Trendy dishes often cause a wave of attention and sometimes even mania (cronuts, anyone?), but only one comes to mind for needing to involve the Federal government: chef Paul Prudhomme's blackened ...

NEW ORLEANS -- At his New Orleans restaurant, legendary chef Paul Prudhomme proudly showed off dishes and ingredients from his upbringing in Louisiana's rural Cajun country: blackened redfish, ...

New Orleans Chef Paul Prudhomme invented blackened redfish in the late 1970s. Prudhomme’s fish turned out to be so popular that, for a time, redfish were overfished, with a rumor that it could lead to ...

Did you ever get to try blackened redfish at K-Paul’s Louisiana Kitchen back in the day? It was a dish created by the late, great Paul Prudhomme that became emblematic of Louisiana cooking for a ...

Cajun used to mean exotic. Twenty-five years ago, before Chef Paul Prudhomme foisted his blackened redfish on gustatory history–giving lesser cooks license to char stuff to an ebony crisp and call it ...

Paul Prudhomme, the Opelousas native who popularized Cajun cuisine in the 1980s, has died at 75 after a brief illness resulting from an infection, WWL-TV reported this morning. A worker at his ...