As much anticipated as the release of the music listings, the food list for the 2008 New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival is now online . There’s not too many surprises, you’ll still be able to get two of the best poboys around, cochon de lait and fried soft-shell crab poboys, as well as an international feast from Japan, Africa, the Caribbean, and of course Cajun country, which is represented by Prejean’s Restaurant and Creole Lunch House . Pheasant, Quail & Andouille Gumbo, Crab & Crawfish Stuffed Mushrooms, Crawfish Enchiladas will be served from Prejean’s kitchens, while Merlene Herbert of Creole Lunch House will offer her Creole Stuffed Bread and Sausage, Pepperoni & Mozzarella Stuffed Bread.
It seems downright unfair that a place where everything tastes great turns up on most of the bad-for-you lists. In the just released 16th edition of Health Care State Rankings, 2008, editors Kathleen O’Leary Morgan and Scott Morgan rank Louisiana 49th , a one point increase over last year, when letting the good times roll tumbled us into 50th place. Some of the 21 criteria used were the percentage of adults who are binge drinkers, who smoke, who are obese and do not exercise. The only other dog in the fight for last place is the state with the best fried catfish in creation, our across-the-river neighbor, Mississippi.
Now, back to the food... pecan catfish meuniere, seafood mirliton casserole, fried crab cake with smoked tomato and jalapeno tartar, alligator pie, crabmeat stuffed shrimp, fried green tomatoes, oyster patties, crawfish beignets... Jazz Fest weekends are April 25 - 27 and May 1 – 4, click here for more info.
David Calhoun and Elizabeth “EB” Brooks are the first two employees of Lafayette Central Park Inc., the nonprofit charged with turning Lafayette Consolidated Government’s 100-acre Johnston Street Horse Farm property into a passive public park. Calhoun was named executive director, and Brooks is director of planning and design.
At Thursday's State of the Economy luncheon, LEDA President and CEO Gregg Gothreaux said PXP has already quietly hired 180 people for its Broussard expansion.
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.
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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