Institute of Italian Culture:An interview with Francesca Valente
A Journey Through Aesthetic Realms – Episode 326,
Institute of Italian Culture:An interview with Francesca Valente,
Air date: August 6, 2007 (AJAR – 20070806)
Duration : 19 min 59 sec
Kidcast.tv – Kids' Culture Kitchen: England
Chef Brandon makes a traditional English dish – fish and chips!
Duration : 11 min 53 sec
Why is it that the only time you hear about white holidays/events are cases like KKK rallies?
I ask this because in my area, whites take pride in their heritage, being that most of them are of an anglo saxon or cajun heritage. Louisiana(especially Lafayette) is known for it’s cajun and creole heritage, and both groups embrace their cultures. Do whites in other cities have events for their ethnic origin(such as german, italian, irish)?
We have an Italian Pride festival where I live.
We also have cajun and creole events and festivals.
Cajun Country
The Cajun culture sprang from the traditions of the Acadians who settled in South Louisiana following their expulsion from Nova Scotia in 1755. This French colonial culture melded with mainland French traditions already in place in Louisiana and with Spanish, Native American, English and German influences. In time, the mix evolved into the distinctive and unique Cajun culture found today in South Louisiana.
Duration : 0:0:31
Kristi Guillory performing her original Cajun song Blues A Catin for MusicBox Project
Kristi Guillory performing her original Cajun song Blues A Catin for MusicBox Project. Krisit is an accomplished accordian and guitar player as well as knocking out some powerful vocals, writing great tunes and she shares our love of folklore. She’s a member of the Cajun band Bonsoir Catin, one of the women musicians being featured in MusicBox Project’s upcoming film documentary “AMERICANA WOMEN” Roots Musicians – Women’s Tales and Tunes.
Duration : 0:5:1
Why do people imitate Gumbo recipe?
Im from New Orleans La, and every time I go out of town or in a city. I see some sort of restaurant advertising cajun creole food. Most of the time I check out the restaurant because I miss home so much I decided to try my so call home food. Needless to say it is horrendous. I been to 15 so call creole cajun food restaurants and none of them even compare to actually new orleans natives food.
First New Orleans food is not cajun but creole french cooking.
I see A lot of people ask for a gumbo recipe, and it just aggravates me, when they try to short stop our style of cooking. I feel as though if you are not going to cook the recipe from scratch, then your are not getting a new orleans taste of CUISINE, you are getting someone else cusine, I mean the whole point of cooking it is because you were craving for it right? However I just want to let these people know who loves gumbo but want the recipe to try and get it from the natives and not some online fake recipe. If you need my recipe or a native site I can give it to you. I just want people to respect our culture and food. And average gumbo take a day or a half. if you can cook gumbo in two or 6 hours it is not the real thing. Furthermore; lets not try to imitate other peoples culture. do it by the way it suppose to be done.
these are the things in a gumbo(shrimps, crabs, chicken, onions, celery, red, yellow, green peppers, okra, gizzards, oysters, tomatos and parsly. If you do not have all these things in your gumbo especially the seafood then you are not eating new orleans cusine rather than some other types of cusine but don’t put new orleans name to a cusine when it is not the orginal recipe
because they wanna make money just like everybody else in this troubled economy you gotta do what you gotta do
