German toast?

Laurence Horn laurence.horn at YALE.EDU
Mon Feb 12 03:22:24 UTC 2001


At 8:55 AM -0500 2/12/01, Tony Glaser wrote:
>At 1:53 AM -0500 2/12/01, Bruce Dykes wrote:
>>
>>
>>Isn't French Toast known as 'pain perdue,' 'lost bread,' down in Lousiana?
>>Ostensibly from the classic 'use yesterday's bread' family of recipes...
>>
>>Now I heard that on Emeril, and just because something is Cajun doesn't make
>>it French, and just because it's on Emeril doesn't make it Cajun, but it
>>seems a good lead...
>>
>>bkd
>
>It's called pain perdue in both French and Haitian creole.
>
>Tony Glaser

More likely "pain perdu", unless you're stuffing it into chicken.

larry



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