Adapted from “Chef Paul Prudhomme’s Louisiana Kitchen.” He writes, “Cajuns like their cornbreads and dressings sweet, so the crumbled cornbread we start with in this dish is sweet.

Oh, the joys of pre-Thanksgiving gluttony. Cajun gluttony at that. That was the case in The Tribune test kitchen recently as Paul Prudhomme, 46, the man who made ”Cajun” a culinary household ...

"This (Red Bean Bisque) recipe kind of grew from the spark of creativity that (chef Paul Prudhomme ... cracklins' and serve with your favorite cornbread. Love New Orleans food?

Paul Prudhomme, a self-taught Louisiana cook who seared his way into popular culture as the king of Cajun food, whose gumbo, jambalaya and blackened redfish made him one of the country’s most ...

Thirty years ago this past summer, a 25 year-old New Jersey deli cook named Mitch Rosenthal traveled into New York City to try to meet Paul Prudhomme. He wasn't alone.

Chef Paul Prudhomme opened his now-legendary New Orleans restaurant K-Paul’s Louisiana Kitchen in 1979, but the moment that made him a national phenomenon — and helped change the direction of ...

Paul Prudhomme knows all about comfort food. The famous Cajun chef knows the comfort that comes from both the cooking and the eating. So when Hurricane Katrina overwhelmed New Orleans, Prudhomme ...

NEW ORLEANS — Paul Prudhomme, the Cajun who popularized spicy Louisiana cuisine and became one of the first American restaurant chefs to achieve worldwide fame, died Thursday. He was 75.

Paul Prudhomme, the chef who popularized modern Cajun and Creole cuisine in New Orleans and across the country, has died at the age of 75. Prudhomme’s name may not have made it as far and wide ...

Learn more. NEW ORLEANS — At his New Orleans restaurant, legendary chef Paul Prudhomme proudly showed off dishes and ingredients from his upbringing in Louisiana’s rural Cajun country ...

Paul Prudhomme was born on July 13, 1940, on his family’s farm near Opelousas, Louisiana, the youngest of 13 children. His parents were sharecroppers, and the family was poor.