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Recipes – Food – New Orleans Travel Guide: Fresh veg selling at the French Market. Don’t ever ask about recipes in New Orleans, you might start a riot! Everyone claims that their mama, sister, and grandma make the best gumbo. Then they claim their papas boil the best crawfish. Recipes can vary so drastically, that dishes actually change shape and ingredients. I have [...]
Corner Store – Food – New Orleans Travel Guide: Fruit for sale at the French Market. Just because you can’t make it down to the Big Easy doesn’t mean that you can’t chow down on some crawfish and gumbo. Many local companies now ship live crawfish, seafood and spices around the country. Bourgeois Meat Market 543 West Main Street, Thibodaux, LA 70301 1 (504) [...]
New Orleans, Louisiana – Restaurants: New Orleans is known around the world for some of its spicy cuisine, which includes gumbo, jambalaya, red beans and rice, boudin, crawfish, and deep-fried seafood. This is a city that loves to eat, and it is no surprise that it has one of the most overweight populations and highest heart cancer rates in the [...]
New Orleans, Louisiana – February 2001 (2 of 2): Prowling the Cities of the Dead St. Roch No.1 Founded in 1874, Father Thevis vowed to build the cemetery chapel when church members were spared in the yellow fever epidemic of 1868. In the chapel is a wooden altar and shrine to St. Roch with the stations of the cross surrounding the cemetery in wall [...]
New Orleans, Louisiana – February 2001 (1 of 2): Prowling the Cities of the Dead In no other American city do its residents honor the dead as in New Orleans. Often referred to as "cities of the dead" the tombs and crypts of New Orleans have been the talk of mystery, danger, disease, and horror. Enclosed in gates throughout the city, the rusty iron [...]
New Orleans, Louisiana – Personal Drinking Guide: Generally the night scene doesn’t begin until real late in New Orleans – like after 11 at night. Here is a rundown of the places to be after dark in New Orleans. On the river side of the Quarter, close to Faubourg Marigny (a neighborhood), is a good area for freaks. In particular: The Abbey [...]
New Orleans, Louisiana – January 2001: A Local’s Guide to Mardi Gras 2001:Metairie vs. New Orleans Parades start – Fri., Feb. 16 Lundi Gras – Mon., Feb. 26 Mardi Gras Day (Fat Tuesday) – Tues., Feb. 27 Best time to visit – Sat., Feb. 24, through Tues., Feb. 27 Few travelers realize that there are actually two major Mardi Gras celebrations: [...]
New Orleans, Louisiana – February 2000: Drinking and the Dead “Spare some change for a homeless vampire?” asked the Goth youth on the curb. I ignored him – I wasn’t worried. I had a silver cross in my pocket for just these situations. But I wouldn’t need it for him; he was just a punk. He was faking it. This isn’t [...]
New Orleans, Louisiana – Books on New Orleans: Supplement what you learn here with these guides and books. Lonely Planet New Orleans (ATravel Survival Kit) (no shot of the cover available, we’re afraid) City of the Dead: A Journey Through St. Louis Cemetery The 100 Greatest New Orleans Creole Recipes All on a Mardi Gras Day: Episodes in the History of New Orleans [...]