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Christiaan Mader, Daniel Esteban, Mitzi Guidry, Out to Lunch

Vintage Churro

January 19, 2021

Amid the retail apocalypse glimmers of hope and rebirth with businesses like Daniel Esteban’s budding churro empire and Mitzi Guidry’s vintage fashion coffee shop Lilou

Terry Broussard, Christiaan Mader, Will McGrew, Out to Lunch

Francophone Van

January 12, 2021

The RV retirement generation has turned into the #vanlife millennial generation. In Louisiana it’s a Francophone van

That's hot. Out to Lunch Acadiana with hot pepper king Troy Primeaux and Cajun Crate Queen Tara Guidry

Cajun Hot

December 29, 2020

When it comes to spicy food there’s hot, Cajun Hot, and Primo Pepper Hot, arguably the world’s hottest. For all other Cajun food there’s Cajun Crate.

Aileen Bennett, Mark Hernandez and Daniel Barousse go Out to Lunch Acadiana

From Los Angeles to Louisiana

December 22, 2020

Louisiana shares the abbreviation “L.A” with the city of Los Angeles. That might be confusing on paper and online, how about IRL?

Out to Lunch Acadiana at The French Press

Return of Acadiana’s Wide World of Sports

December 2, 2020

As 2020 draws to a close, thankfully, we take a look back at Acadiana’s wide world of sports with stuntwoman Leigh Robson & boxing entrepreneur Christian Willeford

Lafayette Famous

November 24, 2020

Sydni Dupre from Lake Charles is TikTok famous with 300k+ followers, Rob Perillo is Lafayette Famous & John Merrifield is Lafayette infamous

School 2020

November 17, 2020

School 202 is unlike school in any other year. Bryan McDonald from edutech company Schoolmint and after-school’s Allison Brandon on Out to Lunch Acadiana

Christiaan Mader hosts Duson baker Brad Sonnier and Sonic mogul Ted Kergan on Out to Lunch Acadiana

Brad Sonnier’s Rolling Pin is a one man French pastry bakery in Duson Louisiana. Ted Kergan has 2,000 employees in his Sonic drive-in restaurants all across Louisiana. Brad and Ted meed on Out to Lunch Acadiana.

Christiaan Mader, Corey Jack, Terrica Smith

A Nation of Homeowners

November 3, 2020

The American Dream of being a nation of homeowners is more difficult to achieve for communities of color. I Acadiana Terrica Smith and Corey Jack are working to change that

Lake Charles 2020

October 20, 2020

Lake Charles was a boomtown, the envy of the Louisiana economy. Then it got hit by a pandemic and 2 hurricanes.