Who''s Your Mama, Are You Catholic, and Can You Make A Roux?

About Marcelle Bienvenu

MARCELLE BIENVENU is a cookbook author and food writer who has been preparing Cajun and Creole dishes since the 1960s. Marcelle has written on Creole/ Cajun Cooking for The Times Picayune Time-Life Books and has been featured in Food & Wine Saveur Southern Living Redbook The New York Times Louisiana Life and Acadiana Profile. Bienvenu authored: Who's Your Mama Are You Catholic and Can You Make A Roux? Who's Your Mama(The Sequel) and Cajun Cooking for Beginners. She co-edited Cooking Up A Storm: Recipes Lost and Found (Times Picayune 2008) which was nominated for a James Beard Award in 2009. She worked with Emeril Lagasse for fifteen years and co-authored several cookbooks with him including Louisiana Real & Rustic Emerils Creole Christmas Emerils TV Dinners and Every Days A Party.  She owned and operated a restaurant Chez Marcelle near Lafayette LA and has worked for several restaurants including Commander's Palace and K-Paul's Louisiana Kitchen in New Orleans. A graduate of USL (now University of Lafayette in Louisiana). She was an instructor at the Chef John Folse Culinary Institute at Nicholls State University for eleven years and lives on Bayou Têche in St. Martinville. LA with her husband Rock Lasserre. Photographer Randy Krause Schmidt was born and raised in New Orleans. Emeril Lagasse is the best-selling author of 19 cookbooks including his first Emerils New New Orleans Cooking which introduced his creative take on Creole cuisine. As a national TV personality he has hosted more than 2000 shows on the Food Network and is the food correspondent for ABCs Good Morning America. Lagasse has received many accolades and awards for his culinary expertise including Humanitarian of the Year by the James Beard Foundation  Lifetime Achievement Award from the Food Network Distinguished Service Award from Wine Spectator Chef of the Year by GQ magazine and many more.