Los
Isleņos Cookbook 2 - Recipes from Spanish Louisiana.
Editors: Dorothy L. Benge and Laura M. Sullivan.
Remedies and Lost Secrets of the Isleņos
-by Cecile Jones
Robin, 2000 (c).
Los Isleņos Cookbook &
Remedies and Lost Secrets of St. Bernard's
Isleņos
Los Isleņos Cookbook was first
published in 1998. After the sale of all copies of the first
edition, Pelican Publishing Company published the second and
now third editions. the cookbook was featured in Sanver
Magazine in 2001 and also in Better Homes and Gardens Hometown
Cooking Magazine in 2002. The Isleņos and their cooking was
also featured on the "Well-seasoned Traveler in July, 2003.
The recipes in this book have come from
many states and from as far away as Nicaragua, Spain, and the
Canary Islands. They are, therefore, not all technically
Spanish recipes. those that are, can be found in the section
entitled Canary Islands and Spain. Others handed down
by Isleņos ancestors can be identified by names such as Caldo
and Paella and by reading the Spanish names and commentary of
the donors throughout the various sections of the book. There
are definite similarities between the Canarian and the Spanish
recipes and the recipes of the Isleņos descendants. Many of our
best Isleņos cooks were unable to provide written recipes when
first asked. After all, good cooking just comes naturally.
Excuses ran from, "I don't have any written recipes," to "I
never measure, " and "I just throw it all into the pot." In
those cases, we are deeply grateful to the "culinary
secretaries" who observed and recorded these recipes for
posterity.
The purpose of this book is two-fold:
Firstly, to acquaint the general public with the relatively
unknown Isleņos culture and secondly, to raise funds for
educational, historical and cultural improvements to the
Islenos Museum and Village. Both are located in St. Bernard
Parish, Louisiana, the home site of the Canary Islanders who
settled there beginning in 1778. To then, this book is
dedicated
--Dorothy L. Benge
Cost: $20.00 plus $3.95
for Priority Mail shipping.
Send check payable to:
Los Isleņos Heritage & Cultural Society
206 Decatur St.
New Orleans, LA 70130
(905)-524-1659
(504)-554-8412
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Remedies and Lost Secrets of St. Bernard's
Isleņos
This monograph is the fourth in an evolving series of
publications whose purpose is to interpret the history and
culture of the Canary Islander or Isleņos settlers of St.
Bernard Parish. this collection of home remedies, healing
prayers and rituals, and beliefs offers a wide range of
valuable information about Isleņos folk medicine, a topic that
has received little attention, until now.
Author Cecile Robin has been
a resident of St. Bernard Parish since she married into the
Isleņos community more than fifty years ago. an active member
of Los Isleņos Heritage and Cultural Society for many years,
she works part-time in
El Museo de los
Isleņos and demonstrates the use of home remedies each
year at the
Los Isleņos Fiesta.
A lifelong interest in home
remedies led Mrs. Robin to begin documenting Isleņos remedies
in 1973. This manuscript is the result of her many years of
research. It includes more than eighty home remedies drawn
from oral tradition and (in a few cases) printed sources. The
author also introduces readers to the tradition of "praying
on" illnesses by reciting prayers that were handed down from
one generation of folk healers to the next.
The volume was edited by
Carolyn E. Ware, who earned her doctorate in folklore and folk
life and has studied various healing traditions in Louisiana.
Her overview of folk medicine points out parallels between the
treatments in this book and those in other cultures.
--Dorothy L. Benge
Cost: $10.00 which
includes first class postage.
Send check payable to:
Los Isleņos Heritage & Cultural Society
206 Decatur St.
New Orleans, LA 70130
(905)-524-1659
(504)-554-8412
