Cajun Country Guide - Softcover

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Macon Fryís love for Cajun Country actually began years before he ever moved to Louisiana. A fan of rhythm and blues recordings, he began studying and collecting Cajun and Zydeco records while in school at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. He made several trips to Louisiana over the years before finally making the decision to call it home in 1980. Less than forty-eight hours after arriving in New Orleans, I found myself a bleary-eyed passenger in a packed car speeding across the Atchafalaya Throughway at 8 A.M. As the sun smoldered along the tops of the black willow and cypress, I looked down from the interstate at the blackness of the nationís largest freshwater swamp and pondered how different and beautiful South Louisiana was. Fry stayed in New Orleans teaching in public schools in Jefferson and Orleans parishes and began submitting articles to local magazines about his excursions into the bayous. He quickly found that even people in New Orleans, just outside of Cajun Country, were not as familiar with the lay of the land in Acadiana. Thatís when he decided to start compiling information for what would become Cajun Country Guide, an outsiderís guide to the sounds, tastes, and sights of South Louisiana. In 1990, Fry, with his coauthor and fellow travel writer Julie Posner, drove 20,000 miles through the Cajun prairie covering most of the highways and byways. They took every swamp tour, visited every dance hall, and ate at over half of the homestyle restaurants they passed. Fry continues to write a weekly column for Wavelength, a New Orleans entertainment magazine, and contributes articles to New Orleans magazine as well. His trips to Cajun Country have not stopped with the publication of his travel guide. Thereís still a chance that on a Saturday morning you might run across him in a small Acadian tavern, tapping his feet to the beat of a squeeze-box with a boudin sausage sandwich in one hand, and his camera in the other.

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EXPLORE CAJUN COUNTRY, a land of black coffee and bayous, steaming crawfish and swamps, and miles of sun-drenched prairie stretching along Louisiana's Gulf Coast from the great River Road to the Texas border.

Cajun Country Guide provides visitors with the most information on the best:

- Creole and Cajun restaurants serving roasted game, fresh seafood, jambalaya, gumbo, �touf�e, alligator sauce piquante . . .

- Rustic seafood joints, roadside caf�s, barbecue stands, and markets selling everything from boiled crawfish to Cajun beef jerky and boudin

- Cajun dance halls, tin-roof zydeco clubs, swamp-pop lounges, and restaurants where you can dance to the music of Cajun Country

- Swamp tours, gardens, hiking trails, alligator-and bird-watching spots

- Plantation tours, historic homes, small museums, and local craftsmen

- Bed and breakfasts, hotels, houseboat rentals, swamp cabins, and beach cottages

"Next to a wallet stuffed with greenbacks, this book may be the most valuable commodity for anyone exploring Cajun Country."
--The (New Orleans) Times-Picayune

"The authors take you to every run-down dancehall at the end of some unnamed road--where the bon temps really do rouler."

"A comprehensive guide to every shop, store, honky tonk, and food stand in the area."
--Touring America

"The most comprehensive guide to Cajun Country ever published."
--Juke Blues

"To call this book a labor of love is an understatement. Macon Fry worships at the shrine of Our Lady of the Authentic Down Home Experience. After perusing Cajun Country Guide you will want to join the congregation."
--Jazz Potpourri

Macon Fry and Julie Posner are freelance writers who live in New Orleans. Fry's features have appeared in publications including Louisiana Life, The Times-Picayune, and Gambit. Ms. Posner is the creator of the Louisiana Festivals and Events Calendar and the Louisiana Festivals and Events Guidebook.