At 6 p.m. Friday, May 6 at Don’s Seafood & Steakhouse in downtown Lafayette, Acadian House Publishing is hosting a book launch party for Marcelle Bienvenu’s newest cookbook, No Baloney on My Boat. This is the latest of Bienvenu’s offerings. Her book Who’s Your Mama, Are You Catholic, and Can You Make a Roux? is a legendary Cajun cookbook staple. She has also co-written cookbooks with Emeril Legasse and was nominated for a James Beard award.
The title of this book references her father and what he always insisted on packing before any fishing trip with his family. In this book Bienvenu shows how easily you can make things like Gazpacho, Summer Spaghetti, Cheesy Bacon Bread and more with few ingredients and little fuss. The book isn’t strictly for boats — its theme is more outdoorsy than strictly nautical, perfect for any outdoor cooking setting.
Bienvenu is an instructor at Nicholls State University's culinary program as well as a regular writer for The Times-Picayune and has been writing about Cajun and Creole cooking since the 1960s.
There is a second book signing from 12:30 p.m. to 2 p.m. at Barnes & Noble the following day.
There will soon be a whole lot of shakin’ going on at Benny’s Sportshack Supplement Depot, a new concept by Opelousas native Benny Nele. Located at 2002 Johnston St., the supplement shop, smoothie bar and café, featuring hot off the press paninis and wraps, plans to open in late May.
Philip deMahy Sr., a once respected New Iberia ad exec, was sentenced May 2 to spend the next two years (he faced up to 100 years) in a state penitentiary after state and federal investigators found dozens of images depicting children engaged in lewd sexual acts on his personal computer.
This year’s Cool Town issue is all about people who are not native to South Louisiana but made a conscious decision to be here, to be among us, to participate in our culture and contribute to it.
A shelved ordinance transferring $200,000 from a northside drainage project to a south Lafayette development may not break any laws, but it stinks to high heaven.
An effort to restore a shuttered dancehall and document other vacant or razed honky-tonks could serve as a model for saving an endangered species of entertainment.
Lafayette’s gene pool has been host to a long line of eccentric characters who have blurred the lines between crazy, genius, disturbed and curiously entertaining.
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