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A Taste of Acadie by Marielle Cormier-Boudreau and Melvin Gallant. Translated by Ernest Bauer. Illustrations by Michiel Oudemans is a cooking available to read on EtoBox.
What is A Taste of Acadie about?
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. First published in 1991, A Taste of Acadie, the popular English translation of the best-selling Cuisine traditionalle en Acadie, is available once again. 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. For those with a sweet tooth, Gallant a
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- Author
- Marielle Cormier-Boudreau and Melvin Gallant. Translated by Ernest Bauer. Illustrations by Michiel Oudemans
- Publisher
- Fredericton, N.B. : Goose Lane
- Published
- 1991
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780864921093
- Category
- cooking
- Subjects
- Education, Cooking, History
- Rating
- 4.7 / 5 (63 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14