Heading to Louisiana for the first time, the Cajun Bayou my destination, I was imagining overflowing seafood platters, late nights listening to live music, lots of swampy nature, maybe some reptile sightings.
Others returned to France, where the Acadians originated. Then in 1785, hundreds sailed west across the ocean, this time to Louisiana to reunite with family and friends who had arrived earlier. “We had Acadian generations settling all the way down to the coast, carrying their culture with them in the wilderness,” said John Doucet, a professor at the Center for Bayou Studies at Nicholls State University. “So that lays the groundwork for an incredibly pervasive culture.”
I did eat shrimp I don’t know how many ways: fried, grilled, in pasta and po’boys; with sides of grits, slaw and French fries. I learned the delights of gumbo, in the bowl and in local lore. “I can tell who made a gumbo by tasting it,” Cheramie said. “We cook down family lines.” At a French Table, or Cercle Francophone, where locals practise their French , person after person descended from Acadians here recalled how their grandparents were punished for speaking French at school because of prohibitive laws dating back to 1916.
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