The Crawfish Book by Glen Pitre

By Glen Pitre

American Indians worshiped them as creators of the area, Napoleon ate them to rejoice his victories, Swedes have them shipped in from midway around the globe, and for Louisiana's Cajuns the common-or-garden crawfish is the center piece of delicacies, a logo of ethnic delight, a staple commodity for thriving enterprise ventures, and an inextricable a part of folklore.

Research and interviews spice this pleasant publication that information the connection among crawfish and humans-from antiquity to the recent York markets of the Eighties; from Depression-era pauper's dinner party to connoisseur entree of the Nineteen Eighties Cajun cooking craze; from spring afternoon hobby to fashionable aquaculture agribusiness.

To get the reader's mouth watering, greater than dozen recipes from those that understand crawfish best-both recognized cooks and crawfishers-are interspersed all through. Sections supply recommendation on catching, purchasing, dealing with, cooking, and, when you desire to simplify their encounters with crawfish, ordering tasty dishes in eating places. integrated also are a bibliographical essay, an index to recipes, and a listing of resources for spices, paraphernalia, and airfreight shipments of crawfish.

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