hot tails & sacalait chefs/couple get new food network show

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Sam and Cody Carroll are returning to the place where it all began Saturday night to watch the premiere of their Food Network show, “Cajun Aces.” Louisiana Culinary Institute in Baton Rouge is where the New Orleans couple met, fell in love and embarked on their cooking adventure.

The LCI graduates will gather there with family and friends, along with staff and regular customers of their two restaurants, for a semi-private viewing party. The subject of the first episode, shot in June, is Louisiana crawfish.

“We’ll tell the story of that ingredient, go harvest that ingredient, cook at the family farm, go to Hot Tails and do more casual versions of that dish, and finish at Sac-a-Lait,” 34-year-old Cody Carroll says. “We tell all that story of harvesting and cooking.”

Hot Tails is the chefs’ first restaurant, which they opened in New Roads in 2010. Sac-a-Lait, located in New Orleans’ historic Warehouse District, followed in 2015.

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