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Times Top 5: Cellphones as Cooking Tools
From the NY Times Dining Section 01.21.09

We're still grocery-list-on-scraps-of-paper people, but more and more cooks are using their cellphones to streamline their shopping, searching recipes in the grocery aisles and checking sustainable se...

Tip: How To Make a Brown Roux

A good, slow-cooked brown roux is the cornerstone of many Cajun and Creole dishes. Cooking it so that the roux browns slowly without burning is half patience and half practice-makes-perfect. Here are ...

Hot Coffee Cocktail: Café Brûlot

We came across this spiced and spiked after-dinner coffee while researching traditional dishes from Louisiana and haven't been able to stop thinking about it! With flavors of orange, clove, and bran...

Good Question: Cranberry Cajun Turkey Injection Marinade?

Here's a good question from reader Jason. He asks: This year I wanted to try something different when I fry my turkey and came up with the idea of a cranberry cajun injection. Have you ever heard of...

Sense of Place: The Flavors and Ingredients of Louisiana

Like Florida and Alaska, we felt that the Cajun and Creole cuisines of Louisiana deserved a mention all their own. Here you see a blending of Native American, French, Spanish, and African influences t...