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pain-perdu - Creole news from John LaFleur

CREOLE CULTURE -NEWS FLASH 

 by John laFleur II, 2014 

Le Petit-Dejeuner du Dimanche: Pain-perdu au 'limon' -toujours une tradition culinaire du monde Creole a la louisiane!

Le pain-perdu se fait avec l'usage du pain qui est en train de se perdre, ou lequel qui est deja moisie. D' un 'bapteme' du lait emulsifie' des oeuffes, de la vanille, un peu de la muscade, de la canelle et du sucre et frie dans un poelle a frir, sorte-t-elle une nouvelle patisserie qui est a la fois crepe et galette- "le pain-perdu une confection auquel on peut aussi servir un peu de la marmelade pour encore adoucir cet evenement de la bonne vie!
Poudrez tous ce 'gateau' ou le tas de pain avec du sucre poudre' et une pincee du cayenne et WOW!
Il en faut une bonne tasse de cafe' noir ou 'au-lait' comme vous le preferiez chez John laFleur's Louisiana Creole Food Club a Washington!

Pain-perdu a l'orange et au limon est toujours connu et cuit a travers les Antilles, la Belgique, la Suisse et aussi a la France toujours!
Pour moi, comme un Creole-metis louisianais et savant de la culture creole louisianaise 'pain-perdu' reste un metaphor excellent pour representer et se rapeller de gens furent rejete's de la France, de l' Europe et de l' Afrique, lesquels gens selon l'avis du metropole et de ces autres societie's n'avaient aucune valeur humaine!
Paradoxalement, ces gens-la' -fondateurs de notre monde et nos ancetres auxquels se trouveraient les 


Amerindiens et plus tard, les pauvres Acadiens s' auraient tous uni d'une culture unique-mais oppose'e, menacee et ne jamais prevue a leurs 'superieure' dont le resultat serait la naissance de la culture de la louisiane, creole et metis distingue'e parmis tous les autres cultures creoles diseminer a travers de l'autrefois grand empire francais colonial.

Apres cette petite histoire, vous etes pret pour aller a la messe!
Bon appetit, mes chers creoles et francophones au monde entier!

Translation: Sunday Breakfast: "French Toast" w/ lemon/lime remains a Creole culinary tradition in Louisiana!

"French Toast" is made from old bread or bread which was in the process of molding. Through a 'baptism' of egg-emulsified milk, vanilla, a bit of nutmeg, cinnamon and sugar, this battered bread is then friend in a black iron skillet, from which emerges a new pastry, which is also something of a a crepe and little cake -'pain-perdu' which we can also be served with a little marmelade to sweeten this fine living event! Dust the whole 'cake' or stack, with powdered sugar and a pinch of cayenne and WOW!

Also needed is a good cup of black coffee or w/ milk as one prefers it, at John la Fleur's Creole Food Club in Washington!
Pain-perdu a l'orange and w/ lemon is still known and cooked across the French Antilles, Belgium, Switzerland and also in parts of France.
For me, as both a native Louisiana French Creole & metis cultural scholar, "pain-perdu" remains an excellent metaphor for the unwanted people from France and Europe, to Africa who were cast out of their societies as 'unfit' for any 'good use' as was the case, with used or molded bread which was saved by recycling it into a useful, but changed product; and I might add, a deliciously unique product!
Paradoxically, these our people, which was to include the Amerindians and later, the Acadians, too would all unite together in an unforeseen, unwanted and threatened interracial, intercultural culture unforeseen by their 'superiors' resulting in a unique Louisiana Creole & metis people and culture distinct from all others spawned across the former great French Colonial Empire.
After this short history, you ARE ready to go to Mass!
Bon appetit, my beloved Creoles!

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