One of the earliest was Paul Prudhomme, who in 1984 began the introduction of his influential cookbook, Paul Prodhomme's Louisiana Kitchen, by describing the over 200 year history of Creole and Cajun cooking ; he aims to " preserve and expand the Louisiana tradition.

** Louisiana Creole and Louisiana Creole cuisine.

Celery, onions, and bell peppers are the holy trinity of Louisiana Creole and Cajun cuisine.

Today descendants of the free people of color are generally called Louisiana Creole people.

Louisiana ( or ;, ; Louisiana Creole: Léta de la Lwizyàn ) is a state located in the southern region of the United States of America.

* In Southern Louisiana, there is Cajun and Creole cuisine.

Southern Louisiana developed significant culinary traditions: Louisiana Creole cuisine in southeastern Louisiana centered on New Orleans and Cajun cuisine in central to Acadiana in southwestern Louisiana.

In Louisiana Creole cuisine, there is a tomato sauce known as a Creole sauce.

* March 7 – Jacques Villeré, first Creole governor of Louisiana ( b. 1761 )

Morton was born into a Creole of Color community in the Faubourg Marigny neighborhood of downtown New Orleans, Louisiana.

Bread pudding is a bread-based dessert popular in many countries ' cuisine, including that of Ireland, Great Britain, France, Belgium, Puerto Rico, Mexico, Malta, Argentina, Louisiana Creole, and the southern United States.

Locally, prawns and shrimp are often deep fried ; in the Cajun and Creole kitchens of Louisiana, shrimp and prawns are a common addition to traditional recipes like jambalaya and certain stews.

Outside Louisiana, and even within, some food writers wish to distinguish between Cajun and Louisiana Creole cuisine, maintaining that Creole dishes tend to be more sophisticated and continental while Cajun food is rural, more seasoned, sometimes spicy, and tends to be heartier.

Meanwhile, also in the summer of 1866, a riot broke out in New Orleans when radicals, with strong opposition from conservatives, sought to re-convene the Louisiana Convention of 1864.

* French arpent — also used in Louisiana as length and area unit of measure

In addition to managing JPL, Caltech also operates the Palomar Observatory in San Diego County, the Owens Valley Radio Observatory in Bishop, California, the Submillimeter Observatory and W. M. Keck Observatory at the Mauna Kea Observatory, the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory at Livingston, Louisiana and Richland, Washington, and Kerckhoff Marine Laboratory in Corona del Mar, California.

* French group, under which they also included the countries that codified their law either in 19th or in the first half of the 20th century, using the Napoleonic code civil of year 1804 as a model ; this includes countries and jurisdictions such as Italy, Portugal, Spain, Louisiana, states of South America ( such as Brazil ), Quebec, Santa Lucia, Romania, the Ionian Islands, Egypt, and Lebanon

A hogshead was also used as unit of measurement for sugar in Louisiana for most of the 19th century.

The Knights were also responsible for race riots that resulted in the deaths of about 28 Chinese Americans in the Rock Springs massacre in Wyoming, and an estimated 50 African-American sugar-cane laborers in the 1887 Thibodaux massacre in Louisiana.

Jefferson also placed special importance on declaring U. S. sovereignty over the Native Americans along the Missouri River, and getting an accurate sense of the resources in the recently completed Louisiana Purchase.

This was particularly true of the area of the present-day state of Louisiana, which also contained a large number of free people of color.

Salt domes are also found in Louisiana.

The Cajuns of Louisiana also believed in a similar creature with the variant name of Rougarou.

Similarly, virtually all members of LAMP have also resigned from the Louisiana Psychological Association ( LPA ) after many LPA members asserted that the LAMP's prescriptive authority movement secretly came to an agreement with Louisiana's medical board to transfer the practice of psychology for psychologists with prescriptive authority to the medical board.

First the brainchild of local sports entrepreneur Dave Dixon, who also founded the Louisiana Superdome and the USFL, the Saints were actually secretly born in a backroom deal brought about by Congressman Hale Boggs, Senator Russell Long and NFL Commissioner Pete Rozelle.

Many of these are blends using staple ingredients of variously cured Burley and Virginia tobaccos which are enhanced by spice tobaccos, among them many Oriental or Balkan varietals, Latakia ( a fire-cured spice tobacco of Syrian origin ), Perique ( uniquely grown in St. James Parish, Louisiana ) which is also an old method of fermentation, or blends of Virginia and Burley tobaccos of African, Indian, or South American origins.

The E-4 aircraft were originally stationed at Andrews AFB, Maryland so they could be easily accessed by the President and the Secretary of Defense, with SAC also establishing three dispersed support squadrons for the E-4 at Westover AFB, Massachusetts, Barksdale AFB, Louisiana and March AFB, California.

Louisiana is also a large supplier of hot sauces with its peppers, as well as being the largest supplier of crawfish in the country.

Ross has also worked with John Lee Hooker, Lightnin ' Hopkins, Brownie McGhee, Memphis Slim, Sunnyland Slim, Otis Rush, Dr. John, Bobby Lewis, Pinetop Perkins, Charles Neville, Cyril Neville, Big Mama Thornton, Louisiana Red, J. B. Hutto, Eddie Kirkland, Floyd Jones, Homesick James, and many other blues greats.

There is speculation that one of the possible scenarios Houston envisioned was to actually lead his Texan army into Louisiana ( U. S. territory ), whereupon an invading Mexican army could be attacked not only by the retreating Texan army but also by American forces summoned from garrisons in New Orleans.

Spain, which traded Florida to Britain to regain Cuba, also gained Louisiana, including New Orleans, from France in compensation for its losses.

He also earned a master's degree from Louisiana State University in 1940, serving as an assistant instructor of political science there.

( Sandy soil is also common in southern Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama, and in western and southern Florida.

Many fast food operations have more local and regional roots, such as White Castle in the Midwest United States, along with Hardee's ( owned by CKE Restaurants, which also owns Carl's Jr., whose locations are primarily on the United States West Coast ); Krystal, Bojangles ' Famous Chicken ' n Biscuits, Cook Out, and Zaxby's restaurants in the American Southeast ; Raising Cane's in Louisiana ; Hot ' n Now in Michigan and Wisconsin ; In-N-Out Burger ( in California, Arizona, Nevada, Utah, and Texas ) and Original Tommy's chains in Southern California ; Dick's Drive-In in Seattle, Washington and Arctic Circle in Utah and other western states ; Halo Burger around Flint, Michigan and Burgerville in the Portland, Oregon area.

They also disrupted political organizing and terrorized blacks to bar them from the polls in Louisiana, Mississippi, North and South Carolina.

In Louisiana and former French territories, a formalized system of concubinage called plaçage developed.

In South Louisiana this practice is called Pocking Eggs and is slightly different.

By 1938, an estimated 20 individuals remained in the wild, some 6-8 of which were located in the old-growth forest called the Singer Tract in Louisiana, where logging rights were held by the Chicago Mill and Lumber Company.

A traditional mancala game called Warra was still played in Louisiana in the early 20th century.

Elected president in what Jefferson called the Revolution of 1800, he oversaw the purchase of the vast Louisiana Territory from France ( 1803 ), and sent the Lewis and Clark Expedition ( 1804 – 1806 ) to explore the new west.

* February 27 – The annual Mardi Gras celebration in New Orleans, Louisiana is canceled due to a strike called by the New Orleans Police Department.

Louisiana has entities equivalent to counties called parishes.

In January 2011, Louisiana Tech and Murphy USA announced a partnership called " MurphyUSA @ LaTech " with the first classes scheduled to start in the 2011 Summer Quarter.

The site of a county's administration, and often the county courthouse, is called the county seat (" parish seat " or " borough seat " in Louisiana or Alaska ).

Many Louisiana Creole families arrived in Louisiana from Saint Domingue, later called Haiti, during the Colonial Period following the Slave Uprising led by Toussaint Breda ( later called L ' Overture ) in 1791.

Loggy Bayou is a swamp in Drew County, not to be confused with a bayou in northwestern Louisiana, also called Loggy Bayou.

Many Louisiana Creole people arrived in Louisiana following the Slave Uprising led by Toussaint Breda ( later called L ' Overture ) in 1791 in Ste.

In 1785, Juan Filhiol established the first European outpost in Louisiana, called Fort Miro, which became a city in 1805.

He also retaliated against those who voted against him and used patronage and state funding ( especially highways ) to maneuver Louisiana toward what opponents called a Long " dictatorship ".

Edgar Hull, a founding faculty member of the Medical Center of Louisiana at New Orleans, was among those called upon to treat Long for his wounds.

For the next 12 years, he was in charge of what the Engineer Department called " the Mississippi and Lake defenses in Louisiana.

The New Orleans Regional Transit Authority ( RTA or NORTA as it is called by some residents ) is a body established by the Louisiana State Legislature in 1979 ; since 1983 it has controlled bus and streetcar service in the City of New Orleans.