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Creole or Cajun? Here's How to Tell

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Creole or Cajun? Here's How to Tell - by Alex Woodward for CNN/ Travel/ cnn.com

"Stand long enough in one spot in New Orleans and someone will ask where they can find Cajun food.

But they're looking in the wrong place.

And what they probably mean is, "Where can I get some fried alligator?"

Wrong again.

At restaurants advertising shellacked entrees on the sidewalk with laminated menus featuring pictures of the food, "Cajun" encompasses the New Orleans dining experience: lots of cayenne pepper, fried seafood and heavy on the sauces.

One more time: wrong.

The interchangeability of "Creole" and "Cajun" (news media, we're guilty too) not only obscures those unique cultures, it contorts the history of the city into a stereotyped cartoon with its residents riding alligators to work and guzzling Tabasco by the bottle.

New Orleans is a Creole city.

In its 300 years on earth, the city has transformed from French and Spanish to Caribbean and African and all those things all at once..."

Richard
 
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