Once a year we drive out to Des Allemands for the state of Louisiana’s finest fried catfish party. You will not meet a group of friendlier people in all of Acadiana than the congregants of the event’s host: St Gertrude the Great Catholic church where being kindly to strangers is just part and parcel of everyday life.

Oh, and the Louisiana Catfish Festival also chooses the most beauteous woman of St Charles Parish to be their queen. more