Fall is here and what better way to enjoy the outdoors than to gorge on the foods that we make best in Lafayette.
Two gumbo cook-offs are on the horizon: one for the Realtors Association of Acadiana that will benefit Habitat for Humanity, and the other by Stone Energy to benefit the United Way of Acadiana.
The Realtors Association’s 22nd annual gumbo cook-off will be Thursday, Oct. 11 from 4:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. at Parc International. Competing teams will serve bottomless gumbo bowls for $10 per person.
The theme this year is “Gumbo with the Stars” and Jamie Bergeron and the Kickin’ Cajuns will provide the music. At 6:30, judges will decide the winner of the children’s costume contest — and children under 5 years old receive complimentary entry. For more information, contact Kathy and the association’s office at 233-0086 or
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Stone Energy is hosting its gumbo cook-off on Oct. 18 from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. at Cajun Field. Entry is $5, which includes a chance to meet Jake Delhomme, a car and bike show, live music, raffle and silent auction. Raffle tickets are $2 and participants can win a custom-built crawfish boiler, an IPad, two nights at Windsor Court New Orleans, a Chargrill gas grill, two nights at Homewood Suites Lafayette or a $200 gift card to The Golf Connection.
And who can forget the famous boudin cook-off on Oct. 20? The event is in its fifth year and benefits the Historic Preservation Alliance of Lafayette. Make your way to Parc Sans Souci downtown from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. for all the boudin you could ever desire. Entries include Nunu’s, T-Boy’s, Billeaud’s, Chop’s, Johnson’s Boucaniere, Early’s Cajun Supermarket, Mike’s Country Corner, Cochon, J.W.’s Meats and Smokehouse — and one entry all the way from Austin, Texas: Fatback Boucherie. If you have confidence in your stomach, enter the boudin-eating contest.
Entry to the cook-off is free, and there will be free food samples from Uncle’s BBQ Sauce and Blue Bell Creamery. The event is family-friendly with fun jumps, face painting and games.
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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