Posted on 10/08/2015 9:14:04 AM PDT by ClearBlueSky
I remember that well..I went there in the early 80s..he’d just opened..the word of mouth was amazing..lines around the block..he hired NOLA PD for crowd control..and much of the kitchen back then was outdoors..open air..the line went past it...because all the tables seated 4..if you were a pair..you got to eat with total strangers...Our great good luck...we sat with Vincent Price and his wife...it was a truly memorable evening..he enjoyed telling old Hollywood stories as much as we did listening to them..it was also the first time I ever had a “cajun” martini..they served them in Mason jars, with jalapenos stuck on tootpicks for garnish...it made my earlobes flap...
LoL! Yep, that's what my dad would always repeat.
I remember watching him and Graham Kerr (81) before there were cable & satellite. ...both were a hoot.
That man could cook! For some reason, thought he had already passed. RIP Chef Paul, your inspiration carries on.
Blackened Catfish for tomorrow evening in your honor, Sir
wow, that is a great story! awesome food and dinner w/Vincent Price!
Glad you enjoyed it..hadn’t thought of it in years...funny the things you forget as you get older...another thing..back then he was slimmer, more agile..he worked the room..came to visit our table because of Vincent Price..Prudhomme had just made “blackened redfish” the one thing to eat..
I used to have one of his cookbooks. The man had a love affair with butter and heavy cream.
Prudhome was not himself a Cajun and his specialty was Creole cuisine, not Cajun.
Justyn LOL
Ah chose dis wiiiine ta go wit dis gumbo cuz ah opened da refrigeratah an saw dat it was open.
This was when cooking shows were good. I can't stand the stuffed shirts on the Food Network.
“And if Cajuns were displaced Acadians?”
That they are. Around the time of the French and Indian War the Brits booted the Acadians out of Canada and a bunch of them settled in Louisiana. Cajun is just a contraction of the name Acadian. Drop the ‘A’ and run the rest together.
Creole indicated ‘native born’, its the name that French colonials gave to those born in Louisiana as opposed to those born in France.
‘Son, you got a panty on your head.”
Thanks. That’s what I thought.
In Montreal they still have a lot of things called l’Acadian or l’Acadie.
I just ate there in the rain last year
God speed big guy
The roux to Gumbo is like the land to Scarlett
It’s everything
Dark dark and dark right up to the burn
Not too much oil but not nubby
Cast iron for sho!
There is no substitute
But I lie
In a hurry or just for creole or RBAR or any creole gravy ....or just to add more to the real nut
Savoie’s works damn good....just spoon it out
I am the gumbo cook from Hell....my WWII VET uncle held the title....but he’s 90
That and Paella
Or French style fish brothy soups like Boulliabaise...
I just don’t have time anymore
Justin was from way up nort'.
He from Amite, up in Tangipahoa Parish, almost in Mississip.
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