New Iberia Chez Jean Albert

Jean-Albert Landry, who turns 80 this year, holds a nice restaurant in downtown New Iberia. He has both spanish and french ancestors, and likes to speak a few words of french as soon as he can.

His wife Elaine works in the kitchen and that day prepared several "Croque Madame" for Fifi...

"I'm English", Elaine says, even if she has always been living in the US, brought up in Chicago... In Louisiana some people like to introduce themselves with their European origins. Jean-Albert told us that, as a kid, he was not used to speak french at home just because his parents fear he would be discriminated at school.