Cooking Up a Cajun Restaurant Career

By Emily Kerr

As scores of students head toward specialized restaurant careers, restaurant schools are working to ensure that Hurricane Katrina didn't wash away New Orleans' long culinary history.

New Orleans' unique cuisine is as beloved as its music, language, architecture, and art. Restaurant schools continue to teach Cajun tricks of the trade to students interested in restaurant careers that continue New Orleans' dining tradition.

Anyone who has ever munched a fresh muffuletta sandwich on the cobbled streets of New Orleans' French Quarter has begun to understand the beauty of New Orleans' food. Once you taste a morsel of buttery blackened Redfish, you know the importance of culinary schools that cater to students who want restaurant careers in the field of Cajun cooking.

Restaurant Schools Teach Tradition

Whether you live in Boise or Brooklyn, you can begin a career that keeps Crescent City cuisine alive and well, by attending a restaurant school that teaches the traditions of New Orleans' popular eateries, such as.

The muffuletta sandwich: Served on a thick, small, round loaf of bread, New Orleans' signature sandwich overflows with ham, salami, and mortadella; mozzarella and provolone cheese; and, of course, a hefty layer of olive salad.
Gumbo: More a meal than a soup, gumbo is a concoction of rice, broth, and several types of meat (sausage, duck, chicken, pork), seafood (crab, shrimp), or greens. The meat, rice, and broth are cooked separately and combined in the end.
Oysters Rockefeller: This simple, classic Crescent City dish features fresh oysters broiled with bread crumbs, herbs, butter, and a dash of hot sauce.
Bananas Foster: Born in New Orleans, this dessert doubles as entertainment. Bananas, rum, brown sugar, butter and cinnamon are flamed up at your table and go down with delight.

Attend restaurant school to learn about all these dishes and more, and you can be on your way to a restaurant career that encompasses all the glorious cuisine that is New Orleans.

Source
The Gumbo Pages, http://www.thegumbopages.com/