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2025 Scrumptious Chef New Orleans Gumbo Pop Up at Tamale House in Austin, Texas

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15th Anniversary Scrumptious Chef Gumbo Pop Up. Austin, Texas

New Orleans-based RL Reeves Jr aka Scrumptious Chef travels to Austin, Texas from southeast Louisiana for the 15th annual edition of his New Orleans Gumbo Pop Up.”

There will be roasted duck gumbo, crawfish etouffee, shrimp fondeaux, bread pudding with rum sauce and a tightly curated list of New Orleans cocktails including frozen daiquiris.

Gypsy jazz band Scrapelli will be performing on the Tamale House stage for the event.

15th Anniversary Scrumptious Chef New Orleans Gumbo Pop Up

Sunday, January 19th, 2025

5:30 pm

Tamale House East
1707 e. 6th st.
Austin, Texas 78702

A Guide to Making the Best Scrambled Eggs You Will Ever Put in Your Mouth

It seems so simple. Crack a couple eggs, throw them in a pan, scramble them around for a few minutes and a meal is at the ready.

But like most things in life, attention to the small details often gains one big rewards.

Scrambled eggs are a prime example. They can be transcendent when treated properly by a skilled cook. In my life as a chef, I’ve cooked thousands of eggs. I’ve worked for two very busy breakfast houses where it was not uncommon to go through several hundred per shift. Yet I still love cooking eggs.

Here’s my recipe for the best scrambled eggs you will ever put in your mouth.

The Howard Johnson Killer: Notes On The Life And Death Of Mark Essex

“It’s unbelievable, diabolical, maniacal.”

That was the Reverend Peter Rogers, New Orleans police chaplain, responding to the wild violence in New Orleans during the first week of 1973.

Field Report: Funerary Second Line Treme Brass Band Saxophone Man John ‘Prince’ Gilbert

Funerary Second Line Treme Brass Band Saxophone Man John ‘Prince’ Gilbert

John ‘Prince’ Gilbert carried out of Charbonnet Labat Glapion Funeral Home to be taken to his final resting place.

My Head’s In South Carolina: How To Make Hoppin’ John

How to make Hoppin' JohnGrowing up in the Cumberland Highlands of Eastern Kentucky, the Atlantic ocean seems a million miles away.

So it’s with a certain fever that I make my way to Litchfield Beach, South Carolina (immediately procuring a mauve Panama Jack shirt and custom made French Foreign Legion hat emblazoned: “Bod Squad” ) as a 16 year old lad eager to see the world.

Who Remembers Coffee Partner?

Coffee Partner

Once upon a time the grocery stores in New Orleans all had Coffee Partner on their shelves. If I recall, it was packaged pure ground chicory and was used to enhance the flavor of ordinary to below average coffee beans.

It has now disappeared. It’s no longer at Canseco’s, Rouse’s, Robert’s or any of our normal haunts.

Who remembers Coffee Partner?

A Deeper Understanding Of Joel Robuchon’s Mashed Potatoes

A Deeper Understanding Of Joel Robuchon’s Mashed Potatoes

When it comes to pommes purée, Joel Robuchon is king. Author Patricia Wells, speaking on the chef, said “He realized early on that if you give people potatoes, potatoes and more potatoes, they’ll be eternally grateful, forever fulfilled,”

The reason our crew gets out of bed in the morning is to fulfill the eaters of New Orleans; y’all are our people.

500 Po Boys: Chef Meg Bickford’s Parade Route Favorite at Commander’s Palace

rl reeves jr visits Commander’s Palace for his 500 po boys series

The most famous and influential chef in the history of the American South served a lengthy stint at Commander’s Palace back in the 70s. Paul Prudhomme, a native son of St. Landry Parish, Louisiana, was hired to run the kitchen in 1975 and before long the old-line Creole restaurant had turned into something of a Cajun hotplate joint.

Ex-New Orleans Police Officer Len Davis Was The Terrorist of Desire

Len Davis

Len Davis was a cold-blooded killer, a bodyguard to drug traffickers, and most importantly, a New Orleans police officer with such a fearsome reputation that he was known as “the Desire Terrorist,” an appellation he earned by cracking skulls and robbing drug dealers in the Desire Projects of New Orleans 9th Ward.

Rest In Peace: John “Prince” Gilbert

John “Prince” Gilbert

We ran into John “Prince” Gilbert during Carnival season earlier this year in the Marigny neighborhood of New Orleans. The old saxophone legend broke ground back in the 90s with Rebirth Brass Band and has played with the titans of jazz for over 40 years.

The word legend gets thrown all over the place these days but Prince earned the right to be called just that.

He passed away last week.

Rest in peace king.

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