That is true. I do like a lot of his food. It just is not cajun food, and what his influence popularized as cajun cuisine in America is a great disservice to a truly remarkable cuisine.
I think creole and cajun cuisine is pretty inclusive of a bunch of styles. There are probably 25 ways to make authentic red beans and rice. Cajun food just has to taste fabulous and send you to an early grave.
If a new food is created by a Cajun does that make it Cajun food? Blackened Jello anyone? That one was pure tirk. Note the elevated snark factor
At the height of the blackened redfish mania, there was a burger joint in Bunkie with a sign advertising blackened cheeseburgers. I got the fried chicken.
The worst result of the cajun food craze was the company that came out with Cajun Beer. It had pepper in it.
