A very good point given this thread. I've only been down to Louisiana once, but I fell in love with New Orleans. There are a couple of good Cajun restaurants here in NYC (another gret part of living here!) that I visit every now and then. Our American "culture" is just something the French, and their Francophile friends in America, will never understand. They can never get past the thought of McDonald's to see how special we really are.
Cajun culture- Unique AND American as can be at the same time.
Heh--REAL Cajun food is not to be found very easily in New Orleans. Brought yourself to Ville Platte, Lafayette, or just about any small town north and west of New Orleans to find the GOOD STUFF. Not that New Orleans food isn't pretty good--just that it is more Creole than Cajun.