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The Holy Trinity Foodways

Specialised

Onion, bell pepper and celery, usually with garlic, sweated as the base of nearly everything. Related to French mirepoix and not identical to it: bell pepper replaces carrot, the proportions differ, and the cooking is longer and darker. The name itself is twentieth-century Louisianan.

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What is recorded

  • The Louisiana trinity is related to French mirepoix by descent and is not identical to it: bell pepper replaces carrot, proportions differ, and the cooking is longer and darker. The name "holy trinity" is a twentieth-century Louisiana coinage, popularised in the Cajun cooking boom. documented

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This foodway relates to

  • related to French documented

    Related to mirepoix by descent; bell pepper for carrot, and a longer darker cooking.

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