Your Flavor: A Q&A with East Baton Rouge Parish Schools Superintendent Lamont Cole

For our 20th anniversary in 2025, we quizzed a group of well-known Baton Rougeans with a list of questions that harked back to one of our staple sections, “Your Flavor.”

Though this page has phased out of the magazine, we brought it back for our commemorative November 2025 issue with prompts themed around our big 20th milestone. Enjoy this updated version of 225′s Your Flavor series below.

Lamont Cole, Superintendent, East Baton Rouge Parish Schools

What were you up to at age 20?

Playing basketball at Nicholls State. I started games on the bench and ended games on the bench.

Favorite 225 cover or story over the years

The Future of BR, November 2019

Your vote for Best Overall Restaurant in the Best of 225 Awards

Delpit’s Chicken Shack, specifically the Acadian location

Favorite local spot or way to celebrate a birthday or anniversary

Red Stick Social

What’s Baton Rouge’s superpower?

Connectivity. Relationships run deep. That closeness builds a spirit of family, of looking out for one another and of celebrating together through every season.