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Post by Capttrips25 on May 21, 2004 20:00:54 GMT -5
Actually it is an ancient Celtic word brought to the bayous of Louisiana by a blind Portuguese shaman with lisp and a penchant for Penney loafers and Hawaiian shirts.
As the story goes, “dhan-ah-roul” was the God of eclectic stone circle room furnishings and was later used as a slang term for a stew made from anything you can gather and put in a pot.
While trying to make a pilgrimage to the Ganges in India Geoff Finkelstine, a shaman born in an insignificant town in Portugal was caught stowing away on a freighter bound for the Chinese silk empire and was set adrift after being severally chewed out by the captain.
After 37 days alone in the ocean he washed up on the shore of Scotland and was taken in by a leper sheep farmer where he first tasted the for-mentioned dish. He stayed for a number of years until he was run out of town for wearing wemans under garments.
Geoff, being an odd sort of man was forced to move often and longed for a place where he would not be scorned. He found that place in a small bayou in Louisiana and became the owner of a very popular restraint. And the story goes he served the dhan-ah-roul there but was pronounced “Bonnaroo”.
I think I read that in a Cajun cookbok somewhere. Titled something like "Cajun recipes that really aren't Cajun". I think it mgiht have been written by Warren Haynes????? I 'm sure you could find it on Amazon or Barnes adn Nobles.
