Roux Memories: A Cajun-Creole Love Story with Recipes [Paperback]

Belinda Hulin (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 14, 2010

250 authentic Cajun and Creole
recipes and memories from a Louisiana native

 

In Louisiana, life happens in the kitchen. Children are reared and lives unfold over bubbling pots of gumbo, bowls of shelled peas, and shaved-ice sno-balls. The kitchen is the happy hub where heritage is conveyed, culinary traditions evolve, and Cajun and Creole cuisine is at its finest. Unfortunately, when Hurricanes Katrina and Rita destroyed homes and neighborhoods and displaced hundreds of thousands of people in Louisiana, bonds were stretched, and many recipes lost. Fortunately, Roux Memories offers the Louisiana diaspora—as well as anyone else with a love for Cajun and Creole fare—250 home-tested recipes along with snippets of life from a Cajun family with four decades of roots in New Orleans.

 

Accompanying the recipes are vintage family and food photos as well as sidebars explaining the roots of Cajun and Creole cooking. Recipes include crawfish gumbo, Cajun corn soup, shrimp remoulade, New Orleans shrimp boil, hickory and spice burgers, cochon de lait, crawfish pie, alligator fritters, chicken and sausage jambalaya, pork cracklins, cracklin cornbread, dirty rice, king cake, pecan pralines, syrup cookies, and many more Cajun and Creole favorites.

 

Editorial Reviews

About the Author

Belinda Hulin was stirring in gumbo pots before she could walk. The Louisiana native has long written about food for newspapers and magazines, and she is the author of The Everything Fondue Party Book, The Everything Pizza Cookbook, The Everything Soup, Stew and Chili Cookbook, and Knack Chinese Cooking. She currently divides her time between her home in Atlantic Beach, Florida, and her hometown of New Orleans, where she conjures her ancestors, one dish at a time.

Product Details

• Paperback: 320 pages
• Publisher: Lyons Press; First edition (September 14, 2010)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0762759054
• ISBN-13: 978-0762759057
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 8 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #985,053 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Belinda Hulin was stirring gumbo pots before she could walk. The Louisiana native has long written about food for newspapers and magazines, and she is the author of five cookbooks, including the memoir cookbook Roux Memories: A Cajun-Creole Love Story with Recipes. She divides her time between New Orleans, Louisiana, and Atlantic Beach, Florida. Visit her at www.belindahulin.com or at www.RouxMemories.com.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A joy for the soul as well as the palette, September 26, 2010

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Cathi Berndt "craft lover" (Cincinnati, OH) - See all my reviews
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I just received my copy of Roux Memories. What a treat! My 90-year-old mother was born in New Orleans and has fond memories of living there. She also has a fascination with great food. These two subjects enjoy a perfect marriage from Belinda's pen. I am giving the book to mom for Christmas and can hardly wait to see her expression when she opens it. I am sure she will be revisiting her childhood once she is lost in the great stories snuggled within these pages. I anticipate many exciting "mother-daughter" conversations sprinkled with southern stories of her own as she is reacquainted with her roots through Roux Memories. I strongly recommend this book to anyone wanting to experience the joy of Cajun cooking in their own home. The stories could be a book in themselves and Belinda has blended them to make the recipes that much more appealing. A joy for the eyes, the soul and the palette!

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Roux Memories is a Winner, September 20, 2010

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Ruth Chambers "author" (Florida) - See all my reviews
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What a joy to review this book! Be sure you have some time to enjoy yourself when you open Belinda Hulin's Cajun-Creole Roux Memories because you won't be able to put it down. So much more than a cookbook, it's a memoir, a trip to another culture, a love story and yes, recipes. And what recipes! You don't have to be Cajun to fall in love!

Brimming with vignettes, pictures, history, and recipes to suit every palette, it's a wonderful addition to any library, kitchen, cozy nook or backyard hammock. The kind of book they call a wonderful read.

Hulin deserves a public service award for rescuing recipes that barely escaped being washed away by Katrina. It was a painstaking task to record the ones from her mother's recipe box and then she spent hours recreating the ones that weren't down on paper. They're on paper now though, complete with measurements and the proper ingredients. The result is a gift to posterity. Roux Memories tops my list for gifts to friends and family this Christmas. Do yourself a favor and put it on yours too.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I carry it all over the house!, February 9, 2011

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Shannon Broussard (Sulphur, Louisiana United States) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Roux Memories: A Cajun-Creole Love Story with Recipes (Paperback)

I happened to find this at my local library by chance and checked it out...and couldn't put it down. I carried it everywhere, mesmerized by the stories, photos, and recipes. Growing up in Southwestern Louisiana the entire book just resonated with me and brought back so many memories. The recipes are so spot on to what I grew up eating, some I know how to cook and some I don't. I've since purchased my own copy and have used several recipes. I still carry it around the house, I think my husband thinks I'm nuts. LOL!