One evening I was having drinks just outside of a bar, when a middle-aged man selling pralines rolled up on his bicycle and in the course of his sales pitch proceeded to regale me and my compadre with stories of pralines that included styles...
Not that anyone remembers, but Wal-Mart[1] didn’t start selling groceries until 1988. It was a shrewd move for the Waltons. Still, not everyone is celebrating. A study[2] from 2007 showed for every 3 local jobs lost, Wal-Mart replaced only 1.5...
In this part 2 of the GreenPepper interview with Adrian Miller, he continues to drop knowledge like hot buscuits. Listen to talk of soul food, food ways, and food traditions.
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...
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...
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...
There are four seasons in Louisiana: Shrimp, Crawfish, Crab, Oyster … and in that order. They loosely correspond with the seasons occurring rest of the country. If memory serves, those are winter, spring, summer, and fall. But that is neither...
