RL Reeves Jr Recipe: Funky Hot Vietnamese Collard Greens With Fried Green Onions
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The 2025 Valley of Silent Men Social and Pleasure Second Line parade marked the beginning of the fresh second line season. Hearts were a bit heavy as this is the first season we will experience without the singular Pableaux Johnson who was felled by a heart attack in January of this year.
Here were our favorite photos from the Valley shoot.
2025 Valley of Silent Men Social and Pleasure Second Line
2025 Valley of Silent Men Social and Pleasure Second Line
2025 Valley of Silent Men Social and Pleasure Second Line
2025 Valley of Silent Men Social and Pleasure Second Line
2025 Valley of Silent Men Social and Pleasure Second Line
The foodways of Alabama barbecue are second only to Texas for their primacy in the world of USA smoked meats. When I was a teenager growing up in Birmingham I raced across the state on my Honda Interceptor motorbike trying as hard as possible to eat from every smokehouse in the Yellowhammer state.
RL Reeves Jr Recipe: Oven Roasted Carnitas
It was a family reunion, puro la raza, and I was the only gringo there. The tias and abuelitas were gathered in the kitchen making all the tortillas, rice and beans from scratch but I had been entrusted with the carnitas.
Here’s how I became, as they put it, an honorary Mexican
2025 Satchmo Summerfest Second Line
If you were in New Orleans in the late 70s you were living in a Baby Doll desert. By my count we had less than five ladies masking and the tradition was in danger of becoming extinct. In the ensuing 45-plus years we’ve seen dozens if not hundreds of women embrace the custom, form their own Doll Houses, and take to the streets to shimmy, shake, and show out.
L’Association du sauvegard de l’oeuf mayonnaise
RL Reeves Jr Recipe: Carroll Shelby Texas Chili With Ground Turkey
The underground economy in New Orleans is still thriving. I did a friend a nice favor recently and in exchange he gifted me a three pound packet of Jennie O ground turkey.
A Recipe For Couche Couche
Up in Appalachia it’s called cornmeal mush but the backbone of the dish is identical.
You fry up a pan of cornmeal batter in bacon drippings, and as it’s setting up you take a wooden spoon and stir it around a bit til it’s all crispy bits mixed with soft white bread.
A Recipe For Homemade 7UP With Stevia
