42220 Wed Dec 21 22:08:47 -0800 2005 9 1 San Francisco Bay Area 0 204710 Does anyone know where I can get Cajun boudin? Or maybe you could recommend a Southern meat market in Oakland? Wed Dec 21 22:08:47 -0800 2005 0 Hershey Bomar 1 204711 Taylor's Sausage makes a very good boudin. Reasonable prices, also. 907 Washington St. Oakland 94607 510. 832-6448 Wed Dec 21 22:30:59 -0800 2005 204710 0 Gordon Wing 2 204751 I agree that Taylor's makes a good sausage called a boudin, and other great sausages, too. But it's not the kind of Cajun boudin I've had in Louisiana, which had a loose filling with lots of rice, and bits of pork and pork liver. Taylor's is more like a hot link than what I've experienced as boudin. The only cajun boudin I've had in California was at a barbecue place called Warren's in the Baldwin Heights area of L.A., but I don't think it's there any more, unfortunately. Thu Dec 22 12:08:46 -0800 2005 204711 0 jim m. 3 204765 Yeah. Warren's is gone. I've never even heard of it. Another place in the Valley, Mom's BBQ, makes boudin when, ah, Mom feels like it. So almost never. Thu Dec 22 12:51:19 -0800 2005 204751 0 Hershey Bomar 3 204779 I have to admit that I've never been to Louisiana so I look forward to having some boudin on the hood of my car in some dirt parking lot somewhere. But I'm a bit confused about your reference to Taylor's boudin as being a lot more akin to a hot link ... I would guess that Taylor's boudin blanc is at least 60% rice by volume and I've never had a hot link that looked/tasted like that. Are we talking about the same thing here? Thu Dec 22 13:38:53 -0800 2005 204751 0 Gordon Wing 4 204787 The boudin I've gotten a couple of times at Taylor's had rice, but when I say it was more like a hot link, I meant it was already cooked and smoked, and you could slice it into thin rounds if you wanted to. The Louisiana boudin I've had was cooked (boiled, not smoked) right before serving. When you eat it, you bite a hole in the casing and squeeze out the insides, which are a very loose consistency. Maybe Taylor's has more than one kind of boudin? Thu Dec 22 14:05:24 -0800 2005 204779 0 jim m. 5 204797 Here's a good picture of what I think of as Cajun boudin. The link is pretty interesting too. Link: http://boudinlink.com/Billys/Billys.html Thu Dec 22 14:14:12 -0800 2005 204787 0 jim m. 6 204895 there's also a famous place called bonnin's in acadania, la that has crazy good boudin. Thu Dec 22 20:41:28 -0800 2005 204797 0 kevin 5 204823 mmm.....the boudin I've bought from Taylor's is not already cooked/smoked. although, once it's cooked you could cut it up into pieces and maybe thin slices but maybe not because the relatively loose filling is not that set (like a hot link) But it may not be as loose as the fillings you're thinking of that can be squeezed out of the casing and falls apart. Thanks for the link - good reading and I lilked the images. Thu Dec 22 16:03:28 -0800 2005 204787 0 Gordon Wing 6 204866 Sounds like I missed out at Taylors. I haven't seen a boudin there like you describe any of the times I've been. Maybe they don't make it all the time? Thu Dec 22 18:40:10 -0800 2005 204823 0 jim m