

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I think this was true a hundred and fifty years ago, but over time Cajun mixed with German and African American and evolved with more grilled meats, smothered vegetables, and rice and gravy.

One pot meals are far less the majority representation of Cajun cooking today.

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but what do yall call Louisiana food from Shreveport and Monroe?

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Arkansas swill.