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Posted on 4/3/09 at 2:19 pm to HebertFest08
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Ville Platte
best cooks in the state. hands down. need to try to make it to the smoked meat festival on the last weekend in june. you won't be dissappointed.
Posted on 4/3/09 at 2:21 pm to Zach
I say Acadiana is a lean, but I am a little partial. I am from the heart of Acadiana sooo... 
Posted on 4/3/09 at 2:22 pm to el tigre
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4. River Parishes - can find good stuff, but damn they love the tony's too much.
I never use "Tony's". It sucks. I only use LeBlanc's.
Gonzales area of course has the best cooks of any region by a large margin.
This post was edited on 4/3/09 at 2:44 pm
Posted on 4/3/09 at 2:27 pm to HebertFest08
People in No. La. do not cook at "home" which is the title of the thread. When they do, they make steak/potatoes or deep fry. They are into BBQ since we're almost part of Texas but I've never had BBQ up here in the last 30 years that was any better than the BBQ I had in Acadiana.
One cultural difference is gender. Men in Acadiana cook. Men up here don't. The women cook and they're not that good at it. Lots of feminists up here who don't want to spend the time learning how to do it right.
One cultural difference is gender. Men in Acadiana cook. Men up here don't. The women cook and they're not that good at it. Lots of feminists up here who don't want to spend the time learning how to do it right.
Posted on 4/3/09 at 2:27 pm to tigerdup07
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Ville Platte
best cooks in the state. hands down. need to try to make it to the smoked meat festival on the last weekend in june. you won't be dissappointed.
yeah, that's a good time.
I put the avoyelles area, just b/c i know a few astoundingly good cooks from that area.....versatile as well. Ville Platte is close to Marksville are as well. Ville Plate seems to draw from the more rural areas to the north more than the Lafayette area. Probably why i enjoy the VP area's cooking even more than the Lafayatte area.
Posted on 4/3/09 at 2:35 pm to el tigre
Iberia Parish!!!!
Represent!!!!
(sorry for the white trash)
Represent!!!!
(sorry for the white trash)
This post was edited on 4/3/09 at 2:36 pm
Posted on 4/3/09 at 2:36 pm to pochejp
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Gonzales area of course has the best cooks of any region by a large margin.
let's include G-town in the BR area. And there really are some very good home cooks in Gonzales.
Posted on 4/3/09 at 2:36 pm to el tigre
Jonesville.
That Block High home ec class makes the best over easy eggs (with just the right amount of runny whites) that you will ever put salt and pepper on.
That Block High home ec class makes the best over easy eggs (with just the right amount of runny whites) that you will ever put salt and pepper on.
Posted on 4/3/09 at 2:41 pm to el tigre
The family had a farm outside Opelousas, I think a couple of his brothers and sisters worked resturants in Laf if I remember right. It was a big family. One of his sisters was a good friend of my grandparents, as was Tony Chacheres family.
I think Paul traveled around the country to hone his skill's before becoming head chef at Commanders
I think Paul traveled around the country to hone his skill's before becoming head chef at Commanders
Posted on 4/3/09 at 3:04 pm to el tigre
Acadiana!! St. Mary Parish represent!!! 
Posted on 4/3/09 at 5:24 pm to PokerPastime
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As someone who has met a few of the Prudhomme family personally, I am sure his Mom is glad that someone in New Orleans taught him how to cook Cajun Cuisine.
I guess what I should have said was that most people around the world would associated these chefs with New Orleans, IMHO. I obviously misspoke when saying their careers took off from New Orleans and creole/cajun cuisine.
Now to answer the question I would have to say the greater New Orleans area. Not only because that is the food I was personally raised on (which we are all be bias to) and is in my opinion the best food, but because of the culture of the people. They are the most inviting people in the world, they will literally force you to sit down and be fed. Friend's moms that I've met for the first time not allowing me to leave the house until you have some gumbo or an endless supply of other favorites, homemade roastbeef poboys the list goes on. I have never experienced the hospitality that I've seen in New Orleans in any other place in the world, and in my opinion that makes them the BEST home cooks.
Posted on 4/3/09 at 5:50 pm to Kajungee
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I think Paul traveled around the country to hone his skill's before becoming head chef at Commanders
Yep. Prudhomme's own words follow:
quote:
When I was seventeen, not fully knowing what was happening, not realizing why, I set out to become a cook. (The only thing I knew for sure was that I enjoyed eating!) I traveled around the country for twelve years, working full time at restaurants with chefs of every professional and ethnic background. In addition to learning new techniques and methods and the cuisines of various parts of the country, I shared my own heritage of cooking by fixing Cajun and Creole dishes. I was struck by the reactions to my food, from people all over the country. I began to understand how unique the traditional foods of my family were. I came to realize that the joy of cooking Cajun and Creole food was not that I appreciated its goodness so much, but that there was this great pleasure I got from watching other people eat it and seeing the joy in their eyes. At the same time, I would notice when I returned home for visits that my Cajun family and friends didn't seem to recognize the uniqueness of their cooking. I felt it was one of those situations where if you see something every day, you don't see it; if you taste something every day, you don't realize that it's unique.
That's one of the things that led me back to Louisiana. And I decided that Louisiana was the place to cook, not only because it was important to me to keep the Cajun culture alive, but because the most creative cooking in the nation was going on in Louisiana. Cooks and cooking as an art were most appreciated here.
Posted on 4/3/09 at 6:03 pm to ThePlumber
I think this is pretty much impossible to quantify.
I'll just chalk it up as anyone south of 1-190 from the TX border to the Miss border.
Can't go wrong anywhere in that geographical region.
Whatever floats your boat culinarily, can be had here.
I'll just chalk it up as anyone south of 1-190 from the TX border to the Miss border.
Can't go wrong anywhere in that geographical region.
Whatever floats your boat culinarily, can be had here.
This post was edited on 4/3/09 at 6:04 pm
Posted on 4/3/09 at 8:08 pm to Martini
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Jonesville.
That Block High home ec class makes the best over easy eggs (with just the right amount of runny whites) that you will ever put salt and pepper on.
I live ten miles from Jonesville, was it really necessary to make fun of us ?? Good cooks here too !!
Louisiana is very diverse with our cooking. I really can't think of a bad area to eat. If we are only talking seafood though, I have to give Acadiana the vote !!
Posted on 4/3/09 at 8:13 pm to el tigre
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1. BR - more diverse cross section of styles.
It sort of makes it quite a crapshoot, though.
You're as likely to run across some of the most horrible whitebread type dreck (think like that food network show, Semi-Homemade, but much worse) at households in BR, as you are something really good and noteworthy. At least that's been my experience.
Posted on 4/3/09 at 8:18 pm to Y.A. Tittle
oh i agree.
but i really value variety, esp with lousiana foods. Most tend to be really heavy and i get burnt out on them if there aren't other options for a change of paces.
but i really value variety, esp with lousiana foods. Most tend to be really heavy and i get burnt out on them if there aren't other options for a change of paces.
Posted on 4/3/09 at 8:18 pm to Tiger Attorney
quote:+1
Acadiana...and the rest are not even close. I have family from across SELA...this is not even a competition.
Posted on 4/3/09 at 9:18 pm to el tigre
Anywhere. I love Louisianan cooking
Posted on 4/3/09 at 9:25 pm to el tigre
acadiana
baton rouge should definitely not be first
baton rouge should definitely not be first
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