Talk:Creole Cuisine/@comment-741956-20110904054500

In discussing Louisiana Creole cuisine, it is important to distinguish it from Haitian Creole Cuisine. Cajun Cuisine is also distinct from historical Louisiana Creole Cuisine. Cajuns alone came to Louisiana by way of Canada; their culture was mostly rural until the 20th Century. Louisiana Creoles were mostly an urban population, centering in New Orleans, Natchitoches, and in the region from Baton Rouge to New Orleans along River Road.

The Haitian Revolution (1791–1804) was a period of conflict in the French colony of Saint-Domingue, which culminated in the elimination of slavery there and the founding of the Haitian republic. In the early 19th century, thousands of Haitian refugees, including free people of color and white planters, of whom some in both categories owned slaves which they brought with them, settled in New Orleans, adding many new members to both its French-speaking mixed-race population and African population.