“Louisiana has an incredible diversity of outdoors to it—especially when it comes to wild pursuits like hunting and fishing—and it’s small enough for where it doesn’t take you long to get wherever you want. But my point is that the outdoors is so accessible, not just from a density of hunting and fishing but also logistically where things lie in the state; you can really find a place to hunt and fish anywhere.”
—JEAN-PAUL BOURGEOIS
Growing up in south Louisiana afforded me certain traditions that many folks would consider to be not just unique but a luxury. By “luxury,” I don’t mean monetarily expensive or lavish but luxury in the small, everyday moments, which, as a young man, I often overlooked and took for granted.
Hunting, fishing, trapping, and foraging often worked their way into my life through the homemade meals that graced our family’s dinner table on
