Research Catalog

Title

In a Cajun kitchen : authentic Cajun recipes and stories from a family farm on the bayou / Terri Pischoff Wuerthner.

Author

Wuerthner, Terri P.

Publication

New York : St. Martin's Press, 2006.

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Details

Description

xxiii, 280 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), ports.; 25 cm.

Summary

When most people think of Cajun cooking, they think of blackened redfish or, maybe, gumbo. When Terri Pischoff Wuerthner thinks of Cajun cooking, she thinks about Great-Grandfather Theodore's picnics on Lake Carenton, children gathering crawfish fresh from the bayou for supper, and Grandma Olympe's fricassee of beef, because Terri Pischoff Wuerthner is descended from an old Cajun family. Through a seamless blend of storytelling and recipes to live by, Wuerthner's In a Cajun Kitchen will remind people of the true flavors of Cajun cooking. When her ancestors settled in Louisiana around 1760, her family grew into a memorable clan that understood the pleasures of the table and the bounty of the Louisiana forests, fields, and waters. Wuerthner spices her gumbo with memories of Cajun community dances, wild-duck hunts, and parties at the family farm. From the Civil War to today, Wuerthner brings her California-born Cajun family together to cook and share jambalaya, crawfish etoufee, shrimp boil, and more, while they cook, laugh, eat, and carry on the legacy of Louis Noel Labauve, one of the first French settlers in Acadia in the 1600s. Along with the memories, In a Cajun Kitchen presents readers with a treasure trove of authentic Cajun recipes: roasted pork mufaletta sandwiches, creamy crab casserole, breakfast cornbread with sausage and apples, gumbo, shrimp fritters, black-eyed pea and andouille bake, coconut pralines, pecan pie, and much more. In a Cajun Kitchen is a great work of culinary history, destined to be an American cookbook classic that home cooks will cherish. -- Book jacket.

Subjects

• Livres de cuisine
• Cookbooks
• cookbooks
• Cookbook
• Cooking, Cajun
• Cooking, American > Louisiana style

Genre/Form

• Cookbook
• cookbooks.
• Cookbooks
• Livres de cuisine.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 269) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Genealogy of the Labauve Family from 1815 xiv -- Meet the Labauve Family xvii -- Cajun Cookery: A Love Affair with Food 1 -- Gumbo and Soup: Great-Grandma Marie Clara: Life on a Cajun Farm and the Beginning of Home Place 23 -- Poultry: The Great-Great Uncles: Murder, Music, and Mallards 55 -- Meat: Grandma Olympe and Her Magic Bag 81 -- Seafood: Grandpa Pischoff Sneaks into the Kitchen 109 -- Sweet and Savory Bakery: The Great-Aunts: The Vanilla Lady and the Lonely Trousseau 135 -- Vegetables and Beans: Great-Uncle Adolphe: The Country Store on the Farm 161 -- Salads, Salad Dressings, and Sauces: Dad and the House Under the Redwoods: Cajun in California 187 -- Dressings, Potatoes, and Grits: At Aunt Lorna's Table 217 -- Desserts: Our Cajun Kitchen Today 241.

ISBN

• 0312343051
• 9780312343057

LCCN

^^2006043410

OCLC

64625043

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library