These men learned it from their fathers and grandfathers, and they are teaching it to their sons. There are no shortcuts.
These men learned it from their fathers and grandfathers, and they are teaching it to their sons. There are no shortcuts. If it is not passed on, it dies.
A helping hand. You help at my boucherie this week, I help at yours next week, and everybody leaves with something.
Each family approaches the boucherie in its own way. The four men at the center of the film are also its executive producers.
Shane Boagni works the boucherie with his family in Plaisance. Sherman Boagni, who appears on the cover of the premiere program, is featured in the film alongside him.
The Boagni family boucherie was filmed on December 6, 2025.
Brice DeClouet of Carencro. The DeClouet family boucherie was filmed in December 2024.
At the DeClouet boucherie the other men showed up to work it too: Shane Boagni on the fryer with an elder, Jocorey Houston stirring the cracklins.
Jocorey Houston carries the boucherie of the Jones family. Mr. Leonard Jones Sr. is his grandfather.
“You gotta hold a crown before you can wear it.”Jocorey Houston, on what his grandfather told him
Dustin Cravins of Mallet. The Cravins family boucherie brings out the elders, the cracklin pot and the boudin machine.
These families are not simply participants. They are engineers, problem-solvers and teachers, building and adapting the tools the boucherie needs.
Much of that metal work runs through Webster “Web” Robertson, a combo welder in Opelousas and owner of Robertsons Welding & Fabrication. Web builds barrel pits and smokers, and his shop takes on any metal, big or small. In the shop, Web and the families work the metal side by side.
The Duhon and Zeno families make special appearances in the film. At the Zeno boucherie, the youngest hands are already at the pot.
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