1.   The thatched restaurant offers a splendid selection of international and local creole dishes.

2.   Coconut Rice Balls is a Creole dish.

3.   Crawfish, freshwater crustaceans that are used in jambalaya, etouffee and all manner of other Creole dishes, used to come almost exclusively from Louisiana.

4.   As a child, Claiborne was close to the cooks who helped his mother and he often ate their biscuits, fried chicken, greens and some Creole dishes.