Avocado prices seem to fluctuate here from too expensive to not too bad. There probably is a California Avocado web site with all sorts of exotic recipes. If you really want to know about our food just come here and stand in the produce section of any grocery, put two items in your basket and at least three people will ask you how you are going to use them and offer you their recipes. Beware "cajun" recipes in magazines, they usually are awful and far from authentic.