Someone finally got it right. New York Times reporter Mimi Read has a story this morning about New Orleans chef Donald Link who opened a Cajun meat market, Cochon Butcher, yesterday, in the Big Easy. Link is a native of southwest Louisiana, cousin to Bubba Frey who makes superior boudin at the Mowata Store, just south of Eunice. Cochon, Link’s second restaurant in New Orleans, (Herbsaint was his flagship before Katrina and continues to serve white tablecloth country/city fusion) is the only restaurant in the Crescent City where diners can get truly authentic Cajun cooking. In 2008, Cochon and Link made the New York Timestop ten list of best new restaurants in the country. In order to support his habits — andouille, chaurice, tasso and of course boudin — Link took up the sausage grinder and fired up a smokehouse, making the kind of fresh and smoked charcuterie Cajuns take for granted.
The opening of Cochon Butcher is great news for Cajun expats, who had to drive three hours to get their boudin fix. Equally gratifying is Read’s article, which clearly outlines the difference between New Orleans urban Creole cooking and Cajun country fare, a maddening confusion the national press continues to perpetrate. Good job Ms. Read.
Is it a crime for citizens to photograph, video, or take notes of a police officer in the line of duty, or a right protected by the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution? Locally, such activity, as witnessed recently, will at the very least result in a night spent behind bars.
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.
Episcopal School of Acadiana’s Dr. Joshua Caffery, chair of the school’s English Department, is headed to Washington, D.C., and the Library of Congress as the latest winner of the Alan Lomax Fellowship in Folklife Studies.
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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