Chef de Cuisine Samantha Carroll laughs as her husband Cody is crowned the new “King of Louisiana Seafood” by last years winner Keith and Neely Frentz. Photo: Matthew Hinton/ The Advocate
by BY CHERAMIE SONNIER/Advocate Food Editor
Perseverance paid off for Executive Chef Cody Carroll, of Hot Tails Restaurant in New Roads.
Carroll, assisted by his wife, Samantha, wowed judges with his Louisiana Speckled Trout Perdu dish to capture the 2013 King of Louisiana Seafood title.
The New Roads chef had also participated in the 2012 Louisiana Seafood Cook-Off presented by the Louisiana Seafood Promotion and Marketing Board.
“Louisiana has some of the best seafood in the country and I admire all of the chefs participating today,” said judge Megan Murphy, a New York-based food writer, blogger, host and creator of ThisGirlCanEat.com. “Chef Carroll’s dish set the bar very high and I kept thinking of his dish throughout the competition.”
Carroll said he and his wife are co-owners of Hot Tails, which they opened in an old drive-through convenience store in New Roads three months after graduating from the Louisiana Culinary Institute in Baton Rouge. Samantha Carroll, who is chef de cuisine, made the calas and potato salad that went into the winning dish.
“Our executive sous chef is Owen Hohl, who went to culinary school with us from 2008 to 2010,” Cody Carroll added. Cody Carroll also is a graduate of LSU, where he majored in business management.
As seafood king, Carroll will act as ambassador and spokesman for the Louisiana seafood industry at events throughout the year.
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