Awards:
Lone Star Award - First Place - Print News or Feature Story
Houston Press Club
For "Moms Gone Wired" in Dallas Observer
Best of Big D 2012 - Best Columnist
D Magazine
"The James Beard Foundation Awards are the Oscars of food writing. Last year, Laussade was a finalist in the humor division for her deliciously bawdy Dallas Observer column. We searched long and hard (she would make a joke about that) for an excerpt we could print. Here it is: “What? You’re judging China Mex for combining Chinese food and Mexican food and then also being relatively lazy with the restaurant-naming thing? I’m not. In a town filled with restaurants named The Porch and Stephan Pyles that don’t even serve the porches or the Stephan Pyleses on their menus, China Mex’s name has that doughnut-shop-named-Donuts comfort to it.”" - D Magazine
James Beard Nomination 2011
James Beard Foundation Awards
Category: Journalism/Humor
Feature: "OK, Who Put Food In My Beer?" - Dallas Observer
http://www.dallasobserver.com/2010-09-16/news/the-2010-big-tex-choice-awards-fries-up-a-new-batch-of-artery-clogging-eats-beckoning-state-fair-goers-to-come-and-get-their-grease-on/
James Beard Nomination 2013
James Beard Foundation Awards
Category: Journalism/Humor
Feature: "The Cheap Bastard's Ultimate Guide to Eating like a Total Cheap Bastard in Dallas" - Dallas Observer
http://blogs.dallasobserver.com/cityofate/2012/04/the_cheap_bastards_ultimate_gu.php