Refreshments will be for sale. Cost is included in regular admission. RUE DE LA ROUX, Ascension Catholic School, Donaldsonville. Food fest hours are 8 a.m.-6 p.m. and includes an auction. More than 50 contestants will slug it out for the World Jambalaya Cooking Championship.
Festival features bands, food and dancing.
Hours are 10 a.m.-11 p.m. Celebrate the most popular Mexican-American holiday with New Orleans' Latincommunity. There will be Latin food and drinks, live music, dancing, arts and crafts andthe commemoration of Mexico's Battle of Puebla and the defeat of the French on May 5,1862. A street fais dodo kicks off the festival at the corner of Carver and Bridge streets,followed by a weekend of carnival rides, Louisiana cuisine, arts and crafts, crawfish eating contest. Translated, this is the annual garfish festival, a fund-raiser for the Sacred HeartChurch in Baldwin.