Tag: New Orleans

• Book Review: The Essential Instant Pot Cookbook by Coco Morante

  At what point when reading a cookbook do you make the decision to just go ahead and purchase a copy for yourself? Wait, you don’t read cookbooks? I do. I check out bags of them from the library and read them cover to cover like my favorite mysteries or biographies. Sometimes I jot down a…

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  July 20, 2022

  books, Essay, food

  Coco Morante, cookbook, Instant Pot, New Orleans, Red Beans and Rice

• Travel for Beginners

  I know almost nothing about soy sauce. I know I like to dip my sushi rolls into it and I know that the colored tops of the soy sauce bottles on the tables in Asian restaurants denote whether the soy sauce is regular (red) or low sodium (green). I know it is one of the…

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  February 7, 2016

  Essay

  A Moveable Feast, A Week in Winter, Africa, Asia, Asian, Bangladesh, Baton Rouge, Beryl Markham, British, Circling the Sun, Ernest Hemingway, Europe, Hadley Richardson, Ireland, Irish, Kenya, Kirstin Chen, Louisiana, Maeve Binchy, Memphis, Monroe, Nell Freudenberger, New Orleans, Paula McLain, pub, reading, Singapore, soy sauce, Soy Sauce for Beginners, St. Jude Children’s Hospital, The Newlyweds, The Paris Wife

• One Chord

  One chord. That’s all it takes. One chord and I instantly know this song and the artist. It’s the sound of that one chord that caused me to have a reoccurring nightmare for weeks on end in 1974 where I would hear that chord and then faint, waking up hours later after having missed an…

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  August 30, 2015

  Essay

  8 track tape, Baton Rouge, Bennie and the Jets, Billy Joel, Candle in the Wind, Dorothy, Elton John, Emerald City, Europe, Fork Union Military Academy, Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, Harvest, Levon, Louisiana, LSU, Madman Across the Water, Neil Young, New Orleans, Princess Diana, SLU, The Lion King, The Wizard of Oz, Tiny Dancer

• A Narrow Sliver of Land

  We all have our Proust moments: the singular bite of something that we loved and cherished in our childhood, re-tasted later as an adult, transporting us back in time to a particularly fond memory. Truman Capote, in his semi-autobiographical short story “A Christmas Memory”, describes in great detail the food of his childhood in the…

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  February 15, 2015

  Essay

  Bayou, Bread Pudding, Catholic, Cherry Bounce, Citrus, Freeport, Gumbo, Hurricane Katrina, Louisiana, Mississippi River, New Orleans, Old Fashioned, Peanut Butter Fudge, Plaquemines Parish, Port Sulphur, Proust, Red Beans and Rice, Shrimp and Crab Stew, Truman Capote