Chef Melissa Martin got a great response to her first cookbook, “Mosquito Supper Club: Cajun Recipes from a Disappearing Bayou,” which references her restaurant but focuses on the Cajun foodways of ...

In the broader food world, fusion cuisine is a major, somewhat recent force in the American culinary landscape. In Cajun country, the idea of combining two cultures' techniques and ingredients to ...

Anthony Bourdain, the late, great food and travel writer and celebrity chef host of the CNN series “Parts Unknown,” may have done more than anyone else to awaken America to the savory delights and ...

First, take a large mixing bowl and put all of the meatball ingredients into it. Then work everything together with your hands (trying to do this with a spoon just won't give you the blended ...

The Cajun Bayou – just 35 miles south of New Orleans – isn’t just a place, it’s a culture. Here you’ll find a 100-mile stretch of backcountry beauty peppered with small towns and populated by folks of ...

When I met Alzina Toups in 2006, she was 77. She was making culinary magic in a Galliano welding shed her son gave her, cooking the Cajun dishes of her parents for one group a night. Most dishes ...

“Here along the Bayou, Cajuns use what’s around them, pulling from the water and plucking from the land to find the freshest ingredients and then they tend to mix it all together in one big pot,” says ...

“Here along the Bayou, Cajuns use what’s around them, pulling from the water and plucking from the land to find the freshest ingredients and then they tend to mix it all together in one big pot,” says ...