re: Baton Rouge area "Cajun" food sucks

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Did you ever see the Beat Bobby Flay episode when he came to New Orleans to battle for Jambalaya?

He made it with something like mussels and safron rice and shite.

I'm not saying we could compete with them on any dish, but are there a few Cajun or coonasses from generations of homegrown cooks that could compete on our turf with our foods? Absolutely.

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It’s amazing that a few here can’t admit a simple point.


I mean, if I was a 5 Star chef and went to Thailand and watched them cook and read some recipes I still wouldn’t have the audacity to think I knew how to cook authetic Thai food.

This isn’t fricking Midwest cusiine we are talking about. There’s a distinct nuance to S. LA cooking.

We may have a lot of shite wrong but food isn’t one of them, and fricking NOLA doesn’t have a monopoly on good food.