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Rouses Means Local innovation

A Few of the Gulf Coast’s Famous Foods Think you know local foods? Well, buckle up, because we’re about to race down the grocery aisles!

moved to its current location in Gonzales, Louisiana, where all its products are still produced today ...

farmers. The business expanded and Dutch moved Double D Sausage to a new location on Highway 21 just south of Bogalusa, Louisiana ...

Founded in 1928 in New Iberia, Louisiana, Bruce Foods has been manufacturing original Cajun condiments and seasonings for more than 90 years ...

At the age of 21, Lonnie Richard

Tabasco brand products are made by the McIlhenny Company, founded by Edmund McIlhenny in

bought a delivery truck to take his grandmother’s Cajun specialties to stores in Acadia and neighboring parishes. Today Richard’s Cajun Foods offers two brands of sausages and a complete line of prepared Cajun favorite entrées … Oak Grove Smokehouse introduced their Jambalaya and Gumbo mixes in 1975...

1868 on Avery Island, Louisiana ...

The recipe and smoking

Emile A. Zatarain

technique for Veron’s Sausages are faithful to the originals used by founder J.P. Veron in 1938 in his backyard meat market in Gramercy ...

introduced his signature root beer in 1889. Mustards and pickled vegetables would soon follow, and the company would really get going in its diversification when they added spices, seafood boils, fish fries, rice mixes and frozen favorites ...

Tony Pizzolato established Louisiana

Fish Fry Products in 1982. He started with fry mixes, then expanded to base mixes for Louisiana favorites like jambalaya and étouffée, followed by seafood boil, sauces and gravy mixes ...

Mam Papaul’s Original New Orleans Style Entrée Jambalaya Mix was introduced in 1972 ...

Steen’s syrup has been made by the Steen family since 1910 in Abbeville, Louisiana, at the C.S. Steen’s Syrup Mill ...

Brothers

Zapp’s put out Cajun Crawtators way back in 1985. It was the nation’s first spicy potato chip ...

Vincent, John and Bennie Manda combined their Sicilian background and Cajun influences to create their uniquely flavored smoked sausages in 1947. Today Manda Fine Meats is owned and operated by three of Vincent Manda’s grandsons …

Conrad Rice Mill , America’s oldest operating rice mill, was founded in 1912 and is still going strong in New Iberia ...

Big Easy Foods is a relative newcomer on the sausage scene. The company introduced their first two products — smoked sausage and boudin — just over a decade ago … Are you hungry yet? 55 WWW.ROUSES.COM

Blue Runner Foods got

Tillman “Dutch” Stogner, Sr., moved his family from

going on its famous foods back in 1918, when the Union Canning Company started canning fresh fruits and a variety of other items. In 1946 the company

New Orleans to the tiny town of Sun, Louisiana in 1967 to open a butcher shop, where he did custom processing for local

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