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Food lovers and local home cooks are invited to Southdown Plantation & Museum this November for an afternoon with the “Queen of Acadian Cuisine” Marcelle Bienvenu!
Marcelle Bienvenu will be signing copies of her cookbook, Who’s Your Mama, Are You Catholic, And Can You Make A Roux? that will be sure to make you the best gift-giver this holiday season. At the signing, Chef Don Kasten will interview Marcelle about her five-decade career in the culinary world, her time as an instructor at the Culinary Institute, and the journey behind publishing the new edition of her cookbook.
The signing and presentation will take place Sunday, November 24, 2024 from 1:30-3:30 PM at Southdown Plantation & Museum in Houma.
Photos provided.
Marcelle owned and operated the restaurant Chez Marcelle, near Lafayette, Louisiana, and has worked for several restaurants, including Commander’s Palace and K-Paul’s Louisiana Kitchen in New Orleans. A graduate of the University of Lafayette in Louisiana, she was also an instructor at the Chef John Folse Culinary Institute at Nicholls State University for eleven years and lives on Bayou Têche in St. Martinville. Louisiana, with her husband, Rock Lasserre.
Marcelle has been preparing Cajun and Creole dishes since the 1960’s, and has written pieces on Creole/Cajun cooking for The Times Picayune and Time-Life Books, and has been featured in Garden & Gun, Food & Wine, Saveur, Southern Living, Redbook, The New York Times, Louisiana Life, and Acadiana Profile.
Marcelle has also authored Who’s Your Mama, Are You Catholic, and Can You Make A Roux?, Who’s Your Mama…(The Sequel), and Cajun Cooking for Beginners. She co-edited Cooking Up A Storm: Recipes Lost and Found (Times Picayune, 2008) which was nominated for a James Beard Award in 2009. She worked with Emeril Lagasse for fifteen years and co-authored several cookbooks with him including Louisiana Real & Rustic, Emeril’s Creole Christmas, Emeril’s TV Dinners, and Every Day’s A Party. See her full biography here.
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