The city, home to regionally famous The Best Stop and a host of other Cajun specialty meat shops, is looking to host an annual boudin festival beginning next year.
Rep. Stephen Ortego, D-Carencro, was successful recently in his bid to have the northwest Lafayette Parish city of Scott designated the Boudin Capital of the World by his colleagues in the Legislature. Ortego’s House Concurrent Resolution 41 sailed through the Senate by 34-0 vote and is headed to the governor for his official imprimatur.
The city, home to regionally famous The Best Stop and a host of other Cajun specialty meat shops, is looking to host an annual boudin festival beginning next year. Scott reportedly makes and sells more than 1.3 million pounds of boudin annually and, according to state Sen. Jonathan Perry, R-Kaplan, who sponsored a companion bill, employs more than 80 people in the craft of boudin making.
C’EST WHAT? “Boudin — pork, rice and gravy in a pork casing — has more subtle variations from butcher to butcher than any other Cajun sausage.” From a photo caption on NOLA.com, the website of The Times-Picayune
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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