New Orleans BBQ Shrimp: Slow Food Fast
One of the goals of slow food aficionados is preserving traditional, regional cuisine. New Orleans has been doing this for almost three centuries, mainly because Creole food put down such deep, irrefutable roots. Thanks to Louisiana’s incredible natural bounty from rivers, forests, bayous, and the Gulf of Mexico, cooks from France, Spain and Africa were inspired to create America’s one true native cuisine. Their world-renowned gumbos, jambalayas and étouffées are as far from fast food as you can get, and the fact that millions of foodies still seek them out proves they’ve stood the test of time. When a handful of New Orleans chefs reconfigured classic recipes to fit the nouvelle cuisine demands of the ’70s, customers stayed away in droves...
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