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World Championship Gumbo Cookoff
New Iberia, LA · Food & Drink
- When
- October 10–11, 2026
- Where
- Bouligny Plaza area, downtown New Iberia · New Iberia · LA
- Cost
- Not confirmed
- Status
- Confirmed from the organizer's published schedule
A competitive gumbo cookoff in downtown New Iberia produced by the Greater Iberia Chamber of Commerce, paired with a Meanest Beans contest and a Roux Run 5K. It holds its 35th edition in 2026.
The history within reach
- Louisiana Sugar Cane Festivalsame spot
Louisiana's official state sugar cane festival, held in New Iberia since 1937 with a parade, royalty court, and street fair tied to the annual cane harvest..
- World Championship Gumbo Cookoffsame spot
A competitive gumbo cookoff in downtown New Iberia produced by the Greater Iberia Chamber of Commerce, paired with a Meanest Beans contest and a Roux Run 5K.
- Shadows-on-the-Teche0.2 mi
A sugar planter's brick house on the bayou, kept by four generations and restored in the 1920s by a great-grandson who filled it with the family's own papers, some seventeen thousand documents covering the plantation, the people enslaved on it, and the Union occupation, which makes it one of the better-documented southern households anywhere..
The British had deported the Acadians from Nova Scotia ten years earlier for refusing an unconditional oath, breaking up families onto separate ships and scattering them along the Atlantic coast.
Plume hunters shooting snowy egrets off the nest for the hat trade had brought the bird close to gone from the Gulf.