SC - Cooking Shows WAS: Starter Recipes

[Mordonna22 at aol.com]

In a message dated 3/6/2000 5:00:12 PM US Mountain Standard Time, 
margali at 99main.com writes:

<< 
 Then there is always the fun of trying to get somebody to define the
 differences between cajun, creole and coonass without being penalized
 for non-pc dom at the first mention of the 3d term... >>

'Cajuns are descendants of the French Acadian colony displaced by the 
English.  Creoles are a mix of French, Spanish, Native Americans, and Black 
slaves.  Coonass is a perjoritive term for either of these, and mostly is 
used for the ones living in the back waters of the bayous.


Mordonna the Cook,
SunDragon's Western Reaches
Atenveldt
(m.k.a. Buckeye, AZ)