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I just want to do a little contrast here, for a moment.

Many people, here, no doubt, think Paul Prudhomme is some kind of culinary god. 

Paul Prudhomme's Louisiana Kitchen, etc. Fair enough.

My own view is that this Cajun or creole Louisiana cuisine, not his work personally, but the genre, is, generally, a sad bastardization of something that was, at one time, in a place long ago, and far away, much better, chronicled in Paula Wolfert's The Cooking Of South-West France.