Cochon’s mastermind, Donald Link, drew a crowd Friday night in New Orleans, and Southern Living magazine took notice.
At Friday night’s Boudin & Beer in New Orleans, South Louisiana chef Donald Link, owner of Cochon, and his Link Restaurant Group served their famed smoked boudin. That same boudin that made an impresison on Southern Living also made an impression on Lafayette revelers at the annual Boudin Cook-off a few weeks ago.
Cochon smokes the boudin for 24 hours, and at the Lafayete location, it sits in an outdoor smoker than many don’t even notice as they walk by.
This second annual Boudin & Beer festival was founded by Emeril Lagasse to benefit his foundation, which helps fund children’s organizations in New Orleans, including the new New Orleans Center for Creative Arts and Saint Michael Special School.
Read more about the event on Southern Living’s website here.
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.
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.