Nobody warns you about Louisiana. They tell you about the jazz, the bayous, the Mardi Gras beads, but nobody sits you down and says: listen, you are going to eat something here that will make you question every meal you have had before this moment.
And you will not be ready for it. One bite in, and you are already Googling flight prices for your next visit before you have even finished your plate.
That is just what this state does to people. Louisiana has built a food culture so deeply personal, so aggressively delicious, that resistance is completely pointless…