Chef John Folse's Cajun Louisiana | 1994
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- In this program from August 20, 1994, Chef John Folse explores the history, culture, and cuisine of the Cajuns in Louisiana. This program includes: a visit to the Evangeline statue and St. Martin de Tours Catholic Church in St. Martinville; an interview with folklorist Barry Ancelet on the history of the Cajun people; a look at the traditions of the Courir de Mardi Gras, or Cajun Mardi Gras; a visit to the frog murals in Rayne; an interview with Cajun storyteller Dave Petitjean at McGee’s Landing in Henderson; an Atchafalaya swamp tour with tour guide Harold Robin; Chef Folse eating a dish of alligator etouffee at McGee’s Atchafalaya Café; a look at crawfishing and crawfish boils; interviews with Earlene Broussard, the director of CODOFIL, and Amanda LaFleur, a French teacher, on CODOFIL’s work in preserving the French language in Louisiana; interviews with Cajun artists Floyd Sonnier, Robert Dafford, and Francis Pavy; an interview with Si Brown, the president of Bruce Foods, on Cajun entrepreneurs; a look at the common ingredients used in Cajun cuisine at Mulate’s Restaurant in Lafayette; an interview with Lennis Romero on the tradition of the “fais do do,” or Cajun dance party; an interview with fiddler Michael Doucet on Cajun music; a visit to Festivals Acadiens in Lafayette; an interview with Gladys Clark on the traditional Cajun textile arts; a visit to Vermilionville in Lafayette, a living history museum with a traditional Cajun village; an interview with Bill Fontenot, the Curator of Natural Sciences at the Lafayette Natural History Museum, on common Cajun medicinal herbs and plants; a visit to La Travaille, the Duson Family cabin; and a visit to the Boudin King Restaurant in Jennings.
I feel alot of kinship with these folk. What a wonderful culture they have especially as southern cousins. Hello from Appalachia.
bonjour from the Bayou Lafourche
beautiful culture and history, greetings from Nuevo Laredo, México. Long live Cajun along the Bayou. 🎉🎉🎉 although many don't know but many places in the world have similarities not just differences .
Thanks for watching!
Thank you chef Folse for the history of my people! Merci boux coup!
Beaucoup 👍
My grade school days were in Lafayette and Broussard. I was born in New Orleans.
I feel that I was raised in the most special area in this whole country. It feels European. It’s got the best food ‘all around’ in the United States. I spent my Jr. High and High School years back in New Orleans. When my Grandparents retired they built a house on Bayou Liberty in Slidell.
There is just no place like it
I miss it.
What a beautiful culture and a very well researched documentary!
Thank you so much!
I remember watching this back in the day
Hiiii from nova Scotia!!!!
My southern cousins ❤️
Very well done, very informative,,,,
Well done Chef!no pun.
Suddenly I have a craving for turtle soup!
I took a class taught by Dr Ancelet at ULL. Good teacher
as for me ....i love you Cajuns...u are beautiful... thank s for your culture...
It is possible that two of my ancestors were of those 22 funerals. They were Alexandre Broussard and his wife, brother of Joseph dit Beausoleil Broussard. They died within a month of finally ending their long journey in the Attakapas territory.
Interesting ! ThaCajuns were originally from one region from France , similar to italian Americans hailed from mainly one region in italy, Naples
The “Cajuns” are mixture of French peoples from all over France because “Cajuns” are a mixture of french descended groups from colonial Louisiana, French Canada (colonial L’ Acadie and Québec), French colonial Mobile and the French Caribbean.
Yep Bordeaux france
The Acadians here in Nova Scotia are Mi'kmaq and french. Aug 15 we celebrate 🎉🥂
There is another person who is a Cajun Cook and Storyteller named Justin Wilson, if you listen to 1 of his stories you will love to laugh because his stories are really funny.
Oh, he's great. I've watched him for years.
Aug 15 is Acadian day, do you guys celebrate aswell ?
Louisiana was a French colony for many years before the Acadians stsrted arriving in Louisiana in 1760. St. Landry parish, along Bayou Teche, I have a mawmaw Cormier that is pure cajun on mother and fathers side. The rest call themselves french. They came straight from France. How does 3800 Cajuns outbreak the French colony that was already here for many years. I trace my family arriving in 1720 from France. I like many others called myself Cajun because we were told that's what we were when in fact I'm mostly Louisiana French Colonial with a little bit of Cajun. But knowing this, just like everybody born in Louisiana from French speakers and Gumbo eaters, I'm Cajun.
- Longfellow's poem has Evangeline finding Gabriel in Philadelphia.
- Saint Martin de Tours may be the Mother Church of Cajuns but may be a hard claim to make for the Acadians. The Acadians of course had their own churches in Acadia. None of the the early churches exist today. Port Royal (Habitation site) contained a chapel and that could claim to be the Mother Church location. Grand Pré is recognized as the spiritual heart of Acadie and the memorial church there could be considered the Mother Church.
-Most French settler to Acadia did not leave France because of social and economic turmoil. During the major migration period, France was at relative peace. Many of the settlers came from the lands of there Seigneurs such, as d'Aulnay. d'Aulnay was interested in establishing a successful commercial adventure. It was about making money. Prior to the 1660s the colony was a business adventure. Afterward the colonials became crown colonies an not longer run was private ventures.
- The Acadian did not choose to be independently neutral. They fully understood they were British subjects and did not dispute the idea. France, Britain and the Acadians recognized the Acadians were subjects of Britain. The Acadia wished for, and obtained a neutrality in matters of conflict and war, until 1755 when that neutrality failed.
-The British were not "reestablishing control of the colony. The British had been in control since 1710. They were taking steps to maintain control in the colony after being under increasing pressure and the eruption of war in the region.
- it was about five years before the old Acadian lands were starting to be resettled.
We went to Maine and a small number went down to Louisiana and the Spanish gave land.
thank goodness for the 1968 legislation!!
LOL.... "FOUND" a home!!!!!
Why was this put in “related” when searching for little Dominiques nosebleed?
Gumbo and jambalaya are Creole.
I'm a Cajun that isn't catholic.
French catholic
Gumbo is an African word and so is the food.
The food is not exclusively African
The poem by Longfellow is not accurate
He touched the food too much he ended up scratching for spots on Biloxi news cooking something someone else’s recipes
Maybe Cajuns didn't eat crawfish but the enslaved Africans and their descendants in rural Louisiana ate them out of the ditches near their dwellings
Senegalese People/wolof people and also The indigenous people of the land
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It was more than Senegalese Wolof people
PBS is propaganda