The marshy interior of southern Louisiana is home to a cuisine, language and sound all its own. Today, Cajun and Zydeco music, often sung in French, is enjoying a renaissance.

The holiday weekend stretched out before us, and we had not a single plan on the books. Road trip! We headed straight to Cajun Country. My husband and I had been before - last year, in fact ...

VACHERIE, La. — After 10 glorious days of meandering through southwestern Louisiana bayou country, my husband, Paul, and I are having a bad case of Cajun withdrawal. The symptoms are cravings ...

Couples spin and turn, rocking back and forth, swinging apart and then dipping close. An accordion alternates its pumping pulse with a funky bass riff forcing your shoulders to jump in time to the ...

Back in 1991, when Cajun was all the rage and people were eating blackened everything, washed down with zydeco and two-step dancing, I went looking for the authentic heart of Acadiana. It was a won… ...

In southern Louisiana, where oil means wealth, the economy is dismal. But, at the risk of offending the people who live here, their relative poverty becomes them. Today, they talk less about oil an… ...

T here's no better American cuisine to show off the country's melting pot status than Louisiana's. The Cajun people, ...

Cajun country is filled with treasures, but they come in limited quantities. Below, our picks for a four-day getaway. THURSDAY Don't miss the spicy sausage stew special at Poche's Market & Restaurant.

Chef Karlos Knott of The Cajun Saucer in Arnaudville has been named the 2025 King of Louisiana Seafood. Knott defeated 11 ...

Lafayette, La., in the heart of Cajun country, requires but one contribution from its visitors: a healthy appetite. For this swampy sliver of southern Louisiana is our nation's epicenter of Cajun ...

This woman believes the "Cajun diet" can be healthy. “There's space for us to be able to still enjoy our culture, but we need to also balance that with other lifestyle aspects." ...

La. spillway to open, flooding Cajun country. May 13, 2011. In a May 12, 2011 photo, circle irrigation system looks like a bridge span from the distance on the underwater soybean crop of Brett ...