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LA SR71

Resolution

Status

Passed

5/5/2025

Primary Sponsor

Royce Duplessis

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Origin

Senate

2025 Regular Session

AI Summary

  • Louisiana Senate commends Lagniappe Bakehouse, a black-owned bakery in Central City, New Orleans, for being named one of the 22 best bakeries in the United States by The New York Times

  • Chef Kaitlin Guerin, a New Orleans native, founded the bakery in September 2024 with partner Lino Asana after starting a home-based bakery during the COVID-19 pandemic

  • Guerin named a finalist for the 2025 James Beard Award® for Emerging Chef

  • The bakery's signature "Vaucroissant" incorporates Creole hot sausage from black-owned Vaucresson Sausage Co., and offerings include benne seed toffee cookies honoring ingredients brought to the Americas by enslaved Africans

  • A copy of the resolution is to be transmitted to Chef Kaitlin Guerin

Legislative Description

Commends Lagniappe Bakehouse on being named one of the best bakeries in the United States by The New York Times and its' chef, Kaitlin Guerin, on being named a finalist for the 2025 James Beard Award for Emerging Chef.

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Last Action

Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate and sent to the Secretary of State by the Secretary of the Senate.

5/7/2025

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