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.

Particularly influential in the development of distributist theory were Catholic authors G. K. Chesterton and Hilaire Belloc, two of distributism's earliest and strongest proponents.

The late direct Capetian kings were considerably more powerful and influential than the earliest ones.

Though Chrétien ’ s account is the earliest and most influential of all Grail texts, it was in the work of Robert de Boron that the Grail truly became the " Holy Grail " and assumed the form most familiar to modern readers.

An influential form of individualist anarchism, called " egoism ," or egoist anarchism, was expounded by one of the earliest and best-known proponents of individualist anarchism, the German Max Stirner.

In Hip-Hop's Golden Age, Marley Marl was the house producer of the Juice Crew, known for The Bridge Wars, a feud with Boogie Down Productions seen as one of the earliest and most influential hip hop beefs.

The earliest attested Christian interpretation of the Song is found in an influential commentary by Hippolytus.

His most influential Viagens novel was the non-Krishna work Rogue Queen, a tale of a hive society undermined by interstellar contact, which was one of the earliest science fiction novels to deal with sexual themes.

Around 1893, Ravel created his earliest compositions, and he was introduced by his father to the café pianist Erik Satie, whose distinctive personality and unorthodox musical experiments proved influential.

The earliest and most influential of these, The Chap-Book ( 1894 – 98 ), which featured a story about Pierrot by the aesthete Percival Pollard in its second number, was soon host to Beardsley-inspired Pierrots drawn by E. B.

One of the earliest and most influential French radio plays was the prize-winning " Marémoto " (" Seaquake "), by Gabriel Germinet and Pierre Cusy, which presents a realistic account of a sinking ship before revealing that the characters are actually actors rehearsing for a broadcast.

Artwork based on Sheridan le Fanu's Carmilla, one of the earliest influential works of vampire literature. Vampire literature covers the spectrum of literary work concerned principally with the subject of vampires.

The earliest cinematic version was a short, filmed in 1908 by the legendary and influential magician-cum-director, Georges Méliès.

The Kinks ' early recordings of 1964 ranged from covers of R & B standards like " Long Tall Sally " and " Got Love If You Want It "; to the chiming, melodic beat music of Ray Davies ' earliest original compositions for the band, " You Still Want Me " and " Something Better Beginning "; to the more influential proto-metal, protopunk, power chord-based hard rock of the band's first two hit singles, " You Really Got Me " and " All Day and All of the Night ".

The Orioles were a successful and influential American R & B group of the late 1940s and early 1950s, one of the earliest such vocal bands who established the basic pattern for the doo-wop sound.

Some of the earliest and most influential were Big Maceo Merriweather and, later, Sunnyland Slim.

One of the earliest influential dynasties was the House of Jiménez which united much of Christian Iberia under its leadership in the 11th century.

The work concerns the structure of society and legitimate government, and is regarded as one of the earliest and most influential examples of social contract theory.

Considered one of the earliest and most influential speech pathologists in the field, he spent most of his life trying to find the cause and cure for stuttering -- through teaching, research, scholarly and other writing, lecturing, supervision of graduate students, and persuading K-12 schools, the Veterans Administration and other institutions of the need for speech pathologists.

Probably the earliest and most influential allegory is the Psychomachia ( Battle of Souls ) by Aurelius Clemens Prudentius.

Drais ' most influential invention was the Laufmaschine, or velocipede, the earliest form of a bicycle, yet without pedals.

As a historian, Kogălniceanu notably introduced several more or less influential Romantic nationalist theses: after 1840, he was noted for stressing the image of the 17th-century Wallachian Prince Michael the Brave as a unifier of Romania, although this view had not been at all present in his earlier essays ; he proposed that the Romanian folk was among the first European peoples to record history in their national language, although the earliest Romanian-language chronicles date back to the 17th century ; additionally, he argued that the Second Bulgarian Empire was a Romanian state.

One of the earliest and most influential UK house and techno record labels was Network Records ( otherwise known as Kool Kat records ) who helped introduce Italian and U. S. dance music to Britain as well as promoting select UK dance music acts.

Perhaps the earliest popularizer of Breton guitar was Dan Ar Braz, who continues to be an influential figure in a somewhat jazzy, easy-listening vein.

This was the earliest and perhaps most influential Occitan lyric treatise.

Jelly Roll Morton is considered the earliest jazz arranger, writing down the parts when he was touring about 1912-1915 so that pick-up bands could play his compositions.

The earliest evidence of human activity in Jersey dates to about 250, 000 years ago ( before Jersey became an island ) when bands of nomadic hunters used the caves at La Cotte de St Brelade as a base for hunting mammoth.

Among the earliest hardcore bands, regarded as having made the first recordings in the style, were Southern California's Middle Class and Black Flag.

With loud walls of sound, where individual instruments and even vocals were often indistinguishable, they followed the lead of noise pop and dream pop bands like My Bloody Valentine ( often considered as the earliest shoegaze act ), The Jesus and Mary Chain, and the Cocteau Twins.

Traditionally, the Cusseta and Coweta bands are considered the earliest members of the Muscogee Nation.

This instrumentation originated in rural dance bands and is the basis on which the earliest bluegrass bands were formed.

Although a more recent phenomenon, progressive bluegrass has roots going back to one of the earliest bluegrass bands.

The earliest tires were bands of iron ( later steel ), placed on wooden wheels, used on carts and wagons.

It was one of the earliest recognized brass bands on the New Orleans jazz scene

Traditionally the Cusseta and Coweta bands are considered the earliest members of the Creek Nation.

The earliest known residents of the western Salt Lake Valley were Native American bands of the Ute and Shoshoni tribes.

The earliest jazz bands adopted much of the vocabulary of the blues, including bent and blue notes and instrumental " growls " and smears otherwise not used on European instruments.

By the release of Dreamy in 1991, Beat Happening was one of the most popular bands in the indie rock community, leading to their pivotal role in the International Pop Underground Festival, which brought anti-corporate rock its earliest mainstream acceptance.

Some of the earliest bands to use pyrotechnics were The Who, Pink Floyd, KISS and Queen, even Michael Jackson attempted using pyrotechnics in a 1984 Pepsi advertisement, where a stray spark caused a small fire in his hair.

However, the earliest skate punk bands had a more raw sound which generally became more melodic over time.

The earliest bands included Green River and Soundgarden, among others, most signed to legendary indie rock label Sub Pop.

As home to the Lovin ' Spoonful, one of the earliest folk rock bands to find international success, the group thought the label would be the ideal home for their music.

The earliest alternative rock bands in Massachusetts hailed from Boston and included Salem 66, Volcano Suns and Mission of Burma.

New Bomb Turks and Gaunt hail from Columbus, Ohio and one of Columbus ' earliest punk bands, forming in 1978, was Screaming Urge.

In its earliest days the Grand Ole Opry featured banjo players, fiddle players, and string bands from Middle Tennessee such as Uncle Dave Macon, Fiddlin ' Arthur Smith, the McGee Brothers, Humphrey Bate and his Possum Hunters, the Gully Jumpers, the Fruit Jar Drinkers, and The Crook Brothers String Band.

Among the earliest all-female rock bands to be signed to a record label were Goldie & the Gingerbreads, to Atlantic Records in 1964, The Pleasure Seekers with Suzi Quatro to Hideout Records in 1964 and Mercury Records in 1968, The Feminine Complex to Athena Records in 1968, and Fanny ( who pioneered the all-female band sound in the early to mid 1970s ) in 1969 when Mo Ostin signed them to Warner Bros. Records.

During this time, he met African American queer political performance artist Vaginal Davis and the two formed the band Pedro, Muriel and Esther, also known as PME, one of the earliest queer punk bands to emerge.

The Robins were a successful and influential American R & B group of the late 1940s and 1950s, one of the earliest such vocal bands who established the basic pattern for the doo-wop sound.