Just back (so sadly) from five days in New Orleans, where I have finally learned what food is supposed to taste like. Now I know why the Katrina refugees we were honored to host nearly three years ago were so politely appalled at the church lady food they were served in the Civic Coliseum. (The children were much more blunt! 
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I came back with four cookbooks (among many other goodies.) Anyone here cook Cajun or Creole? Any suggestions for good substitutes for items not frequently found in the mountains of East Tennessee, or in Kansas, or Germany, or other points in the wilderness?
And I already know how to make a killer roux, so I'm one step down the road.
)I came back with four cookbooks (among many other goodies.) Anyone here cook Cajun or Creole? Any suggestions for good substitutes for items not frequently found in the mountains of East Tennessee, or in Kansas, or Germany, or other points in the wilderness?
And I already know how to make a killer roux, so I'm one step down the road.
What time is dinner?
@haulingthescoreup wrote:
Just back (so sadly) from five days in New Orleans, where I have finally learned what food is supposed to taste like. Now I know why the Katrina refugees we were honored to host nearly three years ago were so politely appalled at the church lady food they were served in the Civic Coliseum. (The children were much more blunt!
I came back with four cookbooks (among many other goodies.) Anyone here cook Cajun or Creole? Any suggestions for good substitutes for items not frequently found in the mountains of East Tennessee, or in Kansas, or Germany, or other points in the wilderness?
And I already know how to make a killer roux, so I'm one step down the road.
Back in the early 1980s I spent about six months on a work assignment in New Orleans; I stayed in a rental apartment full of OK but anonymous rented furniture off Chef Menteur Hwy between New Orleans East and Michoud, within sight of the Lake Pontchartrain levees, I don't recall the exact address. New Orleans was fascinating, if sometimes rather startling for a recent college graduate whose relatives were the sort of folks Garrison Keillor describes on NPR (I was born in Wisconsin). They also had a World Fair while I was there.
MattH wrote:
. New Orleans was fascinating, if sometimes rather startling for a recent college graduate whose relatives were the sort of folks Garrison Keillor describes on NPR
Well at least their children are "above average"
And that comment has moved into the statistical and sociological world:
The Lake Wobegon effect is the human tendency to overestimate one's achievements and capabilities in relation to others. It is named for the fictional town of Lake Wobegonn from the radio series A Prairie Home Companion, where, according to Garrison Keillorr, "all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, and all the children are above average". In a similar way, a large majority of people claim to be above average; this phenomenon has been observed among drivers, CEOs, stock market analysts, college students, police officers and state education officials, among others. Experiments and surveys have repeatedly shown that most people believe that they possess attributes that are better or more desirable than average.
Surveying drivers, Ole Svenson (1981) found that 80% of respondents rated themselves in the top 30% of all drivers. Asking college students about their popularity, Zuckerman and Jost (2001) showed that most students judged themselves to be "more popular than average".
In 1987, John Cannell completed a study that reported the statistically impossible finding that all states claimed average student test scores above the national norm.