Cajun Foodways

Where in the world

• Louisiana territory

Communities and languages

• Cajun community documented

Languages: Louisiana French

Related foodways

This foodway relates to

• originates from Acadian Foodways documented

  ⚠ DIRECTION CORRECTED. Acadie is Maritime Canada before 1755; Cajun Louisiana is what the deportation produced. The ancestor is not a variant of its descendant.

• part of Louisiana Foodways documented
• related to Louisiana Creole Foodways documented

  Two foodways, adjacent for two and a half centuries, with heavy exchange of ingredients, dishes and cooks — and still two. Neither is a variant of the other.

Recorded as relating to this foodway

• influenced Acadian Foodways documented

  Acadian is the ancestor, Cajun the Louisiana development. The terms are not interchangeable.

• influenced Acadian Settlement Foodways in Louisiana documented
• influenced Grand Dérangement Foodways documented
• influenced Indigenous Louisiana Foodways documented

  Filé from sassafras, maize, and the fish and game knowledge of a landscape the Acadians arrived in. Recorded as its own foodways, with an influence edge — not as an ingredient list inside someone else’s cuisine.

• migrated to Acadian Foodways and the Deportation documented

  The Grand Dérangement of 1755 deported around 10,000 Acadians; those who reached Louisiana became the Cajuns.

• originates from Cajun Foodways in Texas documented
• part of Cajun Revival Foodways documented
• related to Cajun and Louisiana Creole: A Comparison documented
• related to Louisiana Mardi Gras Foodways documented

Regional cuisines

Recipes

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