America’s greatest Cajun journalist dies. Howard K. Smith was up there with Ron Guidry, Paul Prudhomme, Michael Doucet, Bobby Hebert, and Edwin Edwards in the modern Cajun pantheon.
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18 February | 13:32 | ColdChef
Edwin Edwards? Proper. My childhood dream was always to work my way up through the Louisiana system and become governor. Then, when I got caught with my hand in the cookie jar, I'd spend a few years in some posh minimum security resort, working on my memoirs. When I got pardoned, I'd retire to a Garden District mansion in New Orleans and live out the rest of my life as a legendary party guest. Ah, youth.
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