Louisiana’s Rarest Breakfast Is Couche-Couche and Only One Place Still Serves It the Old Way

You have probably never heard of couche-couche. That is not your fault.

This Louisiana breakfast dish, a simple mix of cornmeal fried in bacon grease until golden and crispy, has nearly disappeared from restaurant menus across the state.

Once a staple of Cajun and Creole tables, especially during lean times when eggs and meat were scarce, it is now something that most people only remember from their grandparents’ kitchens…

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