Feeds
If my family were totally honest we would admit that food is our religion. It’s our most important pastime, our biggest obsession and greatest source of pleasure and strife. Food was the biggest reason our disparate clan put down roots in New Orleans, a place that has transformed food, drink and generally carrying on into high art.
Smiling with satisfaction, Earl Barthe pushes back his wide-brimmed hat and runs his eyes over the intricate plaster trim of the Luling Mansion.
The imperiled po'boy?A recent New York Times article starts off friendly enough, highlighting one of New Orleans’ celebrated dishes, the po’boy and the fairly new Po’boy Festival, but turns rather ominous as reporter John T.
This is Haiti, a state slaves snatched from surprised masters, its high lands, home of this world's sole successful sl …
The history of the Cajun people is a bittersweet tale that started in 17th century Canada. A group of French settlers colonized land in the area now known as the Maritime Provinces of Canada.
Some came in buses/ some came in cars/ we were all waiting in the dark/ during August and September of 2005/ there was so much rain/ so much pain/ it came inside my house/ bringing me down/ down on my knees/ on the floor/ on the grass/ out on the street/ all alone / …
Oh When CODEPINK Came Marching In (To New Orleans On Eve's V-Day)For my entire life - years before Hurricane Katrina - I fantasized about New Orleans. I dreamed of being decadent in the French Quarter in clubs where my music heroes played. I dreamed of tasting the food, studying the architecture, hearing the accents, and being cradled in t …
Palenquero: A tongue of African and Spanish RootsOn the surface it resembles any other impoverished Colombian village. But when adults here speak with one another, their language draws inspiration from as far away as the Congo River Basin in Africa.
Creole, Thai, French, down-home and soul: Biloxi restaurants offer golfers diverse menusMississippi Gulf Coast has a string of good golf courses, big fancy casinos and, believe it or not, excellent restaurants. You don't have to go all the way to New Orleans for great eats. Here are a few suggestions to chew on as you consider your golf trip to the Biloxi area.
Bois Sec Ardoin, Musician and Nurturer of Creole Tradition, Dies at 91Alphonse Ardoin, a Louisiana Creole accordionist and singer nicknamed Bois Sec whose music stalwartly sustained South Louisiana tradition, died Wednesday of natural causes in Eunice, La., where he had been living in a nursing home, said his son Morris. He was 91 years old.
Poetry Book Gets a BaptismEven books have godparents! The book's baptism, translated into Papiamentu as "boutiso di buki," is familiar in the United States as a book launch.
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