Chef Paul Prudhomme's Louisiana Kitchen
by Paul Prudhomme
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Here for the first time, the famous food of Louisiana is presented in a cookbook written by a great creative chef who is himself world-famous. The extraordinary Cajun and Creole cooking of South Louisiana has roots going back over two hundred years, and today it is the one really vital, growing regional cuisine in America. No one is more responsible than Paul Prudhomme for preserving and expanding the Louisiana tradition, which he inherited from his own Cajun background. Chef Prudhomme's show more incredibly good food has brought people from all over America and the world to his restaurant, K-Paul's Louisiana Kitchen, in New Orleans. To set down his recipes for home cooks, however, he did not work in the restaurant. In a small test kitchen, equipped with a home-size stove and utensils normal for a home kitchen, he retested every recipe two and three times to get exactly the results he wanted. Logical though this is, it was an unprecedented way for a chef to write a cookbook. But Paul Prudhomme started cooking in his mother's kitchen when he was a youngster. To him, the difference between home and restaurant procedures is obvious and had to be taken into account. So here, in explicit detail, are recipes for the great traditional dishes--gumbos and jambalayas, Shrimp Creole, Turtle Soup, Cajun "Popcorn," Crawfish Etouffee, Pecan Pie, and dozens more--each refined by the skill and genius of Chef Prudhomme so that they are at once authentic and modern in their methods. Chef Paul Prudhomme's Louisiana Kitchen is also full of surprises, for he is unique in the way he has enlarged the repertoire of Cajun and Creole food, creating new dishes and variations within the old traditions. Seafood Stuffed Zucchini with Seafood Cream Sauce, Panted Chicken and Fettucini, Veal and Oyster Crepes, Artichoke Prudhomme--these and many others are newly conceived recipes, but they could have been created only by a Louisiana cook. The most famous of Paul Prudhomme's original recipes is Blackened Redfish, a daringly simple dish of fiery Cajun flavor that is often singled out by food writers as an example of the best of new American regional cooking. For Louisianians and for cooks everywhere in the country, this is the most exciting cookbook to be published in many years. show lessTags
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I have made over half of the recipes in this book in the 24 years since I got it. Our family favorites include the Creole meat pies and a dish called "Mamou Big Chicken"
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Paul Prudhomme was born on his family's farm near Opelousas, Louisiana on July 13, 1940. After graduating high school in 1957, he spent numerous years taking cooking jobs in restaurants and opening restaurants without much success. In 1975, he was hired as the executive chef at Commander's Palace and in 1979, Food and Wine magazine invited him to show more Tavern on the Green in New York to give a cooking demonstration for the food press. He and his wife opened K-Paul's Louisiana Kitchen in New Orleans in 1979. His cookbooks include Chef Paul Prudhomme's Louisiana Cajun Magic Cookbook, Chef Paul Prudhomme's Fiery Foods That I Love, Chef Paul Prudhomme's Louisiana Kitchen, and The Prudhomme Family Cookbook: Old-Time Louisiana Recipes. In 1983, he created a food company, Magic Seasoning Blends, to sell his dry spices, rubs, sauces and marinades. He died after a brief illness on October 8, 2015 at the age of 75. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- 1984
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- Food & Cooking, Nonfiction, General Nonfiction
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- 641.59763 — Applied Science & Technology Home economics & family management Food, Cooking & Recipes / Meals, Picnics Cooking; cookbooks Ethnic Cookbooks North America South Central U.S. Louisiana
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- TX715 .P948 — Technology Home economics Home economics Cooking
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