After the history and symbols, eating and drinking!
Sugarcane arrived in Louisiana in 1751: the Jesuits, known for their indulgence in planted next to their church in a corner of the Vieux Carré. Soon the first commercial plantings swarmed on the outskirts of the city. In 1795, a Etienne de Bore, the king's musketeer born in Illinois and raised in France, he developed the industrial grit of the sugar plantation in the west of the city where Today is ... Audubon Park! Hence the beautiful oak lined recessed Magazine Street.
Its industrial and commercial successes earned Boré to become the first mayor of New Orleans, appointed by Governor Claiborne just after the Louisiana Purchase by Thomas Jefferson.
The rise of the cane in Louisiana is largely due to the Haitian revolution of 1791 and the thousands of slaves who killed themselves to the task in places like this:
They were more or less protected by Code Black, which recognizing a soul prevented at least treat them like animals ...
Today, Louisiana is one of the top producing states of the U.S. sugar cane: the venerable American Sugarcane League (est. 1922) informs us in one of its platelets that 20% of U.S. sugar cane is produced here. The industry generates 1.7 billion dollars in annual revenue and employs over 27,000 people. However, the subtropical climate is not ideal for cane and she resists his Central American counterparts at the cost of protectionism and a fanatical policy of subsidies to large scale. Louisiana Sugar is also very good:
The Chalmette refinery sugar is still the largest in North America located on a bend of the Mississippi, it looks lazy flowing river for over a century . 
The rise of sugar in the Nord-pas-de-Calais was in roughly the same time. Again, the great Napoleon changed the course of history. Wanting to weaken the perfidious Albion, he established the continental blockade to prevent the English from trading with Europe. Maritime trade off, you can not buy sugar from America! Hence the work Benjamin Delessert contractor under the empire, which succeeded in extracting sugar from beet. The plant, saving, already cultivated in Northern France, was sanctified by the emperor who decided to devote as dry 32,000 hectares of farmland (Order 1811).
Delessert met the guy and certainly Franklin Watts. He also introduced in France the savings bank and set up the Livret A.
The good beet had to fight hard against his noble rival American and she really needed to succeed from the abolition of slavery by the Second Republic: the slaves coûtèrent much more expensive once they have become farm workers! Today, the beet itself as a major crop throughout the northern part of France: the site Labetterave.com us that the Nord-Pas-de-Calais and Picardie are the two largest producing regions. Through it, France is the leading European producer of sugar! Yippee! It's true that white sugar is strangely worse than cane sugar ...
brand Beghin-Say, well known by all the confectioners, is originire Northern Department: it originates in the candy Thumeries, founded in 1821. It was bought by the nineteenth century Béghin then merges with Say in 1973. In 2004 it merged with Union SDA again and became the multinational Tereos whose headquarters ... Lille! With pesticides, synthetic fertilizers and farm machinery of all kinds, Tereos produces sugar, alcohol and biofuel worldwide. Re-Yippee!
There is another common food production in two regions: the beer. While our friends in the Sticks would be sickened to see compared with Louisiana: their land is covered with small breweries as diverse than authentic.
However, we can say without too much advance than beer Local Louisiana plays the same role as the local beer from the North: it is an omnipresent point of reference. Each bar is the Abita draft (pressure) and can be ordered in a bottle in each restaurant. The most common version is the redhead Amber , but there are also the wonderful Preservation Pale Ale, Golden, the Jacomo, the Purple Haze and brown Tuborg. Abita also produces five seasonal beers: Bock, Red, Wheat, Fall Fest and Christmas, and three beers scented Strawberry, Pecan, Satsuma. The light version is drunk at game parties. All beers are brewed Abita Springs, just north of Lake Pontchartrain. 
Among Cajuns, we also discovered the Pale THE 31 Beer, brewed on the banks of Bayou Teche. It is a cloudy white beer more bitter than its counterparts in Belgium. 
Then of course there are many more different beers in the north, but still it was worth talking about as the Abita Amber is common in our tropical latitudes. That said, the Red Stripe Jamaica remains one of the best blondes on sale in the area ... 
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