Food Dude: Mardi Gras is a good time to savor Cajun and Creole tastes
If you're going to celebrate Mardi Gras properly, you should know there's a difference between Cajun and Creole food.
Refer to a Cajun dish as Creole, or vice versa, and you might find somebody dancing a Zydeco jig on your forehead if they've had enough Abita or Hurricanes to drink.
Put simply: Cajun is country food; Creole is from city folk.
Cajuns are descendants of French settlers who in the mid-18th...
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