Slap Ya Mama — cajun mardi gras

[caption id="attachment_2231" align="alignright" width="560"] Riders at the Cajun Courir de Mardi Gras. Photo by Laura Gerdes Colligan[/caption] It's time for an old fashioned Louisiana Mardi Gras! Fiddles and accordions are blasting, and chickens are being tossed so high you'd almost think they were flying. Costumed revelers who look like they came straight out of medieval history sporting fringed and wire mesh feudal outfits on horseback, chasing chickens and begging for ingredients for a huge communal gumbo. Louisiana Cajun Country's Courir de Mardi Gras - a tradition that dates all the way back to medieval celebrations in France. Traditions of Louisiana...