Re: pressure cookers was Re: Need recommendations on security

On 15.05.2006 10:07, Mike Easter wrote:

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> Frog Prince wrote:
>> "User"
> 
>>> like Gumbo and Etouffee for instance.
>>
>> BTW when I
>> was in grade school we would get our knuckles cracked for speaking
>> French instead of English on the play ground.
> 
> Yabbut, Etouffee in this context isn't actually French [anymore].
> 
> Cajun is a distinct ethnic group, and its French isn't really French, it
> is Cajun - derived from the French Canadian Acadians, which Acadians
> have non-French ancestry, Indian, a smattering of German and Spanish.
> 
> French etouffee is some kind of stew in France.  Cajun etoufee is Cajun
> stew, a distinctly different set of dishes -- whether it be chicken,
> shrimp, crab, or crayfish, the archetypical Etouffee-Cajun  -  tban the
> 'nondescript' French etouffee
> 
> A Green Beret isn't wearing a French cap, either.
> 

In French, etouffee means to "braise" but in Cajun Country it means to
"smother". The late Justin Wilson was probably one of the foremost
authorities on etouffee. Attending a half dozen or so of his "picnics"
in Tickfaw, La. were memories not soon forgotten.

An etouffee remains an etouffee until you add tomatoes, after which it
becomes a "stew" according to most "purists".