1990 Directed by Les Blank, Maureen Gosling
Les Blank marries his passion for spicy, down home food and his love for Cajuns and Creoles in this mouth-watering, exploration of the cooking, and other enthusiasms, of French-speaking Louisiana. Features tangy music, and food by Marc Savoy, Paul Prudhomme, and other greats.
Les Blank’s Cannibal Holocaust.
My favorite part is when the dude is holding the giant cow tongue and says “I wisht de whole heifah wad made outta tuung” in that half French, half Southern creole accent. Then he starts talking about how you have to cook the tongue while it’s still warm - straight from the heifer’s mouth - because it’s easier to peel that way. “You can peeel it like a banana.” All the food was so mouth watering. I gotta learn how to make some etouffee and get a whole mess of crawdads. I see a lot of crawdads at work and my kids once had a pet crawdad named Buford (they called him “Beefert”). I would always…
I've spent surprisingly little time in Louisiana despite being from Northwest Florida. We had a lot of the same ingredients in Southern staples (though often fried, like okra) but an embarrassing lack of Cajun food. I didn't have decent gumbo until five years ago when I made it myself after watching "Always For Pleasure". Not to say it could compare to the ancient divination you see in these films, but compared to the swamp diarrhea Florida restaurants call Gumbo, it was magic in my mouth.
Watching food in this way is nothing short of thrilling. No filmmaker has a talent for immersing themselves into the culture quite like Les Blank. The heat and aromas transcend the film medium and bring it to your home. Food passion at it's hottest.
(hits the gumbo) sometime i wish the..whole cow was made outta tongue.....
all yall rating this 5 stars not get pbs growing up? its good but cmon
I immediately went to the fridge and drank some Tabasco sauce to satisfy the craving this short brought upon me.
"When you love something, you...you leave it alone."
The sound when that frog gets its skin pulled off, my word.
Today I made some hamburgers with ketchup and mustard. I also ate a bag of Lay's potato chips and some Oreos.
I never would have guessed that this movie was made in 1990. Louisiana in 1990 looks like Louisiana in 1970, and I'd like to think it always has and always will look like this. The bayou is 800 speed Kodak forever.
Crawfish are sea bugs...
Black pepper, red pepper, and salt...
Slow cook right on the beach with driftwood in your cast iron...
Tongue never looked so good.
Les Blank has that eye.
highly recommend waking up and immediately pressing play on a les blank joint, just feeling inspired to throw a bunch of stuff in a pot and cook it and eat it
Another excellent food documentary by Les Blank. This time Blank goes to Louisiana and explores Cajun food. Film had such a fun and celebratory nature to it. I am really enjoying Blank's non-narrative structure style. His films move to their own rhythm rather than a traditional three act structure. Some of the food looked so good in this. However, Cajuns eat some crazy shit. When the dude ripped the skin right off the frog my jaw dropped, that was wild. I have a feeling I'm going to go on a Les Blank binge the next few weeks. So many of his documentaries look really fascinating.
