When visiting the backwoods of Louisiana’s Cajun country, either hiking through a state park or just visiting a friend or family’s old homestead, you may find yourself in front of a grizzled oak tree ...

Q: Is blood sausage really made of blood? Where can I find some? A: Yup. It’s blood, all right. Pig’s blood, to be exact. To some, the idea of eating coagulated blood of swine sounds revolting – after ...

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The English have blood pudding, the French have boudin noir, the Germans have blutwurst, the Spanish have morcilla. Sausage containing blood is an old and nearly universal foodstuff, part of the ...

What it is: Blood sausage, popular in many European countries, is made by cooking pork or beef blood with fillers (often meat, suet or another fat, barley, oatmeal and/or bread) until it congeals and ...

Boudin has as many recipes as there are cooks in Louisiana, but one city claims to have the best of all: Scott. Home to the annual Boudin Festival, which ends on Sunday, Scott holds the title of the ...

If you take boudin out of Cajun and Creole country, is it still boudin? It’s a question worth asking because, in recent years, boudin has become a cause célèbre among Texas pitmasters and sausage ...