Bayou St. James engineers spice blends to add joy and convenience to your cooking experience.
I am the James in Bayou St. James. I love all things food. I love cooking, talking about cooking, reading about cooking and teaching cooking, you get the idea.
My wife Renee is from New Orleans while I am from Wisconsin. A vacation to Louisiana while we were dating was an epiphany. The food was such a revelation that I dreamed about it. I love the visceral connection with food that exists in Louisiana. When we got married, we did not have much money but we did have money for some ingredients and what started as frugality, quickly grew into an obsession. At a family reunion I found that I have cousins near Lafayette which revealed more aspects of Cajun cooking. I was thrilled with the Louisiana connection and we go there often. Many years ago, prior to the rise of the internet, Cajun food was difficult to come by in Wisconsin and the ingredients were just as sparse. The scarcity of ingredients led to learning how to make Cajun food on my own including sausages like Andouille and Boudin and a Cajun inspired spice blend as well. I enjoy the mechanics of creating food and tinkering with my creations until they are perfected. My Creole seasoning was created out of necessity in the mid 1990’s and has remained unchanged since. This led to the creation of many more products which, in-turn, led to the creation of Bayou St. James in 2015.
Our Mission Statement
We create flavor and convenience to make your best cooking experience better because flavor is foremost.
My favorite quote by my favorite author says it all
Good food blesses all, the one who makes it and the one who eats it.
Camille Glenn
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