Ma Louisianne - PBS series - Big Easy Gumbo Party - 9/12

Party details below, a moment to learn about the project. One of the producers is Gaylon Emerzian, who is behind Spatulatta.com, a children's web culinary series and "On the Wedge," on artisinal Wisconsin cheese documentary. The other producer is her husband, Roger Stewart Brown.

Trillium Productions invites you to watch the progress of our 6-part series for Louisiana Public Broadcasting – Ma Louisianne.

Each episode of Ma Louisianne is a waders-in-the-back road trip through another part of southern Louisiana to look at the traditions surrounding gathering and growing food. We’ll take you duck hunting, fishing, oystering, to participate in a boucherie, and to explore the cornucopia of vegetables coming off the land.

The series employs food as a way to talk about the culture and environment of southern Louisiana. We use the two cuisines, Cajun and Creole, to understand how and why these parallel cultures evolved.

We’re kicking off the production in November with the duck hunt episode. We’ll head out to a duck camp on Avery Island. Along the way, we’ll explore the slurry of land and water that makes up the bayou and the traditions of the people living there.

Shot in a naturalistic style, you’ll experience the power and beauty of the fragile environment and the strength and resilience of the folks who call Louisiana home.

In addition, we are working with Liz Williams of the Southern Food and Beverage Museum in New Orleans to put together a traveling exhibition that focuses on the Louisiana people who work daily to provide our tables with wild and cultivated food.

The exhibition features intimate portraits of oystermen, fishermen and farmers, surrounded by landscapes and beautiful food photography. Objects unique to each trade are displayed in accompanying cases.

If you don’t live in Louisiana, don’t worry, all this wonderfulness will find you. Louisiana Public Broadcasting will be presenting the series to the PBS system and the exhibition will make its way around the country.

The Ma Louisianne Big Easy Gumbo Party is just around the corner on September 12, 2009 at the home of one of our board members in Highland Park, IL. The party is a benefit for the documentary, Ma Louisianne about the terrior of southern Louisiana and the roots of the Creole and Cajun cuisine.

If you’d like to attend the fundraiser, give us a call at 847-864-3553 or send a comment and we’ll forward an invitation.

Festivities start at 7 PM. We’ll crank up the Zydeco music and pass around some beads. The tables will be spread with red checkered cloths and weather permitting the crowd will spill out into the garden.

Big pots of 4 kinds gumbo will be bubbling on the stove and we’ll be serving it up with crusty bread on compostable dinnerware provided by Ultra Green. Your choice of Sazerac cocktails, Abita beer or Abita root beer and dessert are included in the $50 donation.
Jimmy Bannos from Heaven on Seven, here in Chicago, has been kind enough to let us purchase our ingredients through him at cost. When I told him I was working on a vegetarian gumbo, Jimmy said, “Why not do gumbo z’herbes?”

Gumbo z’herbes (pronounced gumbo zav) has a wealth of greens and is usually served as a Lenten dish in New Orleans. Jimmy rattled off a vegan version from memory. So our menu is shaping up like this:

· Chicken and Chicken Sausage Gumbo – no pork
· Shrimp and Andouille Gumbo – shell fish and pork sausage, so totally treif!
· Orka Gumbo with Roasted Corn and Cashews – contains tree nuts
· Gumbo Z’herbes – Jimmy’s Vegan Version
· Bread Pudding with Bourbon Sauce – contains dairy and eggs
· Sazerac Cocktails and Abita beer and root beer to wash it down.

We only have enough room for 150 revelers, so get on the invite list now!

i would like to go but not a good for me . will you have some pic s ?& will there be another one

Hi,

I copied this information from an invite e-mail. I suggest contacting the phone number mentioned in the invite.

Regards,