Jerald Horst was a professor of fisheries at Louisiana State University for more than thirty years. He is a member of the Louisiana Chapter of the American Fisheries Society. Horst lives with his wife in Franklinton, Louisiana.

Glenda Horst was born and raised in Bayou Sorrell, Louisiana, a small commercial fishing community on the edge of the Atchafalaya Basin. The daughter of a commercial fisherman, she learned the basics of Cajun cooking from her mother and enjoys passing them on.