Fat Tuesday gets lost in the shuffle with Valentine’s Day, some years. But honestly, it should be the other way around. Dallas has some wonderful Cajun food, and we should feast like kings year-round.
Cajun food is steeped in historical and cultural distinction. The cuisine can be traced back to about 14,000 French Canadians deported from northeastern Canada for refusing to submit to the British king. Some of these exiles made their way to southern Louisiana, where they acclimated to the bounty the gulf state provided while also mixing and mingling with Native Americans, Black Creoles, Germans, Spaniards and Italians, according to Global Foodways.
When Hurricane Katrina ravaged Southern Louisiana in 2005, displacing residents, the cuisine spread more rapidly to new communities, including North Texas. Much of the best Cajun food today can be found at food trucks, but there are also restaurants, some high-class, others with live music, and all of them laissez les bons temps rouler…