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Blue Dog Café: Chef Ryan Trahan
Chef Spotlight By Karla Wall When Ryan Trahan, new head chef at Blue Dog Café in Lake Charles, took over the position a couple of months ago, he had a clear philosophy and mission.
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Death By Drugs: The Opioid Crisis In SWLA A Lagniappe Magazine Roundtable NOTE FROM DR. MICHAEL KURTH This feature is the second of my three-part series on the opioid crisis. In the first
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Chef Vilavong Prasith Of Asia At L’Auberge By Karla Wall L’Auberge’s Asia restaurant offers a wide variety of dishes from some of the most flavorful cuisines in existence — Japanese sushi, Vietnamese pho, Korean
Read More »Brown Bag Café: Chef Chris Wise
Chef Chris Wise has spent over 25 years in the culinary industry; he held his first cooking job, in fact, when he was only 15. He went on to work at restaurants across the
Read More »Bugging Out
Non-Native Species In SWLA Are Causing Environmental, Economic Problems By Karla Wall Invasive, or non-native, species are those that, as the name implies, aren’t part of a region’s normal ecosystem but are introduced from
Read More »Chicken And Andouille Sauce Piquante
Chef Lyle Broussard • By Karla Wall Lyle Broussard, room chef at L’Auberge’s Jack Daniel’s Bar and Grill, grew up around food and cooking, as almost all chefs do. His great-grandmother owned a local
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Bad Apple Saloon chef Jerrett Overmeyer has made a name for himself in area culinary circles with his outstanding bar food. A self-taught cook, Overmeyer began his career as cook and co-owner of Twisted
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Chef Brock Granger’s Braised Chicken With Mustard And Olives By Karla Wall Chef Brock Granger, room chef at Ember Grille and Wine Bar in L’Auberge, is a SWLA native farm-boy through and through. Raised
Read More »Elevating The Ordinary
Home Appétit – Chefs At Home: Amanda Cusey By Karla Wall Chef Amanda Cusey Of The Villa Turns Scrambled Eggs And Toast Into A Rich, Decadent Yet (Fairly) Healthy Breakfast How do you take
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Chefs At Home: Sammi Chloun • By Karla Wall A Mediterranaean Jambalaya Chef Sammi Chloun Of Toga Grill Shares His Recipe For The Ancient Mid-Eastern Dish Mujadara Order any dish off of the menu
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