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"Giusi" > wrote:

> "Dan Abel" n article
> > "Giusi" wrote:
> >
> >> "Dave Smith" ha scritto nel messaggio
> >> > Giusi wrote:
> >> I am making tortiere >> from Graham's recipe for it.
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > Emeril Lagasse's recipe for tortier is excellent.
> >>
> >> I'm sure it's great, but I am from the frozen north so I think of the
> >> recipes of Arcadians rather than Cajuns for New Year's. Graham lives in
> >> Canada, so it looks like what I remember.
> >
> > You don't mind if I laugh, do you?
> >
> > Emeril was born and raised in 1959 in Fall River, Massachusetts, of a
> > French-Canadian father and Portugese mother. He went to culinary school
> > in the NE and worked in restaurants there until he went to New Orleans
> > in 1982.
> >
> > http://www.biography.com/search/article.do?id=9542380
> >
> > The Cajuns (French for "Acadians") migrated to the US from French Canada.
>
> > You're pulling our legs, aren't you?
> >
> > --
> > Dan Abel
>
> As half Arcadian I know all that, but believe me, the cuisine is very
> different. Emeril weas born in Mass but has established and led his kitchen
> life as an adopted Cajun chef. So pardon me if I point out to you there is
> very likely no resemblance between what I ate for New Year as a kid and what
> Emeril makes.
>
> Why do people here pull out Wikipedia all the time as if they can't say what
> they mean on their own? You wish to teach this pig to sing, so do it
> yourself. Fortunately, I already know the hallelujah chorus on being French
> Arcadian. Which should be clear from the disctinction I made when I said I
> wanted to make Arcadian tortiere rather than Cajun tortiere. Little girls
> from Maine are read Longfellow in their cradles.

I'm sure the Italians will enjoy it, wherever it's from!

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Dan Abel
Petaluma, California USA