Ponderosa Stomp

2017 Ponderosa Stomp: Doug Kershaw Is Coming To The Orpheum Theater

Doug Kershaw Is Performing At The 2017 Ponderosa Stomp

Doug Kershaw is 81 years old, and still playing with the raw abandon that saw his career begin at the tender age of 12.

At the start, the Tiel Ridge, Louisiana native played under his mother Mama Rita Broussard Kershaw. In 1939, young Doug picked up the fiddle at five years of age. In 1941, Kershaw became the man of the house when his daddy died. He was 7.

Fiddle in hand, he hit the town. Continue Reading

Louisiana Food Culture

Sean Suire’s Cajun Table Wins Inaugural Plate Lunch A Palooza

In New Orleans we call them hotplates; in Alabama they’re called meat and threes; out in Acadiana they’re simply known as plate lunches.

The formula is simple. Take a melamine plate or a styrofoam or pasteboard box, cram it full of pork chops, meatloaf, fried chicken, macaroni and cheese, collard greens, mashed potatoes or stewed okra-then sell it for a pittance so the working man can wolf it down and get back to work at the refinery or insurance agency where he earns his living.

This past weekend in Youngsville, Lafayette Parish, Louisiana, Plate Lunch A Palooza saw its debut. 16 regional restaurants competed to see who puts out the best plate lunch in Acadiana.

When the dust had settled, Sean Suire’s Cajun Table emerged victorious with their country style pork ribs, fresh sausage, rice and gravy, smothered cabbage and black eyed peas. The plate sold for $5.

Cajun Table
4510 Ambassador Caffery Pkwy
Lafayette, Louisiana
70508

Telephone
(337) 806-9565

Louisiana Food Culture, Recipes

A Recipe For Crawfish Étouffée With The Holy Trinity

A Recipe For Crawfish Étouffée With The Holy Trinity

The World Championship Crawfish Étouffée Cook-Off was started in 1986 in Eunice, the ‘Prairie Cajun Capitol of Louisiana’. That first year none other than Dewey Balfa provided entertainment to the 107 cooking teams, and hungry assembled Cajuns.

Then-mayor Curtis Joubert courted controversy by banning electric rice cookers stating: “…rice cookers are not Cajun, and only black pots are in.” Continue Reading

Field Reports

Field Report: 2017 Goodfellas Social Aid and Pleasure Club Second Line

2017 Goodfellas Social Aid and Pleasure Club Second Line In New Orleans

Sometimes a dream comes true. The two hottest brass bands in New Orleans marched for the 2017 Goodfellas Social Aid and Pleasure Club Second Line yesterday. New Breed Brass Band, formed in 2013, rolled out three trumpets, two trombones, a sax, a tuba and a bass drummer for the parade. Continue Reading