Book- The Spirit of La Fonda | Lafayette Restaurant | Louisiana

The Spirit of LaFonda: Remembering the first 50 years of one of the South's finest Tex-Mex restaurants

A 196-page hardcover 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 Giordano. 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.

By Leebob Cox