answer:I’m a Midwesterner and lived in New Orleans for a short time in the early 80s. This was long before the Internet and celebrity chefs. Cajun food was truly exotic to me. My favorite experience was getting a bowl of gumbo with a crawfish poking its head up and staring at me. The waiter saw I was disconcerted. “He’s dead, you know. It’s like a shrimp. Eat it. Everybody does.” Well, if everybody can do it, so can I. Anyway, I moved back north. And Paul Prudhomme became famous and taught America about the wonderful food of Louisiana. And among my friends, I was a pioneer, who already knew about the “new” Cajun food. So thanks, Paul! You gave a lot of joy to a lot of people!