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Summary: this guide's got the goods for music and dance hounds
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This book is a great guide to a significant number of the thriving hot spots for cajun and zydeco music and dance. Though that was my main interest, I also found myself visiting sugar plantions and found an excellent bayou tour and great places to stay and eat that are still very local in cultural feel as opposed to the more tourist oriented culture of New Orleans. I skimmed through 3 other guides tossed them aside and then kept this book at hand constantly while driving around the bayou country. I've been two years in a row to lafayette area and am going back again, and I still will have this guide close at hand as I plan and travel in cajun country.
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Summary: Outstandding Guide
Review: A buddy and I just finished touring Acadiana using this book, and were very pleased with the book. It is very thorough and reflects that the authors know the area extremely well. A tip - their statement that the raw oysters in Abbeville are the best in the world is absolutely correct.
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Summary: Outstandding Guide
Review: A buddy and I just finished touring Acadiana using this book, and were very pleased with the book. It is very thorough and reflects that the authors know the area extremely well. A tip - their statement that the raw oysters in Abbeville are the best in the world is absolutely correct.
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Summary: a bible for travelling thru cajun country
Review: I bought this book while in New Orleans for Jazz Fest. Having never really ventured out of the crescent city, this book was a god send. The next year, after reading the book from cover to cover, I travelled thru-out South West LA, before heading to Jazz Fest. I got to see and experience things I think I would have definitely missed with out this book (i.e. great restaurants, where to get the best boudin, great places for live zydeco, swamp tours, cheap cabin lodgings---just to name a few things). We even ventured down to Grand Isle. The book is great for its thorough research on the entire area. You can plan a great trip for cheap or travel in style. If you love the area as much as I do, it is necessary to own a copy of Cajun Country Guide. My '92 edition is so dog eared I am in need of the 2nd edition SOON!
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Summary: Great guide to Cajun country!
Review: I think the work put into this book is clearly reflected as you turn the pages. They went straight to the source and had Cajun people telling their stories about authentic Cajun lifestyles. Beautifully done! Hats off to Posner for capturing it just the way it is.
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Summary: Great guide to Cajun country!
Review: I think the work put into this book is clearly reflected as you turn the pages. They went straight to the source and had Cajun people telling their stories about authentic Cajun lifestyles. Beautifully done! Hats off to Posner for capturing it just the way it is.
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Summary: Great resource
Review: Spent several weeks in Cajun Country last winter with this book as our guide. Found a LOT of wonderful, out of the way places and experiences that we never would have known about otherwise. My New Orleans "born and raised" friends didn't even know about many of them. This is a wonderful area to visit -- we camped, but ate most of our meals out to really get the "local flavor" (I'm getting hungry just remembering). This book does a good job of describing all the local foods, too.Good directions to all the "little places" and good descriptions of what you'll find there. If you go to any of the dances (and you should!), be sure to call ahead and find out what the current start time is. In the Christmas season, try to catch one of the many "boat parades" on the bayous -- they're not listed in the book, but just ask around and people will tell you when and where.
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Summary: Great resource
Review: Spent several weeks in Cajun Country last winter with this book as our guide. Found a LOT of wonderful, out of the way places and experiences that we never would have known about otherwise. My New Orleans "born and raised" friends didn't even know about many of them. This is a wonderful area to visit -- we camped, but ate most of our meals out to really get the "local flavor" (I'm getting hungry just remembering). This book does a good job of describing all the local foods, too. Good directions to all the "little places" and good descriptions of what you'll find there. If you go to any of the dances (and you should!), be sure to call ahead and find out what the current start time is. In the Christmas season, try to catch one of the many "boat parades" on the bayous -- they're not listed in the book, but just ask around and people will tell you when and where.
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Summary: "A Cajun Michelin" says Texas Monthly.
Review: There's just nowhere else but South Louisiana to find real knee-slapping, crowd-hooting Zydeco music. Even the big-city chefs can't cook up a Cajun meal the way they do at the roadside restaurants deep in the bayous of Acadiana. Likewise, no other guide matches the amount of in-depth information presented in "Cajun Country Guide". It's a study of Cajuns that tells visitors how to find the sights, sounds, and flavors of one of America's most culturally unique regions. Take a vacation to a part of our own country that, in some places, didn't even speak English until nearly fifty years ago. While modern technology is weeding out some of the one-of-a-kind qualities of this subculture, not all of them are gone, or even hard to find, if you know how to hunt for them. And there are no better hunters than authors Macon Fry and Julie Posner. With the handy maps, reviews, and recommendations packed into the Cajun Country Guide, a trip to the bayous won't leave one feeling like a visitor, but more like a native who has come back home. Macon Fry is an educator and was a regular contributor to Wavelength magazine, in which his "Bayou Beat" column regularly offered observations on the sights and attractions of Cajun Country. Julie Posner also lives in New Orleans and is a former travel magazine editor.
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Summary: Well-written, quirky, and useful
Review: This well-written book was invaluable for our family's week in Bayou country. It has a dry humor ("on the Bayou, land is a recent occurrence..."). It covers geography, history, culture, and then gets into where to stay, where to eat, where to dance, what to see, and what to do. It's pretty up front (about one town -- "don't get hungry here..."). Everything we tried that was recommended in the book was great fun. One of the eateries was not so much wonderful as wonderfully different, but we were glad we went just as well. Some of the details are a little out of date, but I think that's due to their specificity. If you say that a tiny bakery makes sweet potato pies between 11-3 on Thursdays, but the one owner-baker decides to change to Wednesdays, there's not much to be done about that. Even so, that only happened once in the entire week. We had this book and the Delorme LA map, and that was a perfect set of resources for us. We had a great time, and I'm confident it was due to this book in particular. Highly recommended.
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