You Always Return: Searching for Viet-Cajun in New Orleans, Part I

from Points South · host Andrea Nguyen, Christian Adam Brown

In this episode, cookbook author, chef, and teacher Andrea Nguyen travels to New Orleans with producer Christian Brown to find the origins of Viet-Cajun food, a popular fusion that has been appearing at restaurants all over the US. Join Andrea and Christian as they visit several Vietnamese American restaurateurs to learn about how they envision their own identities within the vibrant food culture of New Orleans.Visit oxfordamerican.org/pointssouth to see Tet New Orleans, a beautiful new short film by Marion Hill. It follows chef Nini Nguyễn as she prepares a traditional feast for the Lunar New Year. This episode was produced by Sara A. Lewis, Christian Brown, and Andrea Nguyen. Original music by Dylan Trân. Thank you to Nga Le and Chi Nguyen, Karl Takacs Jr, and Anh Lu. Thanks to Dr. David Berris. Our podcast intern is Adam Forrester. Post-production and score thanks to Curtis Fye and Trey Pollard of Spacebomb.This episode is supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Julia Child Foundation for Gastronomy and the Culinary Arts.

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Cookbook author and chef Andrea Nguyen and producer Christian Brown travel to New Orleans to find the origins of Viet-Cajun food.

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