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Easy
By Alastair Little and Richard Whittington
Published 1998
Dirty rice is a Cajun dish, Cajuns being the Acadian French who moved to the bayous of Louisiana from Nova Scotia in the 1750s. Cajun cooking is characteristically spicy, uniquely uses sassafras powder (filé) and emphasizes long-cooked roux for flavouring as well as thickening stews. When Robichoux isn’t shooting bad guys he’s boiling crawfish or fixing gumbo, and is indeed partial to a mess of dirty rice.