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Acadian Foodways

Historical period

The food of Acadie in the Maritimes before 1755: wheat and rye, cabbage and turnips, salt pork, cod and shellfish, dairy, and the diked salt-marsh farmland that supported it. The ancestor of Cajun foodways, and not the same thing as it.

Atlas โ€” where and when

Where in the world

Communities and languages

  • Acadian community documented

What is recorded

  • Acadian and Cajun are not interchangeable terms. Acadian foodways is the pre-1755 Maritime tradition; Cajun foodways is what it became in south Louisiana over the following century, in a different climate and among Indigenous, African, Spanish, French and German neighbours. The Acadian diaspora in the Maritimes is a separate system from the Cajun diaspora. documented

Related foodways

This foodway relates to

Recorded as relating to this foodway

  • originates from Cajun Foodways documented

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

  • related to Acadian Foodways and the Deportation documented

Recipes

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