My next vacation (beginning about 10 hours from now!) will be Hilton Head, but after reading some highlights from Chocolate & Zucchini's US Roadtrip, I'd love to go stay in Louisiana sometime, using their stories as a guide:You won't regret spending a bit of time in Breaux Bridge, Louisiana, one of our favorite spots of the whole trip. Walking around the pretty downtown, having an iced coffee at the Coffee Break, buying an old cake stand or a rusty roadsign from one of the American antique stores, then taking a boat tour of the swamps on Lake Martin to see the cypresses and the birds. Having dinner at Café des Amis (don't miss their gâteau sirop, drippy with cane syrup and studded with pecans) and a drink at Mulate's, to listen to the live Cajun band and marvel at the thousands of business cards pinned to the ceiling. Staying in one of the quaintly decorated Bayou Cabins (ours was called Miss Elise), indulging in fresh beignets for breakfast (closer to bugnes from Lyon than donuts), drinking your morning coffee on your very own back porch overlooking the Bayou Teche, and not forgetting your complimentary Cajun platter when you leave. Homemade boudin, cracklin (fried pork skin)[note: I would probably skip this; I'm not sure there is any way to make 'fried pork skin' sound appetizing], and spicy headcheese -- that will take care of lunch.
Comments