We are touring the Midwest Travel Writers Association around the great city of Baton Rouge. Our first stop on Friday was to the Louisiana Culinary Institute. The group of 30 writers broke into five groups and each group got to watch a chef instructor prepare a Louisiana dish!
Here’s one recipe for Corn Macque Choux!
Ingredients
1/2 cup [...]
BATON ROUGE BLUES FESTIVAL READY TO GROOVE IN REPENTANCE PARK
Renowned Blues Artists Take the Stage in Baton Rouge
BATON ROUGE, LA – The Annual Baton Rouge Blues Festival returns to entertain blues fans from around the world April 24, 2010 at Repentance Park in Baton Rouge. The 2010 festival boasts an impressive lineup of Blues legends [...]
Live After Five in Baton Rouge is an event hosted by the Downtown Business Association that takes place every spring and fall with different genres of music. The concert series is held every year to entice people to visit and journey through downtown Baton Rouge. Visitors then have the opportunity to visit with the local [...]
I walked into Young Chefs Academy, and the smell of delicious treats made my mouth water. This week, the Academy is hosting a spring break camp called “The Lemonade Stand.” The Young Chefs are making strawberry lemonade, blueberry lemonade and baked snacks to sell at their very own lemonade stands.
The Academy provides a fun and [...]
Delicious Fun! As the state’s capital, Baton Rouge is the hub of all things Louisiana and close to all the fun and excitement that make this area so unique. Old South beauty, Creole culture, Cajun zest, colorful politics and all-around good time – the variety of cultural influence make this city a unique and charming [...]
Cajun and Creole culinary influences collide at the Mississippi River and Interstate 10 in Baton Rouge where “Capital Cuisine” reigns supreme. We’re always cooking up a good time in Baton Rouge, and you’re invited to taste the flavors that keep everybody coming back for more. In a region with rich soil, year round tropical climate [...]
Louisiana is known for its spring time crowd-around-the-table event better known as Crawfish Season! Crawfish are usually harvested during the Lenten season and coincides with the start of spring. On most Saturdays and Sundays you can smell the delicious boil around any Baton Rouge neighborhood. Crawfish boils are used as a time for family [...]
We asked members of our staff to submit their favorite Louisiana Holiday Recipes. So from our kitchens to yours here are Visit Baton Rouge’s Holiday Recipes!
Cream Cheese and Green Olive Roll by Karron Alford, Sales Manager
1 pkg. Cream cheese
½ sm. Jar Green olives (use less if you want more of the cream cheese flavor)
Chopped [...]
New Orleans is one of the country’s best-known dining Meccas, but on a recent farm-to-table visit to Louisiana, I found lots of other amazing food. A recent addition to the region’s fine-dining scene is Ramsay’s Mansion Restaurant at Nottoway, a magnificent plantation house that was renovated and refurbished earlier this year in time for its [...]
I could say that I wear many hats, but the truth is I have one hat; I just wear it all over the place. I wear it to the fire department. I wear it to the ballpark. I wear it when I travel and when I write. I don’t buy into that “I wear many [...]
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