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Books: Cooking by Cuisine -> Cooking Canadian
A Taste of Acadie
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by:
Boudreau, Marielle Cormier
Gallant, Melvin
Oudemans, Michiel
Bauer, Ernest
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Publisher:
Goose Lane Editions
Published: December 1, 1991
ISBN: 0864921098
Format:Paperback
Pages:186
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Book Description
The Island Magazine
"Not just a how-to-do-it cookbook but an Acadian history encoded in foodways."
Product Description:
For A Taste of Acadie, Melvin Gallant and Marielle Cormier-Boudreau travelled all over Acadia, from the Gaspé Peninsula
to Cape Breton, from the tip of Prince Edward Island to the Magdalen Islands, and around northern New Brunswick and southern Nova Scotia. They gathered the culinary secrets of traditional Acadian cooks while there was still time, and then they adapted
more than 150 recipes for today's kitchens. A Taste of Acadie, the popular English translation of the best-selling Cuisine traditionelle en Acadie, is available once again this spring.
The indigenous cuisine of Acadia is a distant relative of
French home cooking, born of necessity and created from what was naturally available. Roast porcupine or seal-fat cookies may not be to every modern diner's taste, but the few recipes of this nature in A Taste of Acadie hint at the ingenuity of women who
fed their families with what the land provided. Most of the recipes, however, use ingredients beloved of today's cooks. Here you'll find fricot, a wonder of the Acadian imagination, pot en pot, a traditional Sunday dinner sometimes called grosse soupe,
and dozens of meat pies, variations on pand#226;té and#224; la viande. There's also pand#226;té and#224; la rapure, with a crust made of grated potatoes, and the popular poutine rapée, one of the few French dishes to survive the transition to the New
World, although certainly not in its original form. For those with a sweet tooth, Gallant and Cormier-Boudreau include recipes that use maple syrup and fresh wild berries, from poutine and#224; trou, a delectable mixture of apples, cranberries and nuts
in a rich pastry purse, to the cheekily named pets de soeurs (nun's farts), a biscuit with a puckered middle and a saucy Acadian name.
A Taste of Acadie is traditional cooking at its best, suffusing contemporary kitchens with country aromas and
down-home flavours. Decorated with evocative woodcuts by Michiel Oudemans, it is a pleasure to look at and a charming addition in its own right to contemporary country-style kitchens.
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