2025 Krewe De Boo Halloween Parade
I had resigned myself to missing the 2025 edition of the Krewe de Boo Halloween parade as New Orleans was socked in with the first rain storm we’d had since August. Then, as life on the Gulf of Mexico often does, the clouds parted and the city was bathed in sweet sunshine. Time to motor up to the French Quarter for one of our town’s best parties of the years. This is what I saw
American Association of Meat Processors, American Cured Meat Championships
A total of 76 meat companies submitted 873 products across 30 different classes at the American Cured Meat Championships [est. 1949]
I’ve been in the cured and smoked meat game since the late ’80s. I am a charcutier but in no way on these gentlemen’s level. Give me another 20 years of practice.
This shootout is the Superbowl if you’re in the meat scene or meat adjacent.
Strick’s Specialty Meats in nearby Hattiesburg took home two Grand Championships. Otherwise the old south that we love was blanked out.
Here are the winners:
Mexican Green Spaghetti party at Tamale House East in Austin, Texas
2025 marks Tamale House restaurant’s 67th summer serving Tex Mex to friends and neighbors in Austin, Texas.
Saturday June 14th, 2025 at 7pm the East Austin mainstay rolls out their brand new menu item: Green Spaghetti aka Espagueti verde.
All of the regular menu items like Texas-sized tamales, “best in the the city” fish tacos, chile con queso and frozen margaritas will be on offer as well.
Look forward to seeing y’all.
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
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.
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
“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.
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?
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