Photos: Food show filmed downtown

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  • Ignatius Reilly's food truck worker Morgan Mitchener waits for a customer as a crowd, reflected in the mobile restaurant's Airstream trailer, grows during a taping of the MSN.com show 'Appetite for Life with Andrew Zimmern', the first big event to be held in the North Boulevard Town Square in downtown Baton Rouge Wednesday. The segment featured a jambalaya cook-off between two previous winners of the annual Jambalaya Championships in Gonzales.

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  • Advocate staff photo by RICHARD ALAN HANNONFood filmingAndrew Zimmern, of 'Appetite for Life with Andrew Zimmern,' is interviewed by local media Wednesday prior to the taping of his show in the North Boulevard Town Square downtown. For additional photos about the event, visit http://www.theadvocate.com.

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  • Food trucks and hungry downtowners dot the new North Boulevard Town Square in Downtown Baton Rouge Wednesday.

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  • Big-rig truck driver turned artist Christopher Turner of Baton Rouge does a 'live painting' in acrylics of the scene.

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  • Jambalaya cook Wayne Abshire of Gonzales stirs a steaming pot of jambalaya during a taping of the television show 'Appetite for Life with Andrew Zimmern'.

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