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[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...

Representatives of the popular Cajun food products company, Slap Ya Mama, have been informed by Cox Sports Television (CST) that the NFL will no longer allow the Slap Ya Mama Red Zone in the Saints’ final preseason game because of concerns about the Slap Ya Mama name. On Tuesday, August 19th, Marc Leunissen, Director of Sales, Cox Media Louisiana sent an email to the advertising representative for Walker & Sons, Inc., Slap Ya Mama Cajun Products, stating, “In light of the domestic violence issues facing the NFL, they have instructed CST pull the Slap Ya Mama logo from our enhancements...

[caption id="attachment_604" align="alignright" width="568"] Smoked Pure Pork Sausage[/caption] Our hometown, Ville Platte, Louisiana, is known for many things and embodies a Cajun culture unlike any other town in Louisiana.  People from all over the world come to Ville Platte to experience our culture, our music and of course our world renowned food.  But there is one thing that we are extremely proud of and well known for and that is our smoked meat.  We are so well known for our smoked meat that we are considered to be the Smoked Meat Capital of the World. We smoke pretty much anything...

How Ville Platte got its somewhat unique name remains obscure in the minds of would be historians seeking the solution thereof. Notations on the original plats of survey for the area that is now Ville Platte statedthat surveyors hadtouse pirogues and flat boats to properly do their work.Consequently, those surveyors referred to it as 'Flat Ville' or 'Flat Town', both of which, when translated into French, should be "Ville Plat" but wound up 'Ville Platte'. However, the name Ville Platte could have come from another source. In its early inception the hamlet of Ville Platte was the first community on...