#louisiana creole

[coneheads-deserved-a-noble-prize]

I AM SO TIRED OF PEOPLE ASSOCIATING ALASTOR WITH ONLY JAMBALAYA SO HERE ARE OTHER CREOLE DISHES YOU HEATHENS

Fanfiction and Comic creators, this is for you especially.

Crawfish Étouffée

This beautiful dish was invented in Breaux Bridge Louisiana, where our favourite radio star is from! Although it's invention is attributed the Herbet Hotel in the 1950s -after Alastors death- it is a classic.

Crawfish Étouffée has a sauce typically made from a blonde roux with that classic cajun seasoning. It contains the Holy Trinity of cajun cooking too: bell peppers, onions and celery. The main meat of this dish is crawfish tails and it is usually served with carbs like cornbread, cajun rice or vegetables such as green beans and potato salad.

It is chock full of flavour, and a filling inexpensive dish for low income families - which I believe Alastor is from.

Some alternatives to the crawfish are chicken and shrimp.

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The difference between Étouffée and Gumbo.

These two often get mixed up, and I understand, they're both classic Bayou dishes. Here's how to differentiate them.

Texture: Both dishes use shrimp, chicken, or crawfish tail broth. BUT Jumbo has a thicker consistency, it's made from a dark roux and it tends to use more liquid to remain stew-like.

Flavour: Gumbo and Étouffée both use Cajun seasoning, but due to Étouffées blonde roux, it has a lighter, sweeter taste than the darker, fullness of flavour in Gumbo.

Meat: Gumbo uses a variety of meats at the same time (often shrimp and sausage are key components), as mentioned in the alternatives above, Étouffée typically does not.

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2. Red Beans and Rice

We're on a roll guys! This is another dish from Louisiana! Although, it is specifically associated with New Orleans, where Alastor hosted his radio show. It has a fascinating history, partly due to it's African and French/Spanish routes - But it was also a struggle meal during the Great Depression. It was originally a Creole, not Cajun dish.

(Note: Red Beans and Kidney Beans are different legumes)

This dish also contains the Holy Trinity, as well as bay leaves, oregano, cayenne pepper, garlic powder and more. Its protein comes from Andouille sausages, but like Gumbo, a variety of meats are used. If you want Alastor to be traditional about it, he should make it on a Monday incorporating the left over ham bones from Sunday dinner. It is also complimented with long grain white rice and green beans, amongst many other things.

Considering Alastor witnessed the Stock Market Crash of 1929 -which led to the Great Depression - There is no way he hasn't come across this dish before.

3. Creole Bread Pudding

The queen of Creole Dessert has arrived. Can you guess where she's from? DING-DING-DING! That's right! New Orleans Louisiana baby! Recipes of this treat have been recorded since 1885, so it suffices to say she's a classic.

Like most bread puddings, it is made by combining stale bread (preferably French), beaten eggs and milk. However, this variation often has an incredible amount of vanilla extract. What it will be complimented with varies from person to person. Some examples are: Whipped meringue and whisky, raisins and apple, or walnuts and butter.

Although not as popular in the modern day, I like to imagine this is something Mimzy, Rosie and Alastor might share together on a day out.

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There you go! I hope you enjoyed this - but more importantly I hope this helps people create a more diverse version of those cosy Alastor cooking scenes that I love.

[thechanelmuse]

New Orleans Jazz Funerals

First the service. Then comes the second line. Louisiana Creoles celebrate the life of loved ones beyond death. 

[spyld]

Part of how I express my love of language is through writing multilingual characters. That gets hard when I’m working with a character who speaks a language I don’t, and that doesn’t have many online resources because it’s not a popular L2.

To which end I’m trying to find somebody who speaks Louisiana Creole who could check the grammar of a single line of dialogue.

I don’t suppose anybody who follows this blog speaks Creole or knows someone who does?

Hi, everyone!!

Can someone help out? Louisiana Creole needed :))

[eyboug]

Kouri-Vini (Louisiana Creole)

[backoftheoutfit]

Human Alastor Reference Guide.

Part 1: Essentials.

Mainlist and background information.

Drawing Biracial Characters

A Brief Guide on Designing Biracial Characters.

Portraying Mixed Ppl.

"The Louisiana Creole community are people of mixed French, African, Spanish, and Native American ancestry. An extraordinary Creole culture rich in traditions around food, literature, music, and more thrives in New Orleans." - Trinity Acklin.

A small photo collection of Louisiana Creole people.

A website dedicated to information about Creole people. (Note the website has not been updated for several years.) Also, A list of Notable Louisiana Creole People.

Color guides to skin tones.

Source and more detail about painting skin tones.

Little height guide Because he's 7ft tall in the show.

Bonus!

'A Chosen Exile': Black People Passing in White America.

Character design references visual library.

[worldwide-blackfolk]

[ciderjacks]

Will be saying this till I die that CREOLE DOES NOT MEAN BLACK/MIXED/NATIVE AND CAJUN DOES NOT MEAN YT ‼️‼️ Cajuns are a subset of Louisiana Creole (so all Cajuns are Creoles, not all Creoles are Cajuns. For the sake of this post though if I say “creoles” I mean non-Cajun Creoles) and the only difference between them is that Cajuns were typically dirt poor and lived in the bayou, while Creoles were typically wealthier and lived in the city and urban areas. There are black Cajuns, biracial Cajuns, and iirc nearly half of all Cajuns are native. There are also white Creoles. Cajun isn’t just “Creole but white” it’s a whole culture and community involving a lot of different ethnicities, and is very intertwined with southern indigenous cultures because of the proximity of the communities. The racial divide between Cajuns vs Creoles was caused by the sudden influx of white supremacy when Louisiana became U.S. territory- prior to that, black Creoles were legally considered white, and had all the privileges and power as a white person. (This is not to say it was some race-blind utopia, slavery was absolutely still a thing and in fact some wealthy Creoles owned slaves. Colorism was also a thing among Creoles. Your proximity to whiteness was largely dependant on your wealth and status.)

When the Louisiana purchase happened, American racism was then introduced to Creole and Cajun communities, and it tore through them really terribly. Subsequently, bc of a lot of shit, black/mixed people were categorized as Creoles, and so white people were categorized as Cajuns.

(This didn’t really stop the hatred of Cajuns and Cajun communities from white americans however, a mix of Cajuns being largely native and Cajuns being poor people who lived in the Bayou made them unpopular among “polite” white american society. Though it was harder to enforce any oppressive hate against them because the Cajuns were extremely isolated in the Bayou, tight knit, and had a reputation for being “dangerous” towards those who tried to come for them.)

[queer-poc-otd]

louis de pointe du lac

louis is revealed to be gay in season 1, episode 1 of interview with a vampire (2022-). he is black and creole.

[bulldykebluezz]

More of my face

[missjudijaikrazi]

Happy Creole Heritage Month to us! 🌱⚜️

[artfossils]

Rouxminate

Screen print on cotton paper, 2023.

[thechanelmuse]

Creole trail riding clubs were formed in South Louisiana in the 18th century. A sustained Black American tradition.

Photography by Jeremiah Ariaz

[romanchacon]

On June 15, 1939 Zora Neale Hurston recorded "Uncle Bud," a bawdy song found all over the South that went on to become a Cajun-Creole Zydeco classic. Hurston explains, "'Uncle Bud' is not a work song. It is a sort of social song for amusement." One of the first documented instances of the song in print appeared as "O-Bud!" in a Texas Folklore Society publication in 1928, collected in Virginia ca. 1924, but Hurston likely first heard the song from black working men while she was doing folklore field work in logging and terpantine camps in Louisiana. It's an invaluable audible artifact from almost a century ago. And it's quite raunchy to say the least! At the end, either Stetson Kennedy or Hurbert Halpert, the Library of Congress folk collectors in that session, say with an audible grin, "I think that's a very valuable contribution to scientific recording."

[little-desi-historian]

laissez le bon temps rouler…

[nonbinary-hacker]

ok this is really out of the blue but i have a character im making who is Rromani-Haitian Creole and i saw you mention that you're Romani-Creole so i wanted to maybe establish a contact 'cause im trying to educate myself about the cultures i include in my writing. (im gadje and mostly white)

that's not the only reason im sending an ask, i looked through your blog and you seem really interesting as a person too. (does that sound too desperate? i mean it though, i forgot why i was on your blog just scrolling through lol)

of course i understand that one person isn't an end-all, be-all source but i didn't really expect to run into anyone with the same ethnic background as my character this soon

gah im sorry this must be a weird ask to receive you probably just want to be left alone instead of annoyed with questions

Fare thee well

Hey! Sorry this got lost in my inbox! I think it’s awesome you’re writing a character like that!!! I’m definitely not an arbiter for Romani-Creole cross culture, but I could maybe point you in the right direction. In the interest of clarity, I’m not Haitian Creole, and instead Louisiana/New Orleans Creole, and don’t have much experience with Haitian Creole culture.

In my own experience, the cultures are pretty separate, although I guess that’s to be expected of a largely American culture vs an Eastern European/North Indian one. There are similarities in the way that both are kind of a melting pot of sorts, with Creoles having a culture that is largely a mixture of French, Spanish, and many African cultures, and Romani people having traditions of both their own cultures and those of the areas they’ve settled in. Languages are also often a patois of regional and independent ones as well.

Romani culture is also not monolithic, and there are several distinct cultures within it as well. Kalderash Roma are going to be different from Polska Roma, and so on.

All this to say, each culture has a lot of traditions and variations, so there’s some freedom if you’re creating a fictionalized version based on similar themes, but depending on if you want to really go into the minutiae of each culture, there’s admittedly a lot of research to do there.

Let me know if I can help!

[pigfromchino]

damn i didn't see that the afro-louisianan flag got made it looks so cool