Discover True Cajun Cuisine with Melissa Martin’s Shrimp Spaghetti

Forget everything you think you know about Cajun food.

In New Orleans’ buzziest tourist areas, the word is flaunted on virtually every corner, meant to evoke local, authentic dining. It’s often wrongly synonymous with Creole or associated with heavy, spicy dishes and blackened fish. According to chef Melissa Martin, this style of cuisine has very little resemblance to the Cajun food she grew up eating in Chauvin, La., a town southwest of the city. Read full food and drink article here.