To best understand a people and place, look to the foods they eat on the run, those iconic handheld meals—quick, »lling, portable, and tasty. In Lafayette and the surrounding towns and parishes of Acadiana, that fast food is boudin. Simply and affectionately referred to as “links,” boudin is roughly a half-pound, half-foot length of sausage available for purchase in nearly every local meat market, grocery store, and gas station. A perfect way to explore the region is to try one boudin after another, link after steaming hot link, to form a chain that connects, or literally links, the Cajun prairie towns to the Creole bayou communities.
Though the recipe is uncomplicated—pork, rice, seasonings, and spice stuffed into an edible casing—each and every boudin is unique in texture and taste.
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