Down-Home Cajun Cooking Favorites: The Best Authentic Cajun Recipes from Louisiana’s Bayou Country, or How to Cook Traditional Cajun Meals as if You Were Born a Cajun
Neal Bertrand was born and reared in Opelousas, Louisiana, in the heart of Cajun Country. He has had experience as a farmer, gardener, cattle rancher, carpet cleaner, flooring installer, vertical blind technician, Postal worker, mail clerk for city government, and owner of a successful printing business. He designed, created and printed a nutritional product catalog, selling 140,000 of them to product distributors. He wrote, designed, printed and sold 120,000 informational sales booklets to help recruit and sponsor nutrition distributors. He has over a decade of experience as an employee of a publishing company, helping his employer publish 40 magazine issues and 16 books, several of them being cookbooks. His first published book was the bi-lingual (English & French) "Cajun Country Fun Coloring and Activity Book" which he published for the artist. He then left his employment and published his fast-selling cookbook, "Down-Home Cajun Cooking Favorites" in 2005, which has been revised and is in its second edition. The next cookbook he wrote is the very popular "Rice Cooker Meals: Fast Home Cooking for Busy People" which shows how to cook a one-pot meal in 30 minutes using a simple rice cooker. His latest cookbook is the very popular "Slow Cooker Meals: Easy Home Cooking for Busy People."