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Yearly Archives: 2017

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Walk on the Wild Side

Walk on the Wild Side

Americans have a curious and often tongue-in-cheek relationship with pigs. We love them! Northerners because the pot belly ones are fine pets. Southerners because their bellies, and ribs, and just about all of the animal are fine on plates. We...

October 9, 2017 Pepper Roussel Feral Hog, Invasive Species, Wild Boar 0 Comments
Tradition: It’s What’s for Dinner

Tradition: It’s What’s for Dinner

Did you ever wonder why New Orleans Mondays are inextricably linked to red beans and rice dinner? Tradition. Way back when, Monday was wash day. And if you have only ever seen a picture in history books, let me confirm your suspicions: those old...

September 9, 2017 Pepper Roussel Food Culture, Red Beans and Rice, Trinity 0 Comments

Why Food Policy?

As implausible as it may seem, nearly all of my conversations somehow involve food. The subject can be as complex as environmental injustice subtly depriving people of color of ready access to fresh fruit and vegetables. Or it may be as simple as...

August 9, 2017 Pepper Roussel Food Policy 0 Comments

You can’t take the culture out of food…

My absentee father passed away when I was 8 years old, and the only family I knew came from my mother’s side. My mother grew up in New Orleans but had “people” in the heart of Acadiana – that is specifically Opelousas and...

June 9, 2017 Pepper Roussel Food Culture, Food Traditions 0 Comments

Gentrification: Food as Accessory, not Necessity

Dwayne Boudreaux, owner of Circle Food Store, said his old customer base is gone. Re-opened eight years post-Katrina, Circle Foods, the first African-American owned full service grocery store in New Orleans[i], is now facing challenges...

May 30, 2017 Pepper Roussel Circle Foods, Culinary Appropriation, Food Culture, Gentrification 0 Comments

The Case for Eating Asian Carp

Recently I went to a Happy Hour for the ubiquitous “oysters on the half shell” special. I was lured in by the glass of champagne and the caviar topping for the oysters, because pure decadence. I had just learned how to shuck oysters – well...

May 9, 2017 Pepper Roussel Asian Carp, Invasive Species, Oysters 0 Comments

What Came First?

Chicken or the egg? It’s an interesting and eternally perplexing question that has been asked in time immemorial not because we all sit around pondering the origins of poultry but because we as people often do ponder origins, beginnings, where it...

April 9, 2017 Pepper Roussel Chicken, Egg, Food Insecurity, Poverty 0 Comments

“Let them eat … just not cake”

When I was a kid, food stamps were these oddly colored dollar bills that select people used in stores “making groceries”, as we say in New Orleans. I recall being intrigued by the brown, orange, and other colored money cause I wanted pretty...

January 9, 2017 Pepper Roussel Food 0 Comments
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