European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 1, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Or Gar swim. I i Vic to off w i a continue from Page 13 their churches to hear King George it s proclamation confiscating their land Homes and Calette and exiling them along the Atlantic Seaboard. Soldiers hurried them Down to the wailing boats sometimes separating husbands from wives parents Dom children and parting lovers As in the tale Hawthorne told to Longfellow. Their tragedy Ell just Short of genocide. The British commander. Lord Jefrey Amherst who got a Liberal arts College named or him was All for  a letter to a col. Bouquette he urged you will do Well to try to spread smallpox by Means of blankets and by every other Means which might help exterminate that abominable  mostly trappers fishermen and armours the exiles settled into Louisiana s swampland where their Hardwood Loving descendants Seldom ventured beyond the Range of their Pirogue and pickup trucks until 1947 when the first Oil rigs loomed Over he marshes. Their cuisine culled from the Woods bayous Liny gardens and barnyard animals too old to produce called for slow cooking and High octane sauces to tenderize brisket of Squirrel wild Rabbit Alligator and senile sows. Even Down to this generation As both prudhome and Cahn recall cajuns Seldom went to the store even More rarely to a restaurant. We grew virtually everything we ale says prudhome who grew up the youngest of 13 children on a farm near Opelousas. It a Chicken did t  a rooster could t fertilize eggs or a Mother pig was Loo old to have babies to killed them for Ood for she  Gahn Points out that sauce piquant was a necessary camouflage when gourmand izing on Possum Muskrat and  it is doubtful whether Many yuppies Havering Over their cuisinart a in quest of authentic cajun fare could bring themselves to trim away any and All hair in preparing a 12-Pound hog s head for from age de Tete de Cochon head cheese or remove the glands located on each shoulder and behind the Knees of Squirrel and game Rabbit As prescribed in the prudhome family Cookbook. As for real Back Bayou cooking. Prudhomme regrets there Are almost no sources for purchasing fresh pig s blood to make red Boudin cajun sausage and admits he could t sell food cooked in pork lard in my  the five hags fluttering Hom the columned porch of a Presb Fere or pries is House in St. Martinville chronicle the course of cajun culture irom the Rule of French Bourbon Kings in 1756, to the Spanish in 1752, Napoleon s first Republic in 1800, Jefferson s Purchase of Louisana slates in 1803 and a Confederate government during the civil War. Jus Down the Road a piece Bubble the vats of two of the most prodigious purveyors ouse cajun Napa a known As hot Pepper sauce. The peppers called Tabasco from True Spanish word for Damp Earth have been grown in Louisiana since an unknown Soldier Back from the mexican War gave some dried peppers to Edmund Mcilhenny who planted the seeds in his wife s Garden on Avery Island. One Ware later trying to Salvage his Plantation ravished by Union troops he bolted and brought to Market a Batch of hot sauce. I now the family owned Ucol Lenny company with annual sales of nearly $12 million exports the incendiary elements of the bloody Mary lo100 countries and goes beyond Avery Island s still thriving Tabasco Palch to pick peppers from Mexico Honduras Venezuela Colombia and the dominican Republic. In nearby new Iberia . Trappey s sons have been marketing a variety of hot sauces pickled Cora candied yams redbeans and other cajun Staples Lor 90 years. The Arab countries Are our Best overseas Market for Pepper sauce says Jack blender Nan from behind the president s desk at the Trappey Plant. At lunch they la empty a three ounce bottle on a bit of bread and cheese. The japanese Are also big importers of our 55 gallon    the Pepper sauce business hotness is measured by the Scoville heat Index a sort of intestinal Btu scale that ranks the relatively hot Tabasco Jalapeno and Cayenne peppers in the 30,000 Range far behind the tiny chinese Pepper which testers above the 100.000 Mark. To handle the heat on Trappey s Pepper peking Assembly line workers Wear special gloves and Are warned not to rub their eyes. The craze or cajun culture has seemingly endless manifestations. Cajun humorist Justin Wilson s cooking cajun cooking Here prepared by chef Alex a Touton new Iberia la., if becoming even More popular. By Guy Coates associated press Achel Thompson of Opelousas. La had never lasted shrimp in her native Louisiana which is famous for its seafood and Ronnie Emonet had never heard the wind moan through the Piney Hills of his own state. Both ate 16 and represent the Best Hope for ,. Dismantling a Wall of mistrust built generations ago by two clashing cultures. Says Carole Andrepont of Opelousas who turned a joke into a serious Experiment that worked Andrepont a member  Louisiana tourism Board. Who has been Active in International youth Exchange programs Lor years jokingly Lold a Friend one Day if you want to have a real cultural Exchange have looks from North Louisiana come to South Louisiana it s like to different countries an almost visible Lino across Fifie Center of Louisiana separates the staid upstate protestants from the Catholic , who make time Lor work around a Busy schedule of consuming the full cup of life the descendants of Ihbe exiles from Nova Scotia make up a third of the state s population and those of different ancestry living in South Louisiana have absorbed the Laid Back lifestyle of the cajuns former gov. Edwin Edwsrd the first French speaking Catholic elected to the slate s highest office this Century says the division is Mare a perception than anything else but a perception can be  the Barrier exists in the. Minds of those who have not had the Opportunity to visit one end of the stale or Ino  he says. Bui invariably when in Edo Hoy come away with an amazement of How much in common  the Barrier is exaggerated but it s there adds gov buddy Romer whose family Plantation is not Lar irom Iho Arkansas Borden in North Louisiana. A real Factor has been a Lack of Quality Iran Portal Ion it s hard to get from upstate Shreveport Pago 14 the stars and stripes