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Lauren's New Orleans-Style Vegan Muffuletta
Quick Weeknight Meals Recipe Contest 2009

Recipe: New Orleans-Style Vegan Muffuletta How long does it take? Category: 35 minutes Name: Lauren Why is it a favorite meal? A scoop of heavenly olive salad jazzes up a run-of-the-mill roast veggi...

Trust Me, He's Tasty (Especially When Made into Sausage)

I haven't traveled to many faraway lands and eaten exotic food I couldn't pronounce that may or may not have been illegal in the US. I have, however, lived in New Orleans, where alligator is on the me...

Top Chef New York New Orleans: And the Winner Is...

For the sake of those of you who have this little television nugget on TiVo and plan to save it for the weekend, we'll keep the answer below the jump. For those of you who have some things to discuss ...

Good Question: Recipes for Fat Tuesday/Mardi Gras?

It's quite appropriate that Top Chef filmed its finale in New Orleans, because we've got Mardi Gras on the brain (it's this Tuesday). So do many of you, it turns out. We've had a few requests for F...

Top Chef New York New Orleans: Finale, Part 1

The final four have moved down to New Orleans for the finale (Hello, Emeril!), and we would have eaten just about anything that came out of the kitchen in last night's episode. Beignets, check. Gri...

Hush Puppy... Hush Puppy

. While touring a cemetery in New Orleans a few weeks ago, I overheard Ray Reiker, a wine auctioneer from Alabama and a real southern gentleman, telling our tour guide the origin of the Hush Pupp...

Recipe: John Besh's Louisiana Speckled Trout Amandine

On my recent trip to New Orleans, I had the pleasure of tasting some incredible food, from classic po' boys to quite elegant, Bayou-inspired cuisine. My first night there a whole gaggle of food journ...

How To Make a Beignet

While in New Orleans, if you haven't had a beignet (pronounced ben-YAY), you aren't having the full experience of the city. A few days ago I was there for the International Association of Culinary Pr...

The Celluloid Pantry: Sazeracs and Live and Let Die (1973)

I tasted my first Sazerac on a cold winter night at Southern Accent Southern Accent in Toronto's Mirvish Village. Its warming effects were not lost on me. A distinctive blend of whiskey, absinthe (m...