On Fri, Mar 30, 2007 at 04:00:48PM EST, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > 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.
Tells you how low we have sunk doesn't it .. ? > 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). That would be the "feijoada" > 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. Probably Louis XV or possibly .. Louis XVI .. ? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antoine-Augustin_Parmentier Enjoy the hash (hachis) .. :-) Thanks, cga
