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Yum, Yum, Yum! A Taste of Cajun and Creole Cooking

Yum, Yum, Yum! A Taste of Cajun and Creole Cooking. Les Blank and Maureen Gosling, 1990.
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Edition screened: Included in Criterion Blu-ray set #737 Les Blank: Always for Pleasure, released 2014. English language. Runtime approximately 31 minutes.

Summary: Butchering related to rural cooking.

Details:
1) Butchering fish, rinsing blood, etc., 1:17-1:35.
2) Catching and skinning frogs, 15:34-15:38.
3) Prolongued view of a fish dying as it lies on ice, 19:30-19:49, as though it were a poetic image.
4) Crawfish boiled alive, 21:20-21:35.
5) Gruesome carving of a pig’s head to make boudin.

Criterion indexes the 2014 documentary Marc and Les after this title.