I would also recommend River broad Recipes for southern Louisiana/Cajun style cooking
Yes. He’s incredible. He does a great job of incorporating the German influence in his cooking.
And there are so many more. LA has so many James beard award winners and hundreds of thousands of people come here every year just to eat and enjoy our culture. OP can google that and come up with a ton of chefs that have published recipes.
Also - river road recipes is an amazing cookbook for the region. Produced by the BR junior league - lots of good basic/classic dishes.
https://www.amazon.com/River-Road-Recipes-Textbook-Louisiana/dp/0961302682
Look up the Baton Rouge Junior Leagues cookbook. This is it.
River Road Recipes: The Textbook of Louisiana Cuisine https://www.amazon.com/dp/0961302682/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_ja5CAb6B1ZJRX
They also make a second one as well as a third healthy options one.
All the best seafood recipes in one place. All the best sauces and meat recipes and desserts as well.
Gumbo, étouffée, jambalaya, mornay sauce, hollandaise, oyster baking styles, custards, meat pies, the list goes on forever.
This is a bit off topic but hands down every cook in Louisiana has the Baton Rouge Junior League home cookbook around. I know you might not WANT to eat a squirrel or raccoon, but you COULD. And everything else is delicious from the corn bread to the gumbo to the salads to the étouffée to the remoulade to the desserts to the roasts and the seafood boils.
River Road Recipes: The Textbook of Louisiana Cuisine https://www.amazon.com/dp/0961302682/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_EJDjAb47BJJC5
My grandmother used one called River Road Recipes. Here is the Amazon link.
The Cajun Ninja is a great Youtube cooking channel.
River Road Recipes: The Textbook of Louisiana Cuisine https://www.amazon.com/dp/0961302682/ref=cm_sw_r_apan_i_9FCHC3PWP1GV65NE714C
Talk About Good Cookbook https://www.amazon.com/dp/0935032029/ref=cm_sw_r_apan_i_KJHEXN1P7ATZXV1449HZ
I second the “River Roads Recipes” cookbook. I’m a big fan of community compiled recipe books.
Here’s a link: https://www.amazon.com/River-Road-Recipes-Textbook-Louisiana/dp/0961302682
River Road Recipes is a classic.
https://www.amazon.com/River-Road-Recipes-Textbook-Louisiana/dp/0961302682
For more basic/beginner, less pretentious/ambitious Louisiana recipes try
River Road Recipes or Talk About Good
These are tried and true recipes collected from the people who used them to feed their families, not from a professional chef. They were both originally published in the late 50s and are still in print today.
This is one that's popular back home in the New Orleans area. It was put out by the Junior League.They are available on amazon. River Road Recipes 1959 River Road Recipes II 1976