Cajun

Cajun Kitchen Creole comes to the West Coast! Southern comfort food couldn't have come at a better time. San Diego is riddled with bar food, Italian, and Gastropub-esqe joints. But sometimes you just need to get straight up sloppy with a Po-boy bathed…

For the last several years, my family has been coming to my house for Thanksgiving dinner. For a long time, my parents would host, but something changed a couple of years ago, and now everyone prefers my meal over anything else. What changed? I started frying my turkeys, that’s what. For many households, the idea of frying a turkey for the holiday seems a bit tacky, but I assure you that it’s the best way to go. Turkey is usually so dry and bland if you cook it in the oven, but not so with…

(eastern and central Europe) Jewish heritage than in those with other backgrounds. The mutations responsible for this disease are also seen more in certain French-Canadian communities of Quebec, the Old Order Amish community in Pennsylvania, and the Cajun population of Louisiana. Mutations in the HEXA gene make the Tay-Sachs disease. The HEXA gene makes instructions for making pieces of an enzyme called beta-hexosaminidase A, which plays a critical role in the brain and spinal cord. This enzyme…

The ATC (Air Traffic Control) systems set in place in America are of course different from that of Canada and European countries but is it better is the question? Dougal’s Parker answers this question in his testimony he gave in front of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. He also goes into how the FAA can be transformed along with the ATC systems. Douglas Parker explains how given looking into all of the other foreign ATC systems in place and he came to the conclusion…

business imperatives behind it, create an irresistible drive toward more standard speech? If so, which accents or varieties of American speech will that leave out? Whom will it disenfranchise because of their dialect- African Americans, Hispanics, Cajuns in Louisiana?” (MacNeil 315). MacNeil chooses these questions to talk about the influence technology has in our society. These rhetorical questions were written after he talked about our computers continuously evolving, and if one day they would…

Culture, Premiere Issue (May/Jun 2012) Serves 6 Ingredients: 1/2 stick butter ?1 medium onion, chopped ?1/2 green bell pepper, chopped ?2 stalks celery, chopped ?3 cups corn kernels (fresh or frozen) ?2 cloves garlic, minced ?salt, pepper, and Cajun or Creole seasoning to taste 1 (10-ounce) can chopped tomatoes with green chiles (such as Ro-tel) 1/2 cup chicken broth 1½ cups heavy cream or half and half 3 cups Louisiana crawfish tails (about 1 pound, peeled) 2 tablespoons chopped parsley 1/4…

Being an African American 15 year old girl has affected the aspects of my Cultural Identity. It has shaped myself as a person and my personality. My cultural identity brings out the fact that i enjoy doing many things including things that i may not like to do. FIrst, what does it mean to be a black girl? Most people describe black people as ghetto. But as for me, i describe African American people as normal. It is really embarrassing to me when I see African Americans being ghetto. Also, when…

New Orleans is a melting pot of culture or as the people from New Orleans probably refer to it: a gumbo. Many of their cultural influences come from their deep-rooted history. New Orleans, founded by Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville, became a cultural gumbo from the fact that the Louisiana Territory swapped hands many times before it came to rest in the hands of the Americans. The French sent most of their undesirables like prostitutes, thieves, and an assortment of other criminals to inhabit…

have emerged from the union of my parents, I see something that is varied. My mother’s families are of mixed backgrounds and it is obvious in her bag of tricks when it comes what I was fed as a child. My Great Grandmothers on my mother’s side were Cajun and Irish, so I ate gumbo and corned beef and cabbage. My father’s…

Calixta is a Cajun with mixed Spanish blood who does not have much money behind her name. However, she has a lot of ambition and a strong will to back it up. Like when Fronie and Calixta quarreled in front of the church about a lover, and Fronnie brought up the time…