Cooking: Audio-Visual
Introduction
This page highlights audio-visual or audio materials at Hill Memorial Library concerned with cooking, such as cooking demonstrations and interviews. Researchers interested in more of these materials should consider using cooking subject headings and filtering results by "type," selecting "audio-visual."
Example subject headings include:
- Cooking, American
- Cooks -- Louisiana -- Interviews
- Cooking, Cajun
- Cooking, Creole
Video Casettes
- Yum, yum, yum [videorecording] : a taste of the Cajun and Creole cooking of Louisiana byCall Number: VCAS 70Publication Date: 1990An introduction to the Cajun and Creole cooking of Lousiana.
- A common pot [videorecording] : Creole cooking on Cane River byCall Number: VCAS 953Publication Date: 2003A film by Kevin McCaffrey & Neil Armstrong; edited by Lenny Delbert. Discusses the meaning and evolution of Creole cooking in Northwest Louisiana. Discusses the variations in cooking in the area.
- Gumbo [videorecording] : the mysteries of Creole and Cajun cooking byCall Number: VCAS 49Publication Date: 1978Food--one of Louisiana's favorite pastimes! A look at several people who like to cook, and eat Louisiana style and their views on what Louisiana cooking is all about
- Vivre pour manger [videorecording] = Live to eat byCall Number: VCAS 66Publication Date: 1990-1999Gives a glimpse of the Cajun lifestyle and demonstrates Cajun cooking.
- Going places: New Orleans byCall Number: VCAS 465Publication Date: 1997Tours New Orleans' most popular retaurants to discuss the difference between Cajun and Creole cooking. Shows a jazz funeral, the fun on Bourbon Street and the beauties of the Garden District. Accompanies "Alligator Annie" on an alligator hunt in southern Louisiana's swamps.
Oral Histories
- Louis Comeaux Oral History InterviewCall Number: L:4700.0744Publication Date: 1993The interview records recollections of Comeaux's childhood as the son of a cane farmer. He recalls his work in an Avery Island salt mine; farming as a sharecropper; the routine of sugarcane planting and harvest; cane syrup production; farm labor; early transportation; traditional Cajun foods including couche-couche and cracklins; the boucherie; and social conditions in Four Corners.
- Betty Hines Oral History InterviewCall Number: L:4700.0285Publication Date: 1993The interview records Hines' memories of childhood as the daughter of a sharecropper; sugarcane growing; the recollections of her great-grandparents' enslavement; difficulties of her early life after her mother's death and the abandonment of the family by her father; work with foster children; birth customs, and traditional foods.