A rooster vows he will not end up in the Mardi Gras community gumbo and warns the animals throughout Acadiana so they too can stay out of the pot. Includes recipe for Gumbo Z'herbes.

Two bright, well-educated misfits ended up running a Cajun hybrid restaurant on Milwaukee's working-class South Side in 1980. They were also a Canadian-American-blend couple who went beyond their "provincial" status to experience life and love in the 1980s. This book is full of escapades, foibles, and spectacular screwups, as these two nutty baby boomers write about their calamities in the restaurant business. These "cautionary tales" cover everything from crazed customers, dear and derelict employees, and culinary dreams and disasters. Original and delicious recipes that cover home cooking to authentic Cajun cuisine will keep you warm and smiling in these adventurous and hilarious tales of From Soup to Nuts.

Beyond Poetry: A Journey of Unmasking is about unmasking divided personal Self Consciousness revealing ONE Unified Consciousness and the final dawning of impersonal NONE from which arouse ONE to appear as many. Every mask along the way, Comes from thought that this or that sway. With no trace of words or sound, Absolute Silence can be found, With the reversal of these phrases, Creation emerges into many masks and faces. At the substratum of Existence, There is no resistance! Total spontaneous essence, Appearing as HERE & NOW presence!

In this variation on the traditional song, the narrator's aunt makes repeated trips to Louisiana, returning with a bag of red beans from New Orleans, gumbo from Thibodaux, peaches from Ruston, and so on. Includes sheet music plus facts about the places mentioned in the song.