Turtles - Lake Verret, LA (2015)
A Taste of Louisiana with Chef John Folse & Company
Details
Collection:LPB
Genre: Cooking
Place Covered: Lake Verret, Assumption Parish, Louisiana, Baton Rouge, East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana
Copyright Holder: Louisiana Educational Television Authority
Date Issued: 2015-06-29
Duration: 00:25:24
Subjects: Chefs | Food | Cooking, American -- Louisiana style | Cooking, Creole -- Louisiana style | Louisiana. Department of Wildlife and Fisheries | Barham, Robert J. | Cooking (Turtle) | Lake Verret (La.) | Folse, John D.
Contributors:
- Folse, John Host
- York, Michaela Producer
- Allen, Gary Producer
- Barham, Robert Guest
- Bass, Amity Guest
- Landry, Kerry Guest
- Luster, Janie Guest
Description
In this episode from the “Hooks, Lies, and Alibis” series of “A Taste of Louisiana” from June 29, 2015, Chef John Folse visits Lake Verret in Assumption Parish, Louisiana. He joins Amity Bass, a biologist with the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries (LDWF), as she traps and catalogs the lake’s population of alligator snapping turtles. Chef Folse and LDWF Secretary Robert Barham then prepare Turtle Sauce Piquante. Chef Folse then returns home to White Oak Plantation and cooks Turtle Stroganoff and Creole Turtle Soup with LDWF biologists Amity Bass and Kerry Landry.