How New Orleans Came To Make Red Beans And Rice A City-Wide Staple How We Eat
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Date: 2020-05-20
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Tito
This video is wrong on so many accounts. Red beans and rice is not a product of the African atlantic Coast, its a product of the Americas. Native Americans were eating red kidney beans before the Europeans or Africans arrived. They also had wild rice before the Africans arrived. Red beans and rice is found all over Latin America and its origins in New Orleans are from Latin America, possibly brought with the Spaniards, Haitians or Cubans, no one knows. Its all folklore. Also, the black woman said that the women usually washing the clothes were women of color. What did she think there were no middle class white women in New Orleans washing clothes? Not every white creole family in New Orleans was rich. Many were middle class even some were poorer. White Creoles (creole in Louisiana just means you descend from the colonial settlers of Louisiana, in this case these were whites of creole heritage) were responsible for dishes such as jambalaya and beignets, pralines, shrimp creole, etc everyone in New Orleans put in on the culture.
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This video is wrong on so many accounts. Red beans and rice is not a product of the African atlantic Coast, its a product of the Americas. Native Americans were eating red kidney beans before the Europeans or Africans arrived. They also had wild rice before the Africans arrived. Red beans and rice is found all over Latin America and its origins in New Orleans are from Latin America, possibly brought with the Spaniards, Haitians or Cubans, no one knows. Its all folklore. Also, the black woman said that the women usually washing the clothes were women of color. What did she think there were no middle class white women in New Orleans washing clothes? Not every white creole family in New Orleans was rich. Many were middle class even some were poorer. White Creoles (creole in Louisiana just means you descend from the colonial settlers of Louisiana, in this case these were whites of creole heritage) were responsible for dishes such as jambalaya and beignets, pralines, shrimp creole, etc everyone in New Orleans put in on the culture.
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chortlesinthecorner
Great video first and foremost. Preface the next part with the fact that I'm being a little nitpicky. I think you went a little far saying it's a product of the African Atlantic coast. The thing you left out was what about the red beans! Kidney beans originate from Peru. No doubt the slave trade has a huge hand in it, but so does colonization/exploring. A combo of tastes & direction coming from Africa, Europe, and South America literally mixing in the melting pot of New Orleans and it's North American borders. Would love to see what y'all could do with 22 mins with these topics!
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Great video first and foremost. Preface the next part with the fact that I'm being a little nitpicky. I think you went a little far saying it's a product of the African Atlantic coast. The thing you left out was what about the red beans! Kidney beans originate from Peru. No doubt the slave trade has a huge hand in it, but so does colonization/exploring. A combo of tastes & direction coming from Africa, Europe, and South America literally mixing in the melting pot of New Orleans and it's North American borders. Would love to see what y'all could do with 22 mins with these topics!
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Ty
Love the video, but one constructive criticism i would make is that the narrators pronunciation of New Orleans. I understand hes probably not from Louisiana, but just to help with the legitimacy of the video I think it would help to stop pronouncing the name with the hard e sound. No one in Louisiana says it New OrleensAgain, great video. Not trying to be a punk, just constructive criticism
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Love the video, but one constructive criticism i would make is that the narrators pronunciation of New Orleans. I understand hes probably not from Louisiana, but just to help with the legitimacy of the video I think it would help to stop pronouncing the name with the hard e sound. No one in Louisiana says it New OrleensAgain, great video. Not trying to be a punk, just constructive criticism
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Rights
It's a prime staple at Reunion Island too ( French oversea territory located near Madagascar )! Eaten with rice, a main dish ( as chicken, porc or even vegetable but more often meat ) and various little side spicy dish. As a kreol myself I'm still surprised to see they pour the meats and vegetable in the beans themselves instead of appart. It makes it a things of its own. Nice video.
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It's a prime staple at Reunion Island too ( French oversea territory located near Madagascar )! Eaten with rice, a main dish ( as chicken, porc or even vegetable but more often meat ) and various little side spicy dish. As a kreol myself I'm still surprised to see they pour the meats and vegetable in the beans themselves instead of appart. It makes it a things of its own. Nice video.
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TheChaoticLoser
ooooh, I love me some red beans and rice. its something I especially like as comfort food. I always have ingredients for it just laying around. its sad that I have no one to really share it with though. my family is weird, and I'm the only one with Cajun roots. everyone else thinks its just not that great, or maybe should be a side dish at best.
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ooooh, I love me some red beans and rice. its something I especially like as comfort food. I always have ingredients for it just laying around. its sad that I have no one to really share it with though. my family is weird, and I'm the only one with Cajun roots. everyone else thinks its just not that great, or maybe should be a side dish at best.
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Apollo
Ok i have a huge issue with the beginning of the video miseducating folks on who those north africans were - they were not berbers and arabs, they were black ppl, they were the BLACKAmoors.
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Ok i have a huge issue with the beginning of the video miseducating folks on who those north africans were - they were not berbers and arabs, they were black ppl, they were the BLACKAmoors.
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Amit
Nice episode on tracing the food heritage. However in flavour there is no comparison to our traditional Indian (Punjabi) recipe of Rajma Chawal (red kidney beans and rice.
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Nice episode on tracing the food heritage. However in flavour there is no comparison to our traditional Indian (Punjabi) recipe of Rajma Chawal (red kidney beans and rice.
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