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 ...

A few weeks ago we wrote about Hungarian paprika, and a reader left a question: “Where can I find gurkha also known as blood sausage? I live in Phoenix area.” Blood sausage is purchased precooked, ...

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 ...

The natural habitat for boudin is Cajun country, and across its range, you find the delicious pork and rice sausage everywhere from butcher shops to bait shops. But for a long time, where you didn't ...