Project Food Blog Challenge: Ready, Set, Blog! What makes the Cajun Chef Ryan blog unique, what sets it apart from other food blogs?

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After a quick data search on the statistics for top posts and pages the “All Time” summary results with the following list. These posts are listed in descending order of visits, with Hot Roast Beef Po-Boy leading the pack at 2,096 and rounding out the top 20 with Mirepoix and the Holy Trinity with 422 total visits at the bottom.

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It’s early in the morning and just near freezing temperatures on this crisp Wednesday, January 31, 1979. Just after 6:45 am and the Southern Railroad’s Crescent locomotives have started pulling the passenger train out of the New Orleans Union Passenger Terminal (NOUPT) station platform for its last run. Travelers are getting settled into their coach seats for the exciting 26 hour farewell pull to Washington, DC. This is the last passenger train operated by a private company, the Southern Railroad held onto its prestigious and popular Crescent for over eight years and now this is the swan song run before giving control over to Amtrak on Thursday, February 1, 1979.

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I listen to NPR on the way to work every morning and also in the afternoon drive home and each week they have a segment known as “Hidden Kitchens” by the Kitchen Sisters. The sisters are Nikki Silva & Davia Nelson, and are porduced in collaboration with Laura Folger, Nathan Dalton, and interns, Alessandra Wollner and Eloise Melzer and the segments are mixed by Jim McKee.

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My professional culinary experience range includes working in the kitchens of major and minor hotels, 5 star restaurants, a private law firm dining room, a catering company, a health food restaurant, a franchise chain themed Cajun restaurant and a Mexican restaurant, health clubs, country clubs, hospitals, and my own restaurant Boudreaux’s.

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