Cajun Food

Acadians (‘Cajuns’) are descended from the French settlers of 17th century Nova Scotia, a colony they named Acadia, from akade, the Micmac Indian word for ‘plenty’. When they were driven off their land and into exile in the Grand Déangement of 1755, some went back to France and some to the French Caribbean islands, but others arrived in the French colony of Louisiana just as it was being handed over to Spain in 1766.