Texas chili man John Billy Murray, 1988.
Back in 1984, Murray traveled ten hours from his home in Humble to the Original Terlingua International Frank X. Tolbert-Wick Fowler Memorial Championship chili shootout deep in the heart of Big Bend country.
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Last week we were up in Kentucky hanging out in a slaughter house when we noticed a big hog’s head sitting on the meat-cutter’s work bench. He offered it up to us and we immediately began plotting what we would do with this animal’s lovely noggin.
Four hours over a Hickory fire found the head to be sufficiently cooked but we needed stock so we wedged the head down into our big Kuhn Rikon pressure cooker and put it on low bars for three hours til the meat was like butter and the jaw had completely separated from the head.
Cowboy’s 4th Annual Treme Gumbo Pop Up at Little People’s Place
There will be roasted duck/chicken/DD hot sausage gumbo, Louisiana rice and fresh French bread on the menu alongside a fully stocked bar of spirits, cold beer and wine.
Cash Bar and Cash Food
Free admission
$12 regular size gumbo
$15 Cajun-size gumbo
New Orleans legend DJ Seprock will be spinning old-school New Orleans r&b, soul and hip hop vinyl.
Little People’s Place is one of the most important bars in the Deep South; the oldest barroom in the Treme neighborhood, and one of the last juke joints in the state of Louisiana.
1226 Barracks Street, New Orleans, Louisiana, 70116
Field Report: 2025 CTC Steppers Social and Pleasure 9th Ward Second Line
We rolled with the 2025 CTC Steppers Social and Pleasure club on their 9th Ward second line yesterday. This is what we saw:
Larry Thompson Jr is the undisputed fried shrimp po boy king of New Orleans. Now he is also the undisputed king of the seafood boil.
Six cop cars are surrounding a beat-up Chevy with a couple tattooed crackers sitting in the front seats. Coppers have tactical weapons out and are yelling at the car’s occupants. My lunch spot, where the rumpus is taking place, has lost its appeal so I motor on downriver, and deeper into the lower 9th Ward.
Telly Hankton
His prisoner number is #589293.
Mr. Hankton became public enemy number one when New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu held a press conference decrying the murder of bar manager Curtis Matthews at Jazz Daiquiri bar on South Claiborne Avenue in October of 2011.
The mayor staged the presser on the neutral ground of Claiborne Avenue, one of the busiest thoroughfares in the city.
Pableaux Johnson hard at work shooting a second line in Central City, New Orleans.
Shanghai Jimmy James Skaliski in 1976
“There was this beer sop Meskin food place called Shanghai Jimmy’s, and if we didn’t eat there two night a week our faces would break out…” said Sherrod.
Sherrod’s words became part of the lore of Shanghai Jimmy’s Texas Chili Rice.
Editor’s note: This post is from the ‘before-times.’ Orange Store is now a head shop that sells giant bluetooth speakers and dabbles in nearly-inedible po boys.
I was trying to save this report for much later in my 500 po boys series.