Cooking With Cajun Women: Recipes and Remembrances From South Louisiana Kitchens

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Summary: From Louisiana to Alaska
Review: Coming from South Louisiana (Cajun Country) I had high hopes from the title of this cookbook. However, after reading some of the recipes, I am astonished at astounding quantity of canned creamed soups called for in so many of them. Real Cajun cooks must be laughing themselves silly. Cajun cooking does not begin with CANNED SOUP! Get yourself a real Cajun cookbook. This is not it! Read it for the "remembrances," but certainly not the recipes. Apparently the Fontenot clan hasn't a clue about Cajun cooking.

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Summary: Canned Soup and More Soup`
Review: Coming from South Louisiana (Cajun Country) I had high hopes from the title of this cookbook. However, after reading some of the recipes, I am astonished at astounding quantity of canned creamed soups called for in so many of them. Real Cajun cooks must be laughing themselves silly. Cajun cooking does not begin with CANNED SOUP! Get yourself a real Cajun cookbook. This is not it! Read it for the "remembrances," but certainly not the recipes. Apparently the Fontenot clan hasn't a clue about Cajun cooking.

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Summary: From Louisiana to Alaska
Review: Cooking with Cajun Women exemplifies the current cultural traditions as they are today, using the recipes of older Cajun women all over South Louisiana not from one family unit. The book is a reflection of reality that includes recipes of times past with those of the present, because people today blend modernity with cultural traditions. Cajun culture has thrived because of its adaptability not in spite of it. The older ladies submitted these recipes and they represent what they are cooking today. People are more practical today and not everything is slow cooked, thus to deny it and act as if everything is made the old-fashioned way is dishonest. The book is a perfect blend of history and reality. The people of South Louisiana love the treasure filled book and to those who have left the area and lost touch with the people of Louisiana, you have spoken out of turn and out of context. You missed the message entirely.

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Summary: Best Cajun Recipe Book Ever!!!
Review: I am from southwest Louisiana and this is one of the best Cajun cookbooks I have ever bought! Most of the recipes are what my family has always prepared and still serve now. I recommend this book to everyone in Cajun country and to all of you that want to cook Cajun. A great gift for anyone that loves to cook. Ms. Fontenot has done an excellent job!

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Summary: Best Cajun Recipe Book Ever!!!
Review: I am from southwest Louisiana and this is one of the best Cajun cookbooks I have ever bought! Most of the recipes are what my family has always prepared and still serve now. I recommend this book to everyone in Cajun country and to all of you that want to cook Cajun. A great gift for anyone that loves to cook. Ms. Fontenot has done an excellent job!

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Summary: A simply terrific blend of cookbook
Review: Nicole Denee Fontenot spent two years interviewing Cajun women who grew up in the first half of the 20th century, and presents her research in Cooking With Cajun Women, a simply terrific blend of cookbook and anecdotes of older times when all food was homemade. Memories appear as highlighted sidebars to accompany dishes such as Fig Jam and Berry and Seafood Gumbo Cajun-Style.