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Book Synopsis Exploring Cajun Country by : Cheré Dastugue Coen
Download or read book Exploring Cajun Country written by Cheré Dastugue Coen and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2011-12-05 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Louisiana's famous Cajun Country is a place where today's travelers can still experience the rich heritage and traditions that began in the eighteenth century. From foodways and folktales to music and festivals, Acadiana offers something you can't get anywhere else. Journey through this historic and unique part of the state with travel writer and historian Cher Coen as your guide Experience Cajun Country through its exceptional cuisine, area events, and historic attractions.
Book Synopsis CAJUN JOURNEY. by : C MARSHALL. TURNER
Download or read book CAJUN JOURNEY. written by C MARSHALL. TURNER and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Acadiana written by Carl A. Brasseaux and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2011-05-18 with total page 708 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Acadiana" summons up visions of a legendary and exotic world of moss-draped cypress, cocoa-colored bayous, subtropical wildlife, and spicy indigenous cuisine. The ancestral home of Cajuns and Creoles, this twenty-two-parish area of south Louisiana encompasses a broad range of people, places, and events. In their historical and pictorial tour of the region, author Carl A. Brasseaux and photographer Philip Gould explore in depth this fascinating and complex world. As passionate documentarians of all things Cajun and Creole, Brasseaux and Gould delve into the topography, culture, and economy of Acadiana. In two hundred color photographs of architecture, landscapes, wildlife, and artifacts, Gould portrays the rich history still visible in the area, while Brasseaux's engagingly written narrative covers the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century story of settlement and development in the region. Brasseaux brings the story up to date, recounting devastating hurricanes and coastal degradation. From living-history attractions such as Vermilionville, the Acadian Village, and Longfellow-Evangeline State Park to music venues, festivals, and crawfish boils, Acadiana depicts a resilient and vibrant way of life and presents a vivid portrait of a culture that continues to captivate, charm, and endure. For all those who want to explore these people and this place, Brasseaux and Gould have provided an insightful written and visual history.
Download or read book A Cajun Life written by Meredith Brown and published by . This book was released on 2021-12-03 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Cajun Life is a tale of love, loss, grief and recovery as Clovis and his son Jacques come of age in the heart of Cajun country. Clovis falls in love with Celeste at the tender age of thirteen. The story follows Clovis as he grows into a man and asks Celeste to marry him. They overcome initial opposition by Celeste's father and marry in the summer of 1941. The young couple's love is strained when Clovis wants to enlist in the Marines after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. They survive that rough patch and manage to stay strong throughout Clovis's absences during the war. Tragically, Celeste dies a few short weeks after delivering their son, Jacques. Celeste's dying wish is unusual and controversial in the 1940s rural south---she asks her black housekeeper, Tallulah, to care for her son until Clovis returns from the war. Tallulah and her daughter, Marion, care for Jacques, just as they promised until the war ends and Clovis returns home. Upon arriving home, Clovis is distracted from being a father due to the loss of his wife, his workload at his business and his alcoholism brought on by post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) as a by-product of combat in the battle of Iwo Jima. Tallulah and Marion give Jacques the motherly love every child needs. He also receives and lessons and guidance from Dubuclet, the sage of Bayou Teche, and Jacques's and Marion's teacher. Dubuclet is an intellectual from a wealthy family whose old sugar plantation is located just outside of New Orleans. He received an excellent education from universities in Europe and now spends his days in a small, cypress cottage on the banks of Bayou Teche. Dubuclet's dream was to teach, but the local school boards in Louisiana would not hire a black man despite his academic credentials and passion for teaching. Due to a strange turn of events, Dubuclet's dream of teaching in an integrated school becomes a reality but not without a clash with those who don't want an integrated school. Jacques grows into a headstrong teenager who finds himself in several precarious situations. At his wit's end, Clovis asks Dubuclet for advice. Dubuclet recommends giving Jacques more substantial responsibilities. Clovis turns over the management of the family homestead, Bellevue, to Jacques who flourishes with the new responsibility. Jacques's moral courage is tested when he goes to New Iberia to help his extended family bring in the rice harvest and help maintain the machinery at the rice mill. One of the employees, Karl, feels threatened by Jacques and bullies him. The bullying ends when Jacques witnesses Karl commit a heinous crime. Jacques tells his elder cousin what he witnessed between Karl and a homeless girl. Jacques's eye witness account is supported by an unlikely source, Karl's girlfriend, Monika. A Cajun Life closes with Jacques's decision to attend college at Audubon University in New Orleans. During the trip to the bus station in Morgan City, Clovis realizes he was not open enough with Jacques over the years. This being the last opportunity, Clovis, with tears streaming down his fact, tells Jacques that he loves him. Cajun history, traditions, and culture are common threads throughout the book. Cajuns' began to settle in south Louisiana in the mid-1700s, after their expulsion by British forces from modern day Nova Scotia. A Cajun Life also provides insight to readers about Marine Corps culture through Clovis's war time experiences. The battle of Iwo Jima war scenes gives the reader a glimpse into the ravages of war and a small understanding of the battle that was a turning point in the war against the Japanese in the 1940's.
Book Synopsis The Louisiana Journey by : Terry L. Jones
Download or read book The Louisiana Journey written by Terry L. Jones and published by Gibbs Smith. This book was released on 2007 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Cajun in France:Journeys to Assimilations by : Sidney Bellard
Download or read book A Cajun in France:Journeys to Assimilations written by Sidney Bellard and published by . This book was released on 2016-11-25 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sidney "Pierre" Bellard is not a celebrity, but for an American, he has lived a most unusual life. His first language is Cajun French, and of his father's lineage, he was the first to be a high school and college graduate. His Cajun parents only spoke a little broken English and could write only their names. No, they were not recent immigrants; their ancestors had been in America well before there was a United States or a state of Louisiana. While most subsequent immigrants to America achieved assimilation within two generations, Pierre's direct paternal family line, due to isolation and subsequent sharecropper lifestyle, took ten or more generations before one of its members, Pierre, achieved assimilation in the 1960's.Travel with Pierre on his journey to three assimilations into three different cultures where he encountered challenges such as the language barrier, lack of family educational values, relative poverty, discrimination and the chains of insecurity. Eventually, he developed two major drives that were antithetical to each other, two drives he did not become aware of until the writing of this book. The first was to master the English Language and the second was to achieve literacy in standard French.Except for Native Americans, everyone in the New World is an immigrant or descendant of immigrants. It is the author's desire that readers will become more aware of their heritage and respect the difficult transitions their ancestors endured to achieve the American dream and make their lives, as they know it, possible. Also, the reader is invited to discover France and its people through the author's experiences and impressions, experiences there that enriched his life immeasurably. Finally, as a lagniappe (a little something extra), Pierre has included a few of his personal Cajun recipes. Bon app�tit.
Book Synopsis A Cajun Girl's Sharecropping Years by : Viola Fontenot
Download or read book A Cajun Girl's Sharecropping Years written by Viola Fontenot and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2018-07-05 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2019 Humanities Book of the Year from the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities Today sharecropping is history, though during World War II and the Great Depression sharecropping was prevalent in Louisiana's southern parishes. Sharecroppers rented farmland and often a small house, agreeing to pay a one-third share of all profit from the sale of crops grown on the land. Sharecropping shaped Louisiana's rich cultural history, and while there have been books published about sharecropping, they share a predominately male perspective. In A Cajun Girl's Sharecropping Years, Viola Fontenot adds the female voice into the story of sharecropping. Spanning from 1937 to 1955, Fontenot describes her life as the daughter of a sharecropper in Church Point, Louisiana, including details of field work as well as the domestic arts and Cajun culture. The account begins with stories from early life, where the family lived off a gravel road near the woods without electricity, running water, or bathrooms, and a mule-drawn wagon was the only means of transportation. To gently introduce the reader to her native language, the author often includes French words along with a succinct definition. This becomes an important part of the story as Fontenot attends primary school, where she experienced prejudice for speaking French, a forbidden and punishable act. Descriptions of Fontenot's teenage years include stories of going to the boucherie; canning blackberries, figs, and pumpkins; using the wood stove to cook dinner; washing and ironing laundry; and making moss mattresses. Also included in the texts are explanations of rural Cajun holiday traditions, courting customs, leisure activities, children's games, and Saturday night house dances for family and neighbors, the fais do-do.
Book Synopsis Very New Orleans by : Diana Hollingsworth Gessler
Download or read book Very New Orleans written by Diana Hollingsworth Gessler and published by Algonquin Books. This book was released on 2013-06-14 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The exquisite antebellum mansions of the Garden District. Giant oaks stretching across boulevards and back in time to before the Civil War. The decadence of Bourbon Street. The vibrant sounds of jazz, blues, and Cajun music coming from every doorway or right from the street. Lacy iron balconies that wrap around the historic buildings of the French Quarter. A leisurely meal under a canopy of wisteria. In vibrant watercolors and detailed sketches, artist Diana Gessler captures the unique charm that makes New Orleans alluring: Mardi Gras, the Cabildo, Jackson Square, the Court of the Two Sisters, St. Louis Cemetery, the Jazz Festival, the River Road Plantations, the Cajun country, sumptuous Creole cuisine, and Audubon’s Aquarium of the Americas. In fascinating detail—on everything from the making of Mardi Gras, Napolean’s death mask, the city’s inspired architectural and garden designs, and favorite author hangouts to famous New Orleanians and Aunt Sally’s Creole pralines—Very New Orleans celebrates the city, the Cajun country, the people, and our history
Download or read book A Golf Journey written by and published by iUniverse. This book was released on with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Cajun Vegan Cookbook by : Krimsey Lilleth
Download or read book The Cajun Vegan Cookbook written by Krimsey Lilleth and published by Blue Star Press. This book was released on 2022-09-27 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Plant-based foodies rejoice: you can finally indulge in New Orleans' iconic cuisine thanks to the 130+ recipes in this first-ever Cajun vegan cookbook. Classic dishes like jambalaya, étouffée, gumbo, and hushpuppies have gone vegan in this delicious cookbook which blends Louisiana's beloved flavor profiles with plant-forward ingredients that are fresh and sustainable, yet still authentic and delicious. 130+ recipes inspired by the Big Easy (including 90+ gluten-free options): • Breakfasts and Breads: Molasses & Roasted Pecan Pancakes, Backwoods Buttermilk Biscuits and Gray, and Strawberry Peach Heart Tarts • Soups, Salads, and Poboys: Southern Belle Pepper Salad, Gulf Coast Oyster Mushroom Soup, and Swamp Queen Poboy • Entrees: Heart of the Bayou Étouffée, Jambalaya Collard Wraps, and Chili-Rubbed Butternut Squash Steaks • Sides: Fried Green Tomatoes, Kale & Tempeh'd Black-Eyed Peas, and Cajun Potato Wedges • Dressings, Sauces, and Toppings: Tangy Tabasco Dressing, Cajun Nacho Sauce, and Smoky Maple "Bacon" Bits • Desserts: French Quarter Beignets, Cinnamon King Cake, and Salted Pecan Pralines • Drinks: Jalapeño Cauldron Lemonade, Café Au Lait, and Hurricane Party Each of the recipes was created under the influence of powdered sugar, café au lait, Louisiana jazz, and a sprinkling of '90s jams by Krimsey Lilleth, founder of the late-and-great Los Angeles restaurant Krimsey's Cajun Kitchen. May this cookbook inspire you to try new things, have fun with your food, and be reminded that life is one big party. Enjoy! “Krimsey’s restaurant was a real favorite of ours. We had her food at Billie’s rehearsals often…fortunately for all of us, she just put out a Cajun vegan cookbook.” - Maggie Baird, mother of Billie Eilish and FINNEAS and founder of the plant-based food initiative Support+Feed
Book Synopsis Complete Cajun Cookbook by : Ryan Boudreaux
Download or read book Complete Cajun Cookbook written by Ryan Boudreaux and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2021-12-28 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cook like a Cajun with 100 authentic recipes Cajun food has deep roots in home-style country cooking and the rich heritage of Cajun culture, which combine to create unique flavors you can't find anywhere else. The Complete Cajun Cookbook makes it simple to capture those flavors in your own kitchen, with detailed instructions for mastering regional cooking techniques and a comprehensive collection of beloved recipes. What differentiates this book from other New Orleans cookbooks: An overview of Cajun cooking—Get a crash course on the history of Cajun cuisine, and learn how to master regional cooking techniques. Tips for stocking a Cajun kitchen—Discover the ingredients that set Cajun cuisine apart, and find an easy recipe for throwing together your own Cajun seasoning. Classic and creative recipes—Explore an enticing mix of traditional favorites and modern Cajun cooking, from Seafood Gumbo to Corn Maque Choux. Bring home the vibrant flavors of New Orleans with this top choice in Louisiana cookbooks.
Book Synopsis The complete travel guide for Louisiana by :
Download or read book The complete travel guide for Louisiana written by and published by YouGuide Ltd. This book was released on with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At YouGuide™, we are dedicated to bringing you the finest travel guides on the market, meticulously crafted for every type of traveler. Our guides serve as your ultimate companions, helping you make the most of your journeys around the world. Our team of dedicated experts works tirelessly to create comprehensive, up-todate, and captivating travel guides. Each guide is a treasure trove of essential information, insider insights, and captivating visuals. We go beyond the tourist trail, uncovering hidden treasures and sharing local wisdom that transforms your travels into extraordinary adventures. Countries change, and so do our guides. We take pride in delivering the most current information, ensuring your journey is a success. Whether you're an intrepid solo traveler, an adventurous couple, or a family eager for new horizons, our guides are your trusted companions to every country. For more travel guides and information, please visit www.youguide.com
Download or read book Journey’S End written by Jacqueline Pere and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2011-01-27 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With no husband and no children, and no prospects on the horizon, twenty-nine-year-old Judith Marchand believes shes destined to lead a lonely librarians life in her small town. But a classified ad intrigues her, and shes soon on her way to restore the private library of the de Lanvilles, a prominent southern Louisiana family. What she doesnt know is that this ideal job will also lead her down a path rife with seduction and murder. Shes enthralled with Journeys End, the familys mansion. Against her better judgment, she finds herself falling in love with her mysterious employer, David de Lanville, a man who admits he once tried killing his brother Beau. Tensions run high at Journeys End, and the situation worsens when David is arrested for the beating and rape of a local young womanjust one of several suspicious incidents in this rural area near New Orleans. David proclaims his innocence, and Judith must make some difficult decisions. Drenched in Cajun lure, Journeys End travels through the winding moss-covered bayous and New Orleans at Mardi Gras, following a killer who pursues his victims via the silent waters of Bayou Tech.
Book Synopsis The Cooking Gene by : Michael W. Twitty
Download or read book The Cooking Gene written by Michael W. Twitty and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2018-07-31 with total page 505 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2018 James Beard Foundation Book of the Year | 2018 James Beard Foundation Book Award Winner inWriting | Nominee for the 2018 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award in Nonfiction | #75 on The Root100 2018 A renowned culinary historian offers a fresh perspective on our most divisive cultural issue, race, in this illuminating memoir of Southern cuisine and food culture that traces his ancestry—both black and white—through food, from Africa to America and slavery to freedom. Southern food is integral to the American culinary tradition, yet the question of who "owns" it is one of the most provocative touch points in our ongoing struggles over race. In this unique memoir, culinary historian Michael W. Twitty takes readers to the white-hot center of this fight, tracing the roots of his own family and the charged politics surrounding the origins of soul food, barbecue, and all Southern cuisine. From the tobacco and rice farms of colonial times to plantation kitchens and backbreaking cotton fields, Twitty tells his family story through the foods that enabled his ancestors’ survival across three centuries. He sifts through stories, recipes, genetic tests, and historical documents, and travels from Civil War battlefields in Virginia to synagogues in Alabama to Black-owned organic farms in Georgia. As he takes us through his ancestral culinary history, Twitty suggests that healing may come from embracing the discomfort of the Southern past. Along the way, he reveals a truth that is more than skin deep—the power that food has to bring the kin of the enslaved and their former slaveholders to the table, where they can discover the real America together. Illustrations by Stephen Crotts
Book Synopsis Becoming Cajun, Becoming American by : Maria Hebert-Leiter
Download or read book Becoming Cajun, Becoming American written by Maria Hebert-Leiter and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2009-06-15 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From antebellum times, Louisiana's unique multipartite society included a legal and social space for intermediary racial groups such as Acadians, Creoles, and Creoles of Color. In Becoming Cajun, Becoming American, Maria Hebert-Leiter explores how American writers have portrayed Acadian culture over the past 150 years. Combining a study of Acadian literary history with an examination of Acadian ethnic history in light of recent social theories, she offers insight into the Americanization process experienced by Acadians -- who over time came to be known as Cajuns -- during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Hebert-Leiter examines the entire history of the Acadian, or Cajun, in American literature, beginning with Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem Evangeline and the writings of George Washington Cable, including his novel Bonaventure. The cultural complexity of Acadian and Creole identities led many writers to rely on stereotypes in Acadian characters, but as Hebert-Leiter shows, the ambiguity of Louisiana's class and racial divisions also allowed writers to address complex and controversial -- and sometimes taboo -- subjects. She emphasizes the fiction of Kate Chopin, whose short stories contain Acadian characters accepted as white Americans during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Representations of the Acadian in literature reflect the Acadians' path towards assimilation, as they celebrated their differences while still adopting an all-American notion of self. In twentieth-century writing, Acadian figures came to be more often called Cajun, and increasingly outsiders perceived them not simply as exotic or mythic beings but as complex persons who fit into traditional American society while reflecting its cultural diversity. Hebert-Leiter explores this transition in Ernest Gaines's novel A Gathering of Old Men and James Lee Burke's detective novels featuring Dave Robicheaux. She also discusses the works of Ada Jack Carver, Elma Godchaux, Shirley Ann Grau, and other writers. From Longfellow through Tim Gautreaux, Acadian and Cajun literature captures the stages of this fascinating cultural dynamism, making it a pivotal part of any history of American ethnicity and of Cajun culture in particular. Concise and accessible, Becoming Cajun, Becoming American provides an excellent introduction to American Acadian and Cajun literature.
Book Synopsis Diary of Marie Landry, Acadian Exile, The by : Stacy Demoran Allbritton
Download or read book Diary of Marie Landry, Acadian Exile, The written by Stacy Demoran Allbritton and published by Pelican Publishing Company, Inc.. This book was released on 2012-01-31 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the Great Upheaval of 1755, the British forced the Acadians to leave their homes in the Canadian provinces and later the American colonies. Fourteen-year-old Marie Landry joins her family and friends on a mass exodus from Maryland to Louisiana 10 years later, where land awaits them. Along the way, she notes her feelings of despair and hope through candid diary entries.
Book Synopsis Louisiana Cajun Girl by : Donna Hankins
Download or read book Louisiana Cajun Girl written by Donna Hankins and published by Balboa Press. This book was released on 2016-03-23 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The wet lands of Louisiana hold many secrets. In this spiritual, paranormal, romance, a young Cajun girl, Marcie, a tomboy raised by her parents on the edge of the swamps, is about to learn some lessons of life from the other side. Several months after the unexpected death of her dad, Marcie starts having ghostly visitations directing her to the middle of the Spring Bayou area among the snakes and alligators to find direction in her life from none other than a recluse that the people of the town call the Swamp Man. Through many trials and tribulation in the bayous and rivers with her childhood friends, this adventure brings Marcie face-to-face with death. Watch Marcie’s struggle with her mind, will, and emotions while she learns lessons from the heart from the Swamp Man and watch her grow and learn the true meaning of life – love.
