A Word on Words; 0915; Carlo Di Napoli

- Transcript
gm building of the world of books and their other this week are loaded napoli talks about the cajun or may your host for a word and where is mr johnson publisher of the tennessee good evening ladies and gentlemen once again welcome to word on words the nude only talking about something that's of interest to all this food something's of special interest to make asian food the books call the cajun gourmet afloat long road and lock their car loaded napoli welcome toward our pleasure to be here john is a great pleasure to have you to talk about the cajun or miami you you know i don't have many people are on this program written cookbooks occasional may have been civilian clothes iron i'm trapped like a fish case and food has been buried for me and i have taken the bait i'm glad that you're here to talk about what a unique form with unique cuisine well cajun food is like a drop into a deep
background taking came from canada but there's many other importers that was already there in louisiana that gives these sets this trap of the spanish were there well before the french english and sometimes the americans that came down from kentucky and weigh on the tennesseans came down that lots of good food are brought to it and blended in together and he wrote that in a delicious think all cajun now there are many types of cajun cooking true cajun cooking is what's un in cajun country that's why this book is cajun country cooking this is not restaurant cage this is not a creole this is not the delicious spicy black creole so this is three different type this is the way mama cooks and home now to many people equate with occasion that's the theory being i think mistaken
theory you tell me if i think in theory those gauges got to be hot name blackened redfish black and white fish blackened chicken mean and there is a there is so that the overlook in color of louisiana that produces an awful lot that but i guess in the mind of the public and maybe because russian food is a cajun written on is not that that the myth has built up a tell me tell me why that's in there of course when they are the three types of cajun cooking the creole the cage and the black real when the slaves were brought up on the islands and central america from there they had this enormous spanish influence that came from spain and from the indies memo these delicious peppers came from central america and that influence of food a great deal and when they were transported into louisiana they brought all these delicious spicy days with them some people love that the creole which
is creole is a combination of spanish and french ok rio was a combination of the spanish and after americans these combinations develop food the cajun food itself is from cajun country i'll pay in louisiana bayou country so these three foods developed in themselves they're a bland and they're wonderful days but it's a misnomer to think that all cage and cooking is not terribly self care because if everybody in louisiana got nothing but hot food that wouldn't get now the other thing is that i find them sting is the is the young who the cajun language so speedily and it probably it is not accurate to call it simply an accent now it is in a unique way a language it so i hope they preserve
there's some were going on a way to preserve the cajun language like if in france when i was over there i came came out said promise of law and the people started laughing cause it's only different than french they think that's all it noted a look at two of the lions look but the cajun food itself has lots a lovely sauces each cage and down there believes the people in the wall and an outside and around each believe they know i'm a jumble i have the best unfortunately it's not what was it ah well you know if you have stuffed into this remarkable little book it's almost a loose leaf book the full range of
of love of the main youtube delivered all serve any bodies out now what about the fourth fifth and the other thing is in the navy was they go well it is only five no a race only only after cocktails and accurate and you had a few shooters and enduring are ready for of four or something that is the case sly sure you're really like it but i'm not sure how much rather like a book and when you listen yeah but no it's not a dinner lady you know it's not donate food only this is a wonderful thing this question dear putting into place here because often in atlanta are on tv and several other
tv programs this is an idea have you're the first person to say hey cajuns might eat breakfast andy masi launch exactly and i have the odd years now on thursday's inaugural so just unbelievably delicious and i must tell you this the desserts are not that they did not have a lot of calories in it there are seeing this book on friday you get into daily brownie by anne dupre blames yoko framing not those cases that they would make all imply range freely and i'm in trouble and i don't know i always say is that it begins with a it's the pottery lottery bahrain's and the columns wanting them to go a goal that's a lot of people and you know we had a big big city wearing his big and yet we know you're big on
the only other development on the level of those semi sweet yeah you know the same set as a semi designed semi sweet chocolate but we had a big famous case down there laid out the conan who would have been on rumours and economists are now among the gong for now you know with the movie when alan to keep all the ut tahrir spells with a couple to ah ha an outside somebody invades and the list has gotten him as a sneak down in louisiana that does go up well you know we could spend all day going through this book and the recipes that i just commend it to our readers having having gone through it and found that a dozen dishes that i wanted it and i don't really go on out not go on to
sell it really fascinating aspects of book and what were the reasons that would involve heavy on this program first of all you do use a little it is little of taste of of the language that would detail you see contagion bill foster's all difficult questions all are o u g h g a b and said wait maybe it absolutely may be is one is to get a look into it absolutely maybe you say that allows which call off a narrow possibilities i don't think god the proper way to answer them all with a definite maybe a definite and then you add that maybe any that they do this reliably given the depth and maybe as a lookout mobile low knew that though about it until a new mile boat motor i'm allowed to use a bit and that's a definite maybe even say not by away i got that now
the same weight as the mother in the mud and more money involved in ludlow were noncommittal were that sick she come out unless you sell that has a certain i didn't raise my god given a painting is critical make up all mine which you said it was yes or no an outcry in some works at birth and dial this a way out of a difficult situation nominal what has been all says they invented excuses will be invented a phobia little guy come on the green suv a dozen plays a baldwin in a candid and they did an animated bands can you obviously know i read stuff out as when we get a big old number well as an annulment only way to be a little stall but you know also
you talk about ru ru now the mystery of who should be clarified know you pretty strong felon your questions because it's avoided like a plague another tv sets and you just come right up and say okay a room it's the easiest thing to make it has many taunts and columns it doesn't mean us special pot and especially whisk and a special listener special that kate tempest flour that i want and i see have a special problem that specified for on the table to seven and not unhappy that a great deal with that he'd been all kinds of things so that you have to have equal parts of oil they two tablespoons of your make a nice potter spell add two tablespoons flour get that all real hot don't smoke it and born a paddle only we call up our place
into flour blend in well now the bid cold water cold milk called kareem now these things did it hot the victim materials or a hot and blended in do were about even on the stove and spilled an annoying self taken all blended and put it back they toast then of the flour mix the color of the room and runs the gambit of the what pugh white witch of cream a wine sauce was a with some delicious ish the cream color is that what you'd normally do with you grew to make something like a white saw white meat that you are fish you shrimp pork that type of meat that alligator although that's good hour at allegheny a good recipe and ethics and it all but i want ask about i want ask about it would ruin a movie out okay if you leave it on the stove a little longer work and a good witch or wooden
spoon you really get to like brown unit in a dark brown unit at a doctor rate brown take it off when you first met your liquid because that stuff will get away from gaza to keep on dog years ago and after you could call a tow you want a blended and put it back on the air and all kinds of wonderful things will happen now when you start on but the talent is something say well you're not really it's like an alligator talk about to talk about how it is values unpaid income country are well i want it up to learn about a delegate they get upset if they bid for you know look at that lake did you know that and so what
elevated you think of anything an alligator that you can work with pork you can work with chicken or you can work with veal when i talk about a far as adult meet a chicken there's nothing special to it that's how it's going to taste it as a delicious taste europe and like all fish crawfish is excellent law faces a pike but because they call it a crawfish to call the pressures to throw away they call it something else in the stores and people by like great you know i i like skating cook and that i believe are probably a minimal press on alligator allegations sauce become now a gay group on mustard sauce slide out futon with it you've taken all of the alligator casserole alligator creole style than an if you look and validate in the book in comic effect come friday
at the rabbit and quail in just before fall from a sword now that they raised which you do have a nice index in the back the breakdown nothing but his book that i like i love the desserts have been to bribe i think that over that big but ah the kitchen hands and then you give up clean up hints right in the back cab and and yeah i'm not a cook i'm not i can hold up going i'm rob ades in orbit be careful not to hardball a veteran my backyard bone cells but i found the kitchen hands fascinating and my guess is that then women both in the kitchen identify and maple and health if you know swedish ed solve many have pretty obvious but it's not
obvious to me and it's not obvious to the new cook is not that's dr small and they did so then gradually it will eliminate excess greece i feel ill taken paths agrees up bring up you can skim it very easy in the case agrees you days away our goats it let us buy a lemon juice to local water and soap for now the river join you think you just got i'm still really that's huge shit list is if you've got the root end of an onion let's write a letter because i'm out of this is that that's about that's a fact little salt spray an affront to help of inspiring right because the salt would be immediately dissipate through inability people popping all nothing's going to happen in his first place what was it because the compensation will take and the chill of the fort they can strike them often it'll come right out the defense well they often they're out there are plenty more helpful is in here
which i just didn't taste of intimate cleanups before i can find a place to alibaba's think act as a cushion to write a lot of good work it's built in chips and things and that just to tell them it's going to get wet or whatever it is but when you drop it down in the bottom of that halts they get in trouble not been shifted all of their one of those things you don't wanna go spend a whole bunch of money on expensive that unless i was seven that's for a fast and simple clean up of the hand grater rob salad all graded for use lubricated nothing's going to stick your body's natural supporters and when you take and all of this i mean you're the pilot both inside and out of yellow light amount of the rotation on football can come of that noting is that everybody thinks they are but many people think what they did for me is really not healthy fight they say if it came from nabi biggest car loaded napoli the trees the major
khouri counted in the back as india's big or little you want them all together on all of you only this particular occasion book here i did an extensive amount of research on the took five years to put together a really and i collected things that were the research on the study of food is one of the things i love to do where the corn came from where this course came from where couples came from whether potatoes came from all these things they're arjun how that they go how they will receive that all of the stuff it's important to understand the food as well as to cook it i get fat and i loved the size and me because a lot of close as though you're watching and i listen no about ailes are watching it by either party well i think people obese toddlers on a buffalo the people who won the thin wire was to wait the gallery galleries in the back of the book as a lever dominated i don't want this war to make his job loving about that i could
give away for the gop well i think the other thing is titian to be uncomfortable we decide who should become bleep out very counter that i know that he writes children's books i know that you've illustrated your own book designed it no sorry let's talk a bit about the writing a children's books because i had sung authors of children's books on this program you know it takes a special talent not to write down to write understandably for june without writing down q and a and girl we were all raised with that same program that said this is john this is jane this has to proceed dog jump right bob and today's today's children's book seemed to me to be much
improved over i right as are a natural human right commercially who buys a book the overwhelming majority of the books of what my grandmother for the trial all model of the chao a grandmother granddad was a great deal of books my writing consists of all births the creatures in it and what you should bring to it not take from it the long necked bird of a longboat key is about a very ostentatious part he's alive is right at the end of the dock where my boat says he has a class of privilege class to it he has a last minute and his attitude was quite concerned that i was speaking to about not having
the money to be where he was he felt he was on a privilege so i place this conversation between the two and the underprivileged child and the bird who was guaranteed privilege but the bird asked the young man can you run and you walk that would be a privilege to some can you see all these wonderful privileges that were given by the divide to his sky not the bird and it talks about his privilege of taking care of the earth and this is where i go with my books i illustrate them i like that they can have the creatures attitude carry the story rather than having a live human in it i have no like humans in my work well on a note in this
book there are some there are some suggestions on books to come close and the onion patch on to dump the earth and also knowing whale from woefully is already in a way that will work for more fully is ready for print it's in deep discussion i have to change to ports of the art work i reached and part of it in native of the two said it's a story about a swan it as a device they wanted to be not as sad because this little whale had the most beautiful tail in all the world he had i actually it's a tale or mama got a fly on this any sacrifices dale to save the dolphins his friend i never had a whale had such a tail in me when i was solely struck when i forgot to duck and i lost my love to all my days it seemed never to be against them free to swim in the
open sea i tried to hide the stone to cry has never had a whale had such retailers me alight did come with the morning sun as my sense that song was sung sandhu fills my ocean what is said the motion and the sound of his worst fears and the words are painting the support i had to change a little whalen said no light in the sky a few cries for there is a whale without a tale of float on the nbc and allied said oh little blow for whale without appeal what would you do if i gave you and him to swim on your merry way and little whale pops about the water he says i would become nature's preacher i would save all creatures if you would make me and then i would wail my pail of the loss of mighty you so man would think in an exit a conversation at the light the lights is all it a
wolf a wheel without repeal the sea is not a place the center such a place so i won't give you wings so you may sing the woeful song the last detail little winded way don't fumble freely and are giving wings like a pair of beautiful prayer at all out of sight when he did take flight into billy's of the morning light the pelicans go to the seagulls squalls in the albatross just plainly say what a sight to see a wheel take flight over the sea over the waves he slipped into the heavens he declined to sing a sow and i have the rise in music and the whole run of the week that's truly lovely i said you reverse diverse talent and you're a couple we had talent and i appreciate you sharing it was but it was with another direction i mean look at that illustration maybe the camera can come and just a little closer on occasion we may know that but that's just a riff
and you illustrate it has brought a sudden ah and among other things and the others i have a self portrait on page one nine another is i was just this girl said that the girls if they would just tell the world all used the water cooler the us our sister show on the reserve there's a town that man as the season so meat and ari as terrific hawk obligations must be delighted to have found you yes they are they're a wonderful group of people are in a constant pain who a ceo which he's one of these neil young lady is good looking nice i can't say that might be arrested let's just a very nice of us and my generation we see a pretty girl was a that's a pretty girl extremely shocked strongly shop it to the point where it's almost intimidating their intelligence
and their group who feels like to be equal with men they have to give up something it has a very very talented group and they spot mistakes they spot weaknesses they're willing to say look let's look at it in particular in a constant juices let's look at it where's it going cool we talking to what age level is this fitting into this is like you the marvelous words that she uses you're writing down it the other words don't go down the babble of children are not ignorant children are very smart and others how did you convince them me i didn't understand at the listings starters der that that will force we i can understand how you can personally you should write that you wrote it in that moment as well friend of my belabored david sapp a sting you know crippling he's a marvelous man isn't
it and he's a little involves an orchid my new low income dale he was a little involved and eight saw talk and do this do this do this so the girls ask me to write the book i said look i will write because i was threatening the right occasion but i come from an extensive ghost writing career which i will never do again would set off a lot so i tell him i would write a book if i had total freedom to just go out and i would compile it so i wrote the thing they took one look at it start laughing and hugging each other and that was the day just doing it and at a weak moment i was bribed let's interview these women have devising all the vice of in dc than to tie in fact there is no buyer and they all are masters that you noticed that are really masters of the disc look
author of the cajun gourmet as ben our guest on a word un were your hosts and then john sigg and go this program was produced in the studios of wbez in nashville are
- Series
- A Word on Words
- Episode Number
- 0915
- Episode
- Carlo Di Napoli
- Producing Organization
- Nashville Public Television
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- Nashville Public Television (Nashville, Tennessee)
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- Episode Description
- The Cajun Gourmet
- Date
- 1991-10-25
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- Talk Show
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- Literature
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- Moving Image
- Duration
- 00:29:35
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Nashville Public Television
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Duration: 28:46
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- Chicago: “A Word on Words; 0915; Carlo Di Napoli,” 1991-10-25, Nashville Public Television, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC, accessed July 16, 2025, http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-524-f47gq6s24k.
- MLA: “A Word on Words; 0915; Carlo Di Napoli.” 1991-10-25. Nashville Public Television, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Web. July 16, 2025. <http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-524-f47gq6s24k>.
- APA: A Word on Words; 0915; Carlo Di Napoli. Boston, MA: Nashville Public Television, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Retrieved from http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-524-f47gq6s24k