Cajun

In culinary terms, this means the spicy cooking style developed in Louisiana. The Cajun people emigrated to Nova Scotia from South-Western France and their colony was called Acadia. Driven out by the British, many of them moved to the largely French settlement of Louisiana, where they became known as Cajuns, developing a spicy cooking style which bears the same name. It is often confused with the other cooking style of the region, Creole.