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Smoked meat goes with seafood

For the uninitiated, Cajun cooking is the same wherever bonafide Cajuns exist.

But as a born and bred Cajun, Tony Soileau knows better. The 47-year-old dentist lives in Lafayette now, but he was raised in Pine Prairie in Evangeline Parish.[…]

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Collette crosses cooking cultures

Some people just love to cook. Collette Weaver of Slidell is like that.

She cooks Italian (red sauces and veal parmesan), country (white gravy, and chicken and dumplings), Cajun (white beans, rice dressing and brown jambalaya) and New Orleans (red jambalaya and stuffed mirlitons).[…]