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Havana Louisiana
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Southern hospitality is more than grace and manners. It is more than linen table clothes or a maître d' poised with a servile entourage ready to ensure you have the experience of a lifetime. Southern hospitality is best described as a confluence of culture.
This cultural confluence happened over centuries combining numerous peoples and cultures, namely, Acadian, African, Anglo-American, Brazilian, Congolese, Creole, Cuban, English, European, French, German, Haitian, Irish, Jewish, Latino, Native American, Sicilian, Spanish, Vietnamese, and more. In fact, Louisiana could be considered one of the oldest and most diverse poly-cultures in the world.
This poly-culture was forged through many wars, conflicts and multiple transfers of ownership from one country to another. Until in 1803, when President Thomas Jefferson brokered a deal with France to acquire what would become the mid-section of the United States doubling the county's size. That deal was the Louisiana Purchase. Later the land mass would be subdivided into states. The iconic "L-shape" of the Louisiana we know today, was admitted to the union in 1812. That's over 200 years ago and still the highly infused poly-culture lives on and thrives.
Louisiana also shares a long relationship history with Cuba as a major shipping port and migration route partner. The influences of the Caribbean island culture on the mainland became self-evident, to borrow a phrase from our Declaration of Independence, making Havana, Cuba and New Orleans, La., USA, sister cities.
While two cultures of the poly-culture have majority numbers, Cajun (a cross-cultural culture) and Creole or Criollo (meaning one from the colony), the infusion of all the cultures into each other creates no definitive boundary.
Though we've tried above, our poly-cultural roots are uniquely indescribable, and yet the confluence of daily life of celebrating, of cuisine, of language and music can be experienced. We honor our poly-cultural roots by infusing its very essence into everything we create. Sharing what we affectionately refer to as Havana Louisiana ™