Food

Among the many things you can count on when you visit Louisiana, eating well may be at the top. If you haven't been here before, you have never eaten like this. Whether you have spicy boiled crawfish in Lafayette, seafood gumbo in New Orleans, southern barbecue in Monroe, good old-fashioned pecan pie in Alexandria, or a meat pie in Natchitoches, you'll quickly find that dining in Louisiana is more than a way to satisfy your hunger; it's a way to enjoy the bounty of Louisiana life. You may hear this saying as you travel around: In other places people eat to live, but in Louisiana we live to eat.