2025 Uptown Super Sunday Indian Party at Shakespeare Park
New Orleans has a thousand parties a year but there are only two that you have to experience no matter where you’re from, be it Mongolia or Shreveport: Mardi Gras Day and Uptown Super Sunday.
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One fatal flaw kept Jason Seither’s seafood joint out in Harahan from entering the rarefied arena occupied by po boy hard-hitters like Heard Dat Kitchen and Rampart Food Store.
You can’t hang with the New Orleans heavyweights if you don’t take the time to press the bread on a hot plancha for a few seconds. The Dong Phuong loaf was fresh but cold as a parson’s cupboard at Epiphany.
Cajuns, Rednecks, And Longhairs: Notes On The Celebration Of Life Music Festival in Point Coupee Parish, Louisiana
Instead it careered out of control with drownings, gunfire, and kids overdosing on methadone.
The list of possible origins of birria is longer than a Mississippi preacher’s Sunday sermon
Mexican folklore claims that the tiny western state of Colima on the Pacific ocean is where birria was invented in the 16th century.
Legend has it that a shepherd had to abandon his goats in a cave and flee for his life due to a volcanic eruption. When he returned he found his herd had been trapped and cooked by the molten lava.
Antoinette Frank, date of photo unknown
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.
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.