Some time in 1960s, businessmen with the Japanese electronics company Hitachi flew to southwest Louisiana, specifically, we are told, to Ville Platte. Of interest to them were the curiously high sales marks of their rice-cookers across a region otherwise alien to their products. At the time…
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Not every bouchiers toolkit looks the same. Given the Acadians reputation for homespun innovation and ad hoc ingenuity, you can bet that no task in a boucherie lacked the appropriate tool. This is the same group of improvisers that invented the amphibious crawfish boat with a flat-bottomed crawler…
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A Primer on Unpronounceable Cajun Foodstuffs By this point, even a cursory description of what goes…
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