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'Louisiana Creole cuisine' is a style of cooking originating in Louisiana (centered on the Greater New Orleans area) that blends French, Spanish, French Caribbean, African, and American influences. It also bears hallmarks of Italian cuisine. It is vaguely similar to Cajun cuisine in ingredients (such as the holy trinity), but the important distinction is that Cajun cuisine arose from the more rustic, provincial French cooking adapted by the Acadians to Louisiana ingredients, whereas the cooking of the Louisiana Creoles tended more toward classical European styles adapted to local foodstuffs.
Starting in the 1980s, Cajun influence became important, spurred by the popular restaurant of Chef Paul Prudhomme. A national interest in Cajun cooking developed, and many tourists went to New Orleans expecting to find Cajun food there (being unaware that the city was culturally and geographically separate from Acadiana), so entrepreneurs opened or rebranded restaurants to meet this demand.
With the rise of Modern American Cooking in the 1980s, a New Creole (or Nouvelle Creole) strain began to emerge. This movement is characterized in part by a renewed emphasis on fresh ingredients and lighter preparations, and in part by an outreach to other culinary traditions, including Cajun, Southern, Southwestern, and to a lesser degree Southeast Asian. While the Cajun food craze eventually passed, Modern Creole has remained as a predominant force in most major New Orleans restaurants.

Contents

Classic Creole Dishes

Appetizers

Soups

Main Dishes

Desserts

Beverages

Breakfast

Famous Creole restaurants in New Orleans

See also

External links

Classic Creole Dishes

Appetizers

★ Crabmeat Ravigote

★ Oysters Bienville

★ Oysters en Brochette

★ Oysters Rockefeller

★ Shrimp Remoulade

Soups

★ Crawfish Bisque

★ Gumbo

★ Oyster and Artichoke Bisque

★ Turtle Soup

Main Dishes

★ Crawfish Étouffée

★ Jambalaya

★ Shrimp Alfredeaux

★ Crawfish Fettuccini

★ Pompano en Papillote

★ Red Beans and Rice

★ Shrimp Creole

★ Chicken Creole

★ Trout Meunière Amandine

Desserts

★ Bananas Foster

★ Bread pudding

★ Beignets

★ King Cake (usually not served in restaurants, but certainly a New Orleans food)

★ Doberge cake ("Dobage" is an incorrect spelling.)

★ Pralines

★ Pecan Pie

Beverages

★ Café Brûlot

★ Café au lait

★ Hurricane

★ Ramos Gin Fizz

★ Sazerac

Breakfast

★ Calas

★ Eggs Sardou

★ Grillades and Grits

★ Pain perdu

Famous Creole restaurants in New Orleans

★ Antoine's

★ Arnaud's

★ Brennan's

★ Commander's Palace

★ Dooky Chase's

★ Galatoire's

See also

★ Cuisine of the United States

★ Southern U.S. cuisine

★ Cooking

★ Cuisine

External links

★ The creole cuisine of Austin Leslie from the late Pampy's Creole Kitchen in New Orleans is preserved in this eGullet pictorial from July of 2005.