Cajun Men Cook

The culinary flair of Cajun men is legendary. Full of novel food combinations and lore, this cookbook is just like gumbo--spicy, rich, and memorable. Winner of a 1995 Tabasco Community Cookbook Award. Benefits the Beaver Club of Lafayette.

Travel through southern Louisiana and you'll quickly learn that Cajun cooking is more than a heavy dose of black pepper or a splash of tangy hot sauce. With more than 100 authentic Cajun recipes from Louisiana's Acadian parishes, now home cooks can create lip-smacking recipes such as Andouille-Stuffed Pork Loin, Butter Beans with Sausage, Grand Chenier Crawfish Jambalaya, Sweet Potato en Brochette, and Tried-and-True Pecan Pie. You will also learn a little about the history, people, and culture from which the Cajun cuisine originated. Breaux shows how a true Cajun cookstraditional meals as well as the modern methods of preparing delicious home-cooked meals.

Cajun food has become a popular “ethnic” food throughout America during the last decade. This fascinating book explores the significance of Cajun cookery on its home turf in south Louisiana, a region marked by startling juxtapositions of the new and the old, the nationally standard and the locally unique. Neither a cookbook nor a restaurant guide, Cajun Foodways gives interpretation to the meaning of traditional Cajun food from the perspective of folklife studies and cultural anthropology. The author takes into account the modern regional popular culture in examining traditional foodways of the Cajuns. Cajuns' attention to their own traditional foodways is more than merely nostalgia or a clever marketing ploy to lure tourists and sell local products. The symbolic power of Cajun food is deeply rooted in Cajuns' ethnic identity, especially their attachments to their natural environment and their love of being with people. Foodways are an effective symbol for what it means to be a Cajun today. The reader interested in food and in cooking will find much appeal in this book, for it illustrates a new way to think about how and why people eat as they do.

A learning tool for those just starting out in Cajun cooking. Extension Home Economists from the Arcadiana parishes contributed many of the recipes. Most of the recipes are from 4-H Club members in thier respective parishes who participated in various cooking contests during the past years.

The fitness influencer and creator of the #1 bestselling Food & Drink app, FitMenCook, shares 100 easy, quick meal prep recipes that will save you time, money, and inches on your waistline—helping you to get healthy on your own terms. We like to be inspired when it comes to food. No one enjoys cookie-cutter meal plans, bland recipes, or eating the same thing every day. Instead of worrying about what to eat and how it’s going to affect our bodies, we should embrace food freedom—freedom to create flavorful meals, but in a more calorie-conscious way; freedom to indulge occasionally while being mindful of portions; and freedom to achieve wellness goals without breaking the bank. In Fit Men Cook, Kevin Curry, fitness expert and social media sensation with millions of followers and hundreds of thousands of downloads on his app, shares everything you need to live a healthy life each day—from grocery lists to common dieting pitfalls to his ten commandments of meal prep—as well as his personal story of overcoming depression and weight gain to start a successful business and fitness movement. This guide also includes 100+ easy and flavorful recipes like Southern-Inspired Banana Corn Waffles, Sweet Potato Whip, Juicy AF Moroccan Chicken, and many more to help you plan your week and eat something new and nutritious each day. With Fit Men Cook, you can create exciting, satisfying meals and be on your way to losing weight for good. After all, bodies may be sculpted at the gym, but they are built in the kitchen.

This collection of recipes, stories and food trivia explores favorite dishes from celebrity chefs, sports heroes, local grill legends and more. From seasoned chefs to barbecue-happy bachelors and loving husbands, men are taking up the tongs and giving the salad spinner a whirl in increasing numbers. Kitchen Goddess Margie Lapanja interviewed hundreds of men—from movie stars to neighborhood gourmands—for this one-of-a-kind cookbook filled with favorite recipes, fascinating food trivia, and fun stories from the kitchen. Food Men Love features Tom Cruise's favorite Linguini dish, quarterback John Elway's Hamburger Soup, basketball legend Michael Jordan's 23 Peekytoe Crab Sandwich, and former Grateful Dead guitarist Bob Weir's Peanut Satay Sauce. Dishes are organized by course in chapters including “Warming Up His Appetite”; “Seeking Thrills with the G-r-r-rill”; and “How Sweet It Is: Treat Him to His Just Desserts.”

In this treasury of Cajun heritage, the author allows the people who are the very foundations of Cajun culture to tell their own stories. Nicole Denée Fontenot visited Cajun women in their homes and kitchens and gathered over 300 recipes as well as thousands of narrative accounts. Most of these women were raised on small farms and remember times when everything (except coffee, sugar and flour) was home-made. They shared traditional recipes made with modern and simple ingredients.

Everybody wants to cook like a Cajun, and there's plenty of good reasons why this is true... For one, Cajun cuisine is some of the most flavorful and unique food you'll find anywhere in the known universe. This little book contains our personal favorite Cajun dishes, the ones we grew up eating and learning to prepare by watching grandparents, aunts and uncles, cousins and our own parents, of course! Having been raised by people who lived the life, from day to day, a carefree and joy-filled way of life down here in Acadiana, it was a privileged existence of the richest culture and close-knit community, we shared what we had with friends and strangers alike! Come with me and enjoy these old time traditions of passing a good time just as the local Cajuns have done and continue to do in their homes, outside kitchens and camps. Cooking has long been a staple of family life here. While ingredients and traditions may vary slightly from Parish to Parish, the core values of cooking with what you have and with people you love still lives on today! Most Cajun dishes take hours to prepare and cook. For these reasons, family and friends have ample time to talk about the past and catch up on the future. As friends, we will prepare the ingredients and cook side by side. Once the dishes are complete we will eat together and enjoy the moment as we transition from friends to family. And give prayers of gratitude for such blessings!