Category: History/Food/Art

Title: The Spirit of La Fonda

Subtitle: Great food, fun and friendship: Remembering the first
50 years of one of the South’s finest Tex-Mex restaurants

Author: Leebob Cox

Publication Date: December 2007

Price: $34.95, hardcover

ISBN-13: 978-0-925417-58-9

ISBN-10: 0-925417-55-6

No. of Pages: 196

No. of Color Photographs: 73

No. of B&W Photographs: 22

No. of Color Illustrations: 55

No. of B&W Illustrations: 20

Published by:
Acadian House Publishing

Distributed by:
Baker & Taylor
Forest Sales & Distributing
Ingram Book Co.

Contact: Trent Angers, Jon Russo

Phone: (337) 235-8851

Email: info@acadianhouse.com

Synopsis:
A book describing the 50-year history and culture of the venerable La Fonda Restaurant in Lafayette, La., one of the state’s most popular eating establishments. The book is also an autobiography of the restaurant’s founder and owner, Leebob Cox, and a showplace for the art of Luis Amendolla and Phyllis Malzyk Giardano. It carries numerous stories about La Fonda’s longtime employees and customers, as well as anecdotes of the variously zany and heartwarming goings-on in this fine Tex-Mex eatery.

© 2007 Acadian House Publishing