Natchitoches Meat Pies

At Natchitoches, a small town in central Louisiana, black locals used to sell meat pies from carts on the street till the authorities cracked down on food made outside commercial kitchens. Subsequently, a sharecropper and local butcher by the name of James Lasyone revived the tradition in 1966, the news spread, the world flocked to his eatery to sample the pies, and today Lasyone’s produces no fewer than two hundred thousand of the