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Louisiana Alligator The culture of Louisiana involves its music, food, religion, clothing, language, architecture, art, literature, games, and sports. Often, these elements are the basis for one of the many festivals in the state. Louisiana, while sharing many similarities to its neighbors along the Gulf Coast, is unique in the influence of Louisiana French culture, due to the historical waves ...
La Fete Des Vieux Temps - Raceland [1]; Alligator Festival - Luling; Andouille Festival - LaPlace; Breaux Bridge Crawfish Festival - Breaux Bridge; Catfish Festival - Des Allemands; The Cochon de Lait - Mansura
The run in Soileau, Louisiana is one of the few Creole Courir de Mardi Gras in southwest Louisiana, and is thought to be just as old as the Cajun versions. The rural community of Soileau is located to the west of Duralde in Allen Parish, Louisiana not far from the Evangeline Parish, Louisiana line.
Lagniappe Bakehouse. Try the Galette des Rois during the first part of the season and the sourdough brioche in the second half. lagniappebaking.com, 1825 Euterpe Street. Ayu Bakehouse
Louisiana culture by city (7 C) A. Architecture in Louisiana (37 C, 2 P) Art in Louisiana (9 C, 1 P) Artists from Louisiana (9 C, 41 P) Atchafalaya National Heritage ...
Dancing in Congo Square, 1886. Mardi Gras Indians have been practicing their traditions in New Orleans since at least the 18th century. The colony of New Orleans was founded by the French in 1718, on land inhabited by the Chitimacha Tribe, and within the first decade 5,000 enslaved Africans were trafficked to the colony.
Mardi Gras arrived in North America as a sedate French Catholic tradition with the Le Moyne brothers, [3] Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville and Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville, in the late 17th century, when King Louis XIV sent the pair to defend France's claim on the territory of Louisiane, which included what are now the U.S. states of Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana.
The long-standing holiday tradition at the Friday Club's annual Thanksgiving pie sale keeps the baking tradition alive.