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I live in Lafayette Louisiana. I grew up on gumbo, ettouffee, jambalaya, and boudin.
I fell in love with the Cajun culture, food and music when I was working out of Harvey as a diver in the commercial oil industry back in the '70s. Since I can't get stuff here, we make our own andouille, tasso and Boudin. Dirty rice, etouffee, jambalaya, red beans and rice and gumbo are in our meal rotation often. We also make Muffalettas and Po'Boys. If our local Restaurant Depot doesn't carry sacks of live crawfish in season, I'll order from a place in LA and have them shipped overnight. We came up with a fusion recipe between Cajun and Italian, which we call Cajuncini. It is a take on Italian arancini, but uses jambalaya or dirty rice instead of risotto.
I know no one who lives off "an American Fast Food Diet".
I think you might be surprised. Maybe not totally, but there are a lot of people out there that have no idea what quality meals are and eat a lot of junk stuff. Their idea of dining out is drive through or pop into a fast food restaurant or when they think a bit upscale they think Chili's maybe..
One of our best meals in Italy was a small 4-5 table space in someone's home. The city was Stresa, along a part of Lago Maggiore in northern Italy.
What he didn't add was that we ate at a 3 starred restaurant in a 5 star hotel in Venice on that same trip. While the food there was excellent, our dinner in Stresa is the one we still talk about. And I'm sure you can figure out the costs were at far opposite ends of the spectrum. That little place was recommended by a shopkeeper and was up the mountain where tourists didn't generally visit.
I have eaten several of them. There has really been one that I thought didn't really make the mark....Alinea in Chicago. It's more about theatre than food.
IMO, the best restaurant on earth is Per Se in NYC. It just blows me out of the water every time I go there.
Because as I get older, I can't consume as much and not gain weight, I would rather have quality over quantity. But I never leave those places hungry. In fact, I am stuffed.
I think you might be surprised. Maybe not totally, but there are a lot of people out there that have no idea what quality meals are and eat a lot of junk stuff. Their idea of dining out is drive through or pop into a fast food restaurant or when they think a bit upscale they think Chili's maybe..
I said I know of no one not that they are not out there.
I’ve been invited to over 12 “ vip chef presentations”
Before a restaurant officially opens ...
I like learning and trying new foods and enjoyed
All the foods
Will I pay the prices on the menu?? I did once but that was it
I’m a steak and lobster guy ..
but I also love meatloaf and chicken thighs
I can’t justify the prices compared to what I can make the exception being fried clams
I fell in love with the Cajun culture, food and music when I was working out of Harvey as a diver in the commercial oil industry back in the '70s. Since I can't get stuff here, we make our own andouille, tasso and Boudin. Dirty rice, etouffee, jambalaya, red beans and rice and gumbo are in our meal rotation often. We also make Muffalettas and Po'Boys. If our local Restaurant Depot doesn't carry sacks of live crawfish in season, I'll order from a place in LA and have them shipped overnight. We came up with a fusion recipe between Cajun and Italian, which we call Cajuncini. It is a take on Italian arancini, but uses jambalaya or dirty rice instead of risotto.
From 1994-1996 I was stationed in Gaeta Italy. One of the guys from the ship somehow managed to import boudin and live crawfish and held a crawfish boil for some people from the ship and his local Italian friends. The Italians loved boudin and boiled crawfish.
The kind of food usually only very well off people eat at like 3 star Michelin restaurants etc. Where you pay hundreds for just a little bit on your plate, is it really worth it or do most just eat it as a status symbol? You really never seem to have much on a plate and spending loads of money for it. And for a person used to an American fast-food diet how would eating such taste?
I guess it might be fun to try something different, but I’m not very adventurous when it comes to unfamiliar animals or vegetables. Especially if it’s super expensive.
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