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In recognition of all Indian elders
May 10, 11, 12th, 1985
Mac Court, University of Oregon
Eugene, Oregon
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Page 4B, The Friday Edition
Rooster (left) and Ray
from KLCC*radio’s
Blues Power fame,
serve up Southern
cookin’ at the Bayou
Kitchen in Old
Taylor’s Pub.
By Cynthia Whitfield
The Rooster Man (Gavin Fox) deftly taps an
enormous slab of iced shrimp against the kit
chen counter in a little back room in Old
Taylor’s Tavern. He’s preparing to cook up
another batch of authentic shrimp creole — a
rare treat in this part of the country.
Rooster’s working in his new eatery, the Bayou Kit
chen, which is housed in a tavern alternately described as
quiet, rowdy, down-to-earth or just plain funky. But
Rooster is no newcomer to this place. In fact, he says, the
restaurant is a natural outgrowth of his eight-year-long in
volvement with bringing the music and culture of the Loui
siana bayou country to Eugene.
The tall, blond, ‘‘cocky’’ native Californian had
already been ‘‘tied up with Taylor’s” because of its Blues
Jam. The jam, a free evening of blues that’s provided by
area-musicians, is organized by Rooster and Ray Varner,
who are also partners in restaurant.
‘‘The blues jam has to be a free event,” Rooster says,
aware of the fact that the jam is Taylor’s biggest night for
beer sales. But requests to move the jam to a weekend night
will not be considered. “The whole idea is based around
the concept of Blue Monday,” he explains.
“This was a business idea of both Ray’s and mine.
We’ve been talking about it for years. We're both into all
aspects of that (black) music and culture,” Rooster says.
So the restuarant came, well, naturally.
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Photo by lint Marks
Rooster says ho
would like people in
Eugene to “get
together with the
music, culture and
food” of Louisiana’s
bayou country. He,
along with Ray
Varner, coordinates
the weekly Blues Jam
at Old Taylor’s.
“After noticing the kitchen was free, I approached
owner Dave Dingman with the idea (for the restaurant) and
he was hot for it. It’s the right food for the right place,”
Rooster says.
“A restaurant like this is unusual in the West. But in
Louisiana, all the bars and joints have a basic kitchen with
soul food. I’d say red beans and rice is the potato salad of
the South," he says.
/ slide into a Taylor's bench with a friend. The menu is
delivered and I decide immediately on shrimp creole —
rice covered with a tangy red sauce, and loaded with small
shrimp and two jumbo shrimp. I can 7 resist a couple of
barbecue ribs to go along with it. My companion, however,
is intent on trying the red beans and rice. He orders that
and more ribs.
Rooster appears from the kitchen. He waves at us and
delivers an order of hot sausage sandwiches and red beans
and rice to a couple at a nearby table.
“Are you the Rooster and Ray from Blues Power?" so
meone asks him in a tone of voice that approachs awe.
"Sure am baby, ” he replies, flashes a smile, and
whizzes back to the kitchen.
The food is delivered. 1 bite into the shrimp creole,
and bite again. It’s delicious, rich and tangy — and, to me,
hot! I gulp beer for relief, and enthusiatically dig in again.
I wonder how other people react to the spice. "My
feeling about the food and climate there (Louisiana) is that
it’s all spicy and hot," Rooster says.
According to Varner, the two received a number of
cooking pointers from the widely-known Zydeco music ar
tist Clifton Chenier — by way of his cook, Arthur
Arceneaux. Chenier would travel with his cook and share
meals with Rooster and Ray when the two were in the
Photo by Dean Guernsey
business of bringing big-name black artists to town.
"He helped us with our gumbo, red beans and all
kinds of things,” Rooster says.
"The red beans was gleaned from a recipe book by
Louis Armstrong’s wife. We also threw in some tidbits
passed down from a friend who got information from Fats
Domino’s cook,” Varner says. Other recipes were picked
up by both men’s experience living in the area, and
meeting other people.
The menu at the Bayou Kitchen includes ribs, and
chicken in Louisiana barbecue sauce, Shrimp Creole, Red
Beans and Rice, Hot sausages, cole slaw and varying com
binations of the above. Specials include gumbo, boiled
crawfish and other dishes. The prices range from 75 cents a
rib, to $4.50 for a half-chicken with red beans and rice, col
eslaw and French bread. (Business hours are 11 a.m. to 9
p.m. every day except Sunday and Thursday.)
If there’s a problem in the Bayou Kitchen, it’s figuring
how to spice the food for Northwest palates — “They’re
not peppered,’’ Rooster says. However, evaluations have
ranged from “too hot” to “not hot enough.”
My friend can't believe I've downed a glass of water
and a beer to cool off my palate.
“The food is spicy, but it's not hot at all. ” he tells me
with amusement, digging into his even hotter red beans
and rice.
“Our idea is that the music and food are intergrated. In
Louisiana, for instance, the people have big street parties
with lots of food, drink and music. The major tourist attrac
tion to the area is the food and music,” Rooster explains.
“That's the thing — in other places, the blues is still a
happening thing. New Orleans is real proud of their
musical legacy. In the West, the music, like the food, has
been defused,” he says.
Saturdays, to expose the blues to an even wider au
dience, either Rooster or Ray exchange knives and forks for
microphones and LP’s to air KLCC’s Blues Power, from 3
p.m. to 6 p.m.
Other people in the area promoting black music, in
cluding rhythm & blues and gospel, are Bill Rhodes of Bill
Rhodes Blues Deluxe, John Cooney of KLCC, and Johnny
Ethridge of KRVM.
"We'd like to bring more exposure to people of a
culture they haven’t been much in touch with, so that we
can all find some common ground and aren’t afraid of each
other. I’d like people to be able to get together with the
music, culture and food,” he says.
PITCHER OF HENRY'S
FOR ONLY $105
YES! Anytime you buy a sandwich you can get a cool,
refreshing pitcher of Henry's for only $1.05. Come in
and try our food and enjoy a pitcher of Henry's. And after
3:30 you can buy pitchers for only $1.25.
$125 PITCHERS
After 3:30, until closing, you can enjoy
pitchers of Henry's for only $1.25. Still
only $1.05 when you buy any of our
delicious sandwiches.
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