Spoon Foodie - Out to Lunch - It's Baton Rouge

Ryan Grizzafi is the owner of The Cajun Spoon, a four year old
company that makes healthful, easy to prepare box mixes of beloved
Cajun dishes like gumbo, etouffe and shrimp and grits. The Cajun
Spoon started out as a food truck in 2014, progressed to become a
catering business, and more recently has ventured into retail. To
stand out from other, established, Cajun dinner products, Grizzafi
s company has adjusted its recipes to make them healthier, so they
are low in sodium, use fresh, local ingredients and contain no MSG
or artificial flavoring. The Cajun Spoon also has a higher mission
for everyone box sold, the company donates one meal to the local
food bank. It also donates part of its proceeds to a scholarship
fund at the LSU Ag Center. Sean Rivera is a food entrepreneur, chef
and partner in several restaurants. He s also an advocate for
foodies and chefs in Baton Rouge. Sean has a social media brand,
Foodie Patutie, which has some 150 thousand followers on Twitter
and Instagram. He s also created a Chef s Guild, Gastreauxnomica,
and is a brand ambassador for the growing Rouses Supermarket chain.
But, believe it not, those are all side gigs. Sean s bread and
butter comes from a couple of bar and restaurants he owns,
including Driftwood Cask and Barrel downtown, Coquille s River and
Rye in Madisonville, and this fall, he plans to open a restaurant
in The Myrtles in St. Francisville. Yes, food is still big business
is South Louisiana, and just when you think you ve heard it all,
along comes a new generation of food entreptreneurs. Stephanie
Riegel talks with Ryan Grizzafi and Sean Rivera over lunch at
Mansurs on the Boulevard in Baton Rouge.

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