Writer documenting life in New Orleans 9th Ward. I'm eating 500 po boys at 500 different restaurants, gas stations, corner stores and cafes in New Orleans

Month: December 2024

A Recipe For York Peppermint Patty Cookies

A recipe for York Peppermint Patty cookies

I no longer earn my living as a baker but I still love the process of baking.

You can’t freestyle if you want to achieve consistency in your baked goods.

There are rules and precepts that must be adhered to if you’re going to be successful.

New Orleans Street Fashion: 2024 Big 9 Social and Pleasure Second Line

2024 Big 9 Social and Pleasure Second Line

It’s the second installment of New Orleans Street Fashion; our new weekly segment devoted to covering the chic and fashionable people we spot on the streets of the best city in the US.

The Backbone Of My Kitchen Is Homemade Pork Stock

The backbone of my kitchen is homemade stock. It’s what makes the difference between a decent enough cook and a deadly serious one. If you’re willing to take the time to make homemade stock you can seriously up your game in the kitchen.

I make two basic stocks: Chicken and Pork. Beef stock is another beast entirely. Easy enough to make in a professional kitchen but quite a difficult road to walk down in a normal home kitchen.

While I also enjoy making chicken stock from time to time, this formula relates to pork stock.

New Orleans Street Fashion: 2024 Prince of Wales Second Line

2024 Prince of Wales Second Line

New feature y’all. New Orleans street fashion. Tell us what you think.

Chocolate Gravy Is The Result of Spanish-Era Louisiana Traders Making Their Way To Appalachia

Louisiana is gravy country
Kentucky is gravy country.
Texas is gravy country.

As you traverse the upper end of the South, make your way down into Dixie and then head out west to the Great State, you’ll find dozens of regional variations on this simple, humble sauce. We pour it over our chicken fried steak, we fry up Jimmy Dean sausage and make a gravy that’s perfect for our biscuits; and a bowl of mashed potatoes served without gravy? That might just find the cook on the business end of a rusty shank. Gravy is serious business.

2024 Halloween Street Life In New Orleans

2024 Halloween Street Life In New Orleans

500 Po Boys: Majoria’s Commerce Restaurant

Scheduling a po boy lunch in downtown New Orleans on the first major Carnival weekend was not one of our more savvy moves. After circling through and around the Central Business District for a half hour we finally found a parking place. Somewhere near Lake Pontchartrain.

500 Po Boys: Singleton’s Mini Mart

RL Reeves Jr visits Singleton’s Mini Mart in New Orleans

The exodus started in spring 1975.

Following the fall of Saigon to the Communist North Vietnamese, 130,000 refugees were evacuated from South Vietnam.

Operation Frequent Wind, the largest boat and air lift in refugee history was a rousing success that would lead to 1.4 million Vietnamese émigrés resettling in the United States between 1975 and 1994.

Field Report: 2024 Dumaine St. Gang Social and Pleasure second line in New Orleans

2024 Dumaine St. Gang Social and Pleasure second line in New Orleans
2024 Dumaine St. Gang Social and Pleasure second line in New Orleans

We rolled upriver to the Treme neighborhood this past weekend to watch Dumaine Gang’s second line. This is what we saw:

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