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Gumbo (Gombô in Louisiana Creole, Gombo in Louisiana French) is a traditional Creole dish from New Orleans with French, Spanish, Native American, African, German, Italian, and Caribbean influences. It is a roux-based meat stew or soup, sometimes made with some combination of any of the following: seafood (usually shrimp, crabs, with oysters ...
Cherished Memories: Snapshots of Life and Lessons from a 1950s New Orleans Creole Village. iUniverse.com. ISBN 9781462003198. Malveaux, Vivian (2009). Living Creole and Speaking It Fluently. AuthorHouse. ISBN 9781467846486. Kein, Sybil (2009). Creole: the history and legacy of Louisiana's free people of color. Louisiana State University Press.
Louisiana Creole is a French-based creole language spoken by fewer than 10,000 people, mostly in the U.S. state of Louisiana. [4] Also known as Kouri-Vini, [1] it is spoken today by people who may racially identify as white, black, mixed, and Native American, as well as Cajun and Creole.
The Creole culture of Southwest Louisiana is thus more similar to the culture dominant in Acadiana than it is to the Creole culture of New Orleans [citation needed]. Though the land areas overlap around New Orleans and down river, Cajun/Creole culture and language extend westward all along the southern coast of Louisiana, concentrating in areas ...
Vincent fled to New Orleans, Louisiana with her parents as a child. The flag of New Orleans, Louisiana. In the early 19th century, floods of Creole refugees fled Saint-Domingue and poured into New Orleans, nearly tripling the city's population. Indeed, more than half of the refugee population of Saint-Domingue settled in Louisiana.
Roy F. Guste – author of ten Louisiana French-Creole cuisine cookbooks; fifth-generation proprietor of New Orleans' famed Antoine's Restaurant, established in 1840; Thomy Lafon (1810–1893) – businessman, philanthropist, and human rights activist; Austin Leslie (1934–2005) – internationally famous New Orleans chef whose work defined ...
The history of New Orleans, ... Hurricane Katrina and the disappearance of Creole New Orleans." Journal of American History 94.3 (2007): 752–761.
After the Civil War, some Louisiana Creole refugees returned to New Orleans and Louisiana. Between July 28, 1915, and August 1, 1934, the United States occupied Haiti and established colorism and Jim Crow laws .