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Dine Roundup: LSU hosts sushi-making leisure class, Louisiana Brand Hot Sauce sold

If you want to learn how to make your own sushi, LSU has just the leisure class for you. Stock photo.

LSU Leisure Classes will finish the spring semester with a sushi-making class, to be offered next week. The courses are open to the public and available for ages 10 and up and start Sunday, April 19, and Sunday, April 26, 3 p.m.-4:30 p.m. During the class, students can learn how to cook and prepare rolled sushi, or Maki Zushi, and pressed sushi, Nigiri. One of the university’s sushi chefs, Marie Hla, will lead the class. The class is $49, plus a materials cost of $25. To register and get more information, click here.

Original Louisiana Brand Hot Sauce sold to Georgia company
New Iberia-based Bruce Foods Corp. has sold the rights to The Original Louisiana Brand Hot Sauce and five other hot sauce brands to Rome, Georgia-based Southeastern Mills Inc. Terms of the deal—which was announced earlier this week and also includes all intellectual rights to Bruce Foods’ hot sauce business and its New Iberia manufacturing and warehouse facilities—were not disclosed.

Bruce Foods CEO J.S. “Si” Brown III says in a prepared statement that Southeastern Mills is a family-owned business that will be a good steward of The Original Louisiana Brand Hot Sauce and others included in the deal: Louisiana wing sauce, Red Rooster hot sauce, Louisiana Gold Pepper Sauce, Louisiana brand Tabasco Peppers in Vinegar and Bruce’s Tabasco Peppers in Vinegar. Read the full story.