Alex Patout's Louisiana Restaurant: Recipes

"... this is real down-home cookin' elevated to sophisticated heights."
~ Gambit / New Orleans

221 Royal Street ~ New Orleans, Louisiana ~ 70115
Phone: (504) 525-7788 Fax: (504) 525-7809

"Many are astonished at the fact that there are two distinctly different types of cuisine that coexist within the same area... and just as amazed at the enormous variations within each. A third kind of cooking has grown up in Louisiana over the past few years - a development I feel honored to have been a part of. It's a cuisine that selects and marries the best that Louisinana has to offer, and it's known, appropriately enough, as Louisiana cooking. No state matches Louisiana in its abundance of fresh seafood, and the game in the marshes of the south are a hunter's paradise. Add to that the amazing variety of produce we grow, and three hundred years' mingling of French, Spanish, African and Indian influences, and you'll understand what Cajuns know so well: Culinary innovation is simply an extension of the concepts of family and tradition. And the process never ends, because every day gives a new answer to the question "Isn't there a new, a different, a better way I can cook?"

Exerpt and recipes taken from "Patout's Cajun Home Cooking" by Chef Alex Patout.