Lafayette chef appears on WGN today

Randol’s Restaurant owner Frank Randol of Lafayette is in Chicago today for an in-studio cooking demonstration on WGN. The segment will air at noon on the cable television “super station,” which reaches markets along the corridor. The theme is “Just in Time for Mardi Gras,” so Randol will provide cooking tips and recipes incorporated into a Mardi Gras party theme. The local chef plans to cook Oyster Rockefeller Soup and one other dish. This is the second time in six months that Randol will appear in the Chicago market to promote Louisiana seafood products. “I am passionate about our seafood,” Randol says. “We are still countering the negative press from last year’s oil spill and I am happy to do everything I can to spread the ‘good news’ about Louisiana seafood. There’s no better time than during the Mardi Gras season when the focus is on Louisiana.” Randol started a seafood wholesale business in 1971, buying Louisiana seafood and selling it nationally, and established a seafood processing plant in Henderson the next year. He opened Randol’s Restaurant in 1979.