Turn Louisiana's boudin sausage into drive-worthy experience

Sunday, January 31, 2016

SCOTT, La. -- Want a true taste of the real Louisiana? You'll want to get behind the wheel and head out of New Orleans and off into the cypress swamps and rice paddies of Cajun country. Because that's where you'll find scores of mom-and-pop meat shops and convenience stores preserving a hundreds-year-old tradition of some very special sausages known as boudin. And you'll be glad you did.

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