The Cajun people, originally from Eastern Canada and known as Acadians, immigrated to the Southeastern United States in the 1700s. Modern-day Creole people are descendants of colonial French ...

What’s more, Cajun and Creole culture were both influenced by free people of color, enslaved Africans, and Native American ...

New Orleans is a Creole city.” The story behind Cajuns, on the other hand, is simply that of a people immigrating to Louisiana after being expelled from what is now Nova Scotia.

Looking more broadly at Cajun and Creole foods as categories ... by looking to the diversity of its people, along with their cultural backgrounds, and seeing how those backgrounds have mingled ...

The people here loved it when they encountered ... It's a quick study of Cajun and Creole living,” he said. On tap musically for the Friday through Sunday event are performances by 60 musicians ...

Creole cuisine encompasses the dishes of those born in Acadia before it became part of the U.S., including French Canadians, West Africans, indigenous Chitimacha and Choctaw peoples, and people of ...