Cajun Hot - Out to Lunch - It's Baton Rouge

Our Cajun Creole heritage in south Louisiana is famous all over the
world. People come here for food, music, and historic architecture
they can t get anywhere else. And for those who can t get here, or
who want a taste of Louisiana once they get back home, we have some
crafty entrepreneurs who have figured out how to capture our local
culture, bottle it or box it and export it to folks outside
Louisiana. Troy Primeaux is the co owner of Primo s Peppers. It s a
company that grows several varieties of organic hot peppers which
it then sells to specialty food manufacturers not only in south
Louisiana but across the country for use in products like hot
sauces, spice blends and, even, coffees. Primo s also uses its
peppers in its own line, Farmer s Daughter pepper jellies, made by
Troy s wife and business partner, Kara Farmer. If you re part of
the international cult of pepperheads, which is quite a sizeable
group, you will recognize Troy or at least his name as the grower
of The Primo, the world s hottest pepper. As Troy explains to
Stephanie, a Jalapeno pepper is 5,000 Scovilles Scovilles being the
Farenheit of taste heat . Troy s Primo is 1.5m Scovilles. No
kidding. Another entrepreneur who is turning up the Cajun heat and
has figured out how to capitalize on Louisiana culture is Tara
Guidry, owner of Cajun Crate. Cajun Crate is a monthly subscription
that delivers specially curated boxes filled with Louisiana made
products. Each box contains a different array of homegrown products
like coffee, beignet mix, jambalaya, touff e sauce and much more.
Cajun Crate partners with chefs and tastemakers from Louisiana to
find the best products from around the state that to deliver to
subscribers. There are hyper local gems known only to inhabitants
of small Louisiana towns who are getting a break into a national
market thanks ot being included in Tara s Cajun Crate. Photos at
Mansurs on the Boulevard by Ken Stewart.

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