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Other popular dishes in the Cajun and Creole cuisines of Louisiana include crawfish étouffée, fried crawfish, crawfish pie, crawfish dressing, crawfish bread, crawfish bisque and crawfish beignets. [15] Faxonius limosus, boiled. In Houston, Texas, a regional style of Vietnamese-Cajun crawfish has developed. [16] [17]
Lake Pontchartrain from southbound causeway entrance Lake Pontchartrain's north shore at Fontainebleau State Park near Mandeville, Louisiana, in 2004. Lake Pontchartrain (/ ˈ p ɒ n tʃ ə t r eɪ n / PON-chə-trayn; [1] French: Lac Pontchartrain) is an estuary located in southeastern Louisiana in the United States.
Louisiana produces 100 million pounds (45 million kilograms) of crawfish per year with the red swamp and white river crawfish being the main species harvested. [20] Crawfish are a part of Cajun culture dating back hundreds of years. [21] A variety of cottage industries have developed as a result of commercialized crawfish iconography.
Louisiana's school voucher program is known as the Louisiana Scholarship Program. It was available in the New Orleans area beginning in 2008 and in the rest of the state beginning in 2012. [ 246 ] In 2013, the number of students using school vouchers to attend private schools was 6,751, and for 2014 it was projected to exceed 8,800.
The average household size was 2.73 and the average family size was 3.23. In the city, the population was spread out, with 30.1% under the age of 18, 10.7% from 18 to 24, 28.0% from 25 to 44, 19.0% from 45 to 64, and 12.2% who were 65 years of age or older.
The state of Louisiana itself actually had a direct impact on several early high school national crowns as the Louisiana Sports Association hosted a series of games at Tiger Stadium in Baton Rouge called the "National High School Championship" in 1938 and 1939, [222] the latter of which included an appearance by Louisiana's own Baton Rouge High ...
The average household size was 2.80 and the average family size was 3.17. In the parish the population was spread out, with 29.50% under the age of 18, 9.10% from 18 to 24, 31.50% from 25 to 44, 21.40% from 45 to 64, and 8.50% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 33 years. For every 100 females, there were 98.50 males.
The average household size was 2.60 and the average family size was 3.04. In 2000, there were 89,794 people living in the parish. The racial makeup of Lafourche was 82.85% White , 12.61% Black or African American, 2.30% American Indian and Alaska Native , 0.67% Asian , 0.02% Pacific Islander , 0.58% from other races, and 0.97% from two or more ...