a heavy bottle of red wine brought up from the cold basement in a basket of white laundry  William Carlos Williams Welcome to the last Coo...

The moment of reckoning finally arrived in sixth grade. The science fair. Every grammar student's (and parent's) worst nightmare. I...

French fries at The Delachaise. Wine bars are an anomaly to many people, including myself. We want our lives to be easily defined and com...

 Or something like that. For a while there, a visit to the Crescent City Farmer's Market at the American Can Company was a mainstay ...

The dish which made Paul Prudhomme a legend: Blackened fish, here drum, with crabmeat.   The first cookbook I ever received was Chef Paul P...

Last year Lakeview added not one but two Mexican restaurants along the Harrison Avenue corridor with the debut of the Velvet Cactus and the ...

A few months ago, I found myself with two kids under seven in my house for an extended period of time (read here: longer than an hour). No, ...

A few days ago I went to Rare Cuts to load up on research material for a future project.  I spared no expense: dry aged strip, wet aged sp...

Photo by renee b. photography . Well, those were a sobering 6 days of football for Southeast Louisiana. The gameday gear has been washed,...

... that LSU will win the BCS Championship in the same year that the Saints win the Super Bowl. Unfortunately, that dream will have to wai...

Ahab had his white whale; I have brisket. Recently, I have become mildly obsessed with cooking the perfect brisket which is crusty and bark...

Recently artisan pizza has been at the forefront of both local and national culinary trends, and we have written extensively about several o...