On Fri, Mar 30, 2007 at 02:40:22PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > > Every time I see a Cajun Cuisine restaurant, I laugh at how stupid > people are. Cajun food is (ok, *was*) about as poor-folks as you > can get. > The same can be said of barbacoa (originally a Mexican peasant food), paella (originally a Spanish peasant food), and another Brazilian food a friend told me about (which name escapes me at the moment).
Of course, potatoes were long seen as a peasant food until Louis (IIRC, though I forget which Louis it was) planted a royal garden with potatoes and set guards around it. Then it became high class food staple. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com
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