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Creole Jambalaya

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Recipe -- Creole Jambalaya
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New Orleans Seafood Cookbook
by Ralph Brennan

This rice dish is one of the oldest in the traditional New Orleans Creole cook's repertoire. It shares characteristics with Spanish paellas, but it has even stronger connections with traditional African rice cookery.

Some have speculated that "jambalaya" is a contraction of jambon a la ya-ya marrying the French word jambon, for ham, with the old African Bantu word ya-ya, for rice.

Over the decades, jambalaya has taken on a multitude of identities in South Louisiana. The classic New Orleans dish with shrimp and ham is among the "red" jambalayas, thanks to the presence of tomatoes in it. In many of the Cajun communities to the west of the city, "brown" jambalayas, with oysters, giblets and lusty country sausages, are more familiar.

In present-day New Orleans homes, Jambalaya's easy preparation makes it popular party fare, especially during such local celebrations as Mardi Gras and the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival.

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Recipe -- Maple Mustard Salmon
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Salmon fillets for four

2/3 cup melted butter
tbsp. dried dill
cup maple syrup
cup Dijon style mustard

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Those who make light of and disparage the value of the British contribution to cooking would do well to remember Dover sole, York ham, Finnan haddock, smoked Scottish salmon; Stilton, Cheddar, Caerphilly and numerous other cheeses; Dundee marmalade, Earl Grey tea, Worcestershire sauce, chutneys, Cumberland sauce, Mulligatawny, trifles and fools, numerous puddings, Cornish Pasties, Hot Cross Buns, Chelsea Buns, crumpets, scones, cockaleekie, and don't forget single malt whisky, and British ales and stouts.

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"I did toy with the idea of doing a cook-book. . . . I think a lot of people who hate literature but love fried eggs would buy it if the price was right."<
Groucho Marx, 'Groucho and Me' (1959)

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1) The following all took place during the same year. Can you guess the year?
~ Kellogg introduced Pop-Tarts toaster pastries.
~ General Mills introduced Lucky Charms cereal.
~ The French dairy cooperatives introduced Yoplait Yogurt in France.
~ Maxim freeze dried instant coffee is introduced by General Foods.
~ The U.S. government defines Bourbon as whiskey with at least 51% corn liquor and aged in new charred-oak barrels.
~ Rocky Aoki opens his first Benihana of Tokyo restaurant in New York.
~ The first Arby's restaurant is opened.

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About the Chef: Chef James Ehler has been cooking for over 35 years, spending a little more than 5 years apprenticing with several Colorado chefs, and was a working Executive Chef for 20 years. Ehler is the webmaster, chef, editor and publisher for foodreference.com.