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By Heidi Lewis A broom is an important tool when making gumbo. Tune your kitchen radio to WWOZ New Orleans, crank it up, and dance with your broom. Use it for a washtub bass or air guitar, or to sweep the metaphorical cobwebs from your thoughts and leftovers into the gumbo. Gumbo is the Louisiana [...]
Every summer when I was kid we would visit my grandparents in New Orleans. My dad’s folks lived in Metairie, a parish just outside the city near Lake Pontchartrain in a small, brick, one-story house. For a kid it seemed like a land of the lost where every yard was a miniature prehistoric garden filled [...]
It’s Carnival Time, FruitFans! Mardi Gras, aka Fat Tuesday, falls this week on February 24th. In Louisiana Fat Tuesday is a state holiday thanks to the Mardi Gras Act of 1875 – but for those without a day off, The FruitGuys have put together a colorful carnival mix of delicious treats to get your taste [...]
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