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While searching high and low for a true Cajun restaurant outside of Louisiana (and online!), two Cajuns (Chrissy LeMaire and Brandon Abshire) found that most Americans thought that Cajun food consisted of only red pepper and paprika.
Chrissy and Brandon's vision is to give Cajuns back their good name and to spread the essence of Real Cajun Cooking and Culture to the rest of the world.
RealCajunRecipes.com moderates all recipe submissions and recipes are added only after our mothers, aunts and great aunt's have given their seal of approval.
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Brandon Abshire
Brandon, son of Carl and Carrie Abshire, is a 1998 graduate of Kaplan High School in Kaplan, Louisiana. After spending a few years in the Computer Science program at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, he moved to San Diego in 2000 and has
been living in America's Finest City ever since. Brandon is the creator of the mighty fine RealCajunRecipes mascot, Alphonse. In addition
to his drawing talents, Brandon also uses his web and database skills working for the Enterprise Services division at Qualcomm Inc. In his spare time, Brandon enjoys researching emerging technologies, especially in the area of consumer electronics, watching "The Universe" on the History Channel, "How It's Made" on the Discovery Channel, and "The Family Guy" on any channel he can get it on.
Brandon also likes to do his part to educate family, friends and others about current events in government and society, and to encourage awareness of Global Warming and the importance of Biofuel research and investment in all types of alternative energy. Brandon believes that Americans have an obligation to future generations to become self-sufficient in the production of renewable energy, which will provide a healthier, cleaner and more prosperous tomorrow.
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Chrissy LeMaire
Chrissy, born and raised in Kaplan, LA graduated from Kaplan High School in 1996. A year later, she moved to San Diego, California to attend college. After moving to the other LA - Los Angeles for a couple years, she has now settled down in beautiful San Francisco (ding ding!). In addition to working as a full time database administrator and programmer at Luce Forward, Chrissy likes spending time snowboarding in Tahoe, stalking tech companies in Silicon Valley, chillin in Vegas and working with charities such as the GLAAD and Project Angelfood. She is currently attending the University of San Francisco to finish her degree in Information Systems. Her dream is to open a Cajun restaurant in San Francisco on RealCajunRecipes.com's tenth-year anniversary.
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Ruby Buchanan
Ruby has personally typed in over 99% of recipes you see here on RealCajunRecipes.com! She was born in Erath, Louisiana and moved to Kaplan, Louisiana when she was 21.
She is the mother of 3 children and spends each year living in Crowley, Louisiana and Phoenix, Arizona.
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| Other Contributors
Ann Ngo - Ann, a student at UCSD, designed our prized logo. We love it much and have agreed to cook many months worth of Cajun food for Ann as payment for her work.
Simpli.biz - They have great prices and awesome communication skills. If you need to colocate in the Bay Area, this is the place to go!
Our Mommas and Grand-Mommas - Thanks much for entering tons of recipes and critiquing the site. Oh, and thanks for the nummy cooking all those years :D
Ms. Bert and Ms. Brenda Richard - Thanks so much for all of your hard work getting people to the site and submitting all of your recipes. We really appreciate it.
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