Done deal: An office building and property at 6721 Pecue Lane that was formerly home to a hiring center for The Brock Group has been sold for $800,000, according to land records filed Friday with the East Baton Rouge Parish Clerk of Court. Robert M. and Donna N. Brooks sold the property to MDS23 LLC, whose members are Michael D. DiVincenti III and Michael S. DiVincenti Jr. The property measures 60,020 square feet total, according to the sale documents.
Record roux: A team led by Louisiana lawyers set the Guinness World Record for the world’s largest pot of gumbo. The Courier reports the team led by Mandeville attorneys Arlen Braud and Michelle Gallagher set the record at 5,800 pounds at the Larose Civic Center on Saturday. The event was part of Major League Eaters’ World Record Gumbo Eating Competition. Gerald Danos helped build the pot which took about 700 hours to make. It was then filled with 1,500 pounds of shrimp, 500 pounds of crabs and 40 gallons of oysters and was consumed by the hundreds of visitors at the event. The previous record was set by Chef John Folse. His team cooked 3,710 pounds in 2010 and 4,000 pounds in 2013. But those records, unlike Saturday’s, had not been certified by Guinness. Read the full story.
Before the boil: Forecasters have thus far been calling for a wet, cold winter in south Louisiana, and that should bode well for the state’s crawfish industry. “It’s actually going to help us,” Iberia Parish crawfish farmer Stephen Minvielle tells The Advertiser. Like much of the state, south Louisiana faced a severe drought this summer. But steady rain over the past few weekends has helped offset potential damage to the crawfish crop. “If we hadn’t gotten these rainfalls in the last two weeks, we could have been in real trouble,” Minvielle says. According the Louisiana Crawfish Promotion and Research Board, the state’s crawfish industry generates more than $300 million a year. Read the full story.
