Tag: Peanut Butter Fudge

• A Can Full of Memories

  My father told me once that his favorite treat as a child was a sandwich made of white bread, sweetened condensed milk, and a Hershey bar, left to warm outside in the hot Louisiana sun. I can just picture my dad, the little boy known by all as “T-Roy”, (Cajun for “petite Roy” or perhaps,…

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  November 8, 2015

  Essay

  alfajores, bananas, Banoffee Pie, Bisquick, cafe au lait, cake mix cookies, chocolate, chocolate chips, chocolate fudge, chopped pecans, coconut, coffee, dulce de leche, evaporated milk, food memories, graham cracker crust, Hello Dolly cookie bar, Hershey’s Bar, ice-box lemon pie, Just Add Magic, Lost in London, mashed potatoes, Milk, Peanut Butter Fudge, Pet milk, pionono, sweetened condensed milk, whipped cream

• 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