Louisiana Food showing on a Wooden table

Year of Food 2025

Welcome to the Year of Food, a celebration of Louisiana's rich culinary traditions and flavors. 

Whether you’re savoring a beignet or warming up with a bowl of gumbo, Louisiana dishes are equal parts comfort and sophistication, featuring seasonal ingredients and timeless recipes handed down for generations. Ready to dive spoon-first into Louisiana's food culture?

Louisiana Cuisine

Louisiana's Cuisine

In Louisiana, you taste culture in every bite, and it’s a culture you won’t find anywhere else. With deep roots in French, Spanish, African, Italian, Caribbean, Irish, German, and Indigenous traditions, our cuisine has blended diverse influences until they’ve become inseparable. Coming together in unexpected ways to form utterly unique traditions, the cuisine of Louisiana is a world of its own.

Year of Food: Region Map

Food By Region

Whether it’s fine dining or home cooking, our food has always been an irresistible beacon for travelers. And with as many different dishes as there are parishes in Louisiana, every region has a specialty worth tasting. From New Orleans to Shreveport, Baton Rouge to the bayou, explore the seasons, regions, and secret recipes that bring people from near and far to dine at our tables.

A guy enjoying Gumbo at a picnic table with friends

The History of Gumbo

Gumbo is as integral to Louisiana’s culture as jazz music and Mardi Gras. Eaten in restaurants and simmered on stovetops across the state, everyone’s idea of a perfect gumbo is different. But whether you flavor with filé, stir in seafood, or spice it up with sausage, there’s no denying this dynamic dish brings us together — and encapsulates the unique history of Louisiana. With French-inspired roux, West African okra, Choctaw filé, and a dozen other distinctive additions, gumbo tells a story of migration and cultural exchange, resulting in a delicious bowl of food history that’s still evolving today.

Louisiana Food Gallery

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