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Contents M A R C H 20 24 / VO LUME 58 / NUMBER 6
FEATURES STANDARDS
10 From the Editor

30 Crawfish Season! Spring Fling
Backyard boil tips
from the pros 12 Julia Street
Rebecca Friedman Law and Cheerful Disorder
14 Marquee
42 Gulf Coast Travel Top Things to Do
Best places for
beachy fun 16 Bar Tab
Chére Coen Best Bars, Drinks & More
18 The Dish
News from NOLA Kitchens
20 Style
Spring Fever
22 Persona
Martha Gilreath
Dial 12, D1
“Nolly,” the 24 Modine
newest series from 42 Face First
MASTERPIECE, starring
Helena Bonham Carter 26 New Orleans Playbook
(The Crown, Harry Spring Training
Potter) debuts on
Sunday, March 17 at
28 Vintage
8:00 p.m. on WYES-TV.
1882
The three-part story
follows Noele “Nolly”
Gordon, one of the 50 Travel
most famous faces on On the Wing
British TV in the ‘60s
and ‘70s. It’s a bold 52 Home Advice
exploration of how the Neil Peyroux
establishment turns on
women who refuse to 54 Growing Pains
play by the rules. Learn Finding My Religion
more at wyes.org.
14 18 56 Table Talk
Over the Moon
62
60 Cheers
Sugar and Spice
62 Nosh
On the cover: Packing a Punch
Crawfish boil
from Bobby's 88 Streetcar
Seafood in Joseph
Harahan
Photograph by
Theresa Cassagne
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FROM ONLINE
THE
EDITOR
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month, a top New Orleans
chef gives us a peek behind
the scenes with a special
recipe demo, along with tips
and more.
Editors’ Picks
arch is a time for many of us to Spring is here, which means,
for many, brunch and
come out from the winter doldrums. outdoor lunch or dinners.
M Spring break is right around the

corner. Festival season is starting
to get into gear. Nicer weather
Find out our editors’ top
picks for outdoor eats, plus
other favorites each week.
has returned, and with it, all the

best outdoor dining, picnics, get-togethers and, yes
crawfish boils. Current Issues
The smell of spices boiling. The newspaper spread Catch up with the latest issue
out ready for a feast. Getting together with family and of New Orleans Magazine
and all of our sister publica-
friends to share in the fun. What’s not to like about a tions, including St. Charles
crawfish boil? Unfortunately, this year some aspects Avenue, New Orleans Homes
and Bride. From home
of the boil have been a bit of a downer. Yet, while the décor to style, philanthropy,
news has been bleak on crawfish availability, there are wedding planning and more,
we’ve got you covered.
glimmers of hope on the horizon. We talk to the local
pros about what to expect, where they source their
favorite supplies, get the inside how-tos on the best boils
and some good additions to make your backyard boil a success, despite the scarcity.
Blog Highlight
While spring is a time for boils and barbecues, it’s also a time to get ready for Writer Eve Crawford Peyton
spring break and hitting the beach. We have your go-to Gulf Coast travel planner with explores the funny, and
all best places to stay, eat, drink, splash and celebrate from Mississippi to Florida. sometimes bittersweet, side
of parenting in New Orleans.
Get your sunscreen ready and be sure to pack in plenty of fun. From navigating Carnival
As always, we have all of the spring essentials you need, cover to cover, to get with a teen to planning
summer camp trips and
out, eat, drink and prepare for a good time. Festivals are coming! festival weekends, Joie D’Eve
is a real life look at living and
growing up in New Orleans,
no matter your age.
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JULI A S T REET WITH POYDRAS THE PARROT
Law and Cheerful Hey Julia,

Associate Publisher Kate Henry
Disorder The French Quarter Festival is one of my

favorite events. I hear it was started as
Editorial
Editor Ashley McLellan
Creative Director Tiffani Reding Amedeo
an appeasement by City Hall to satisfy
Digital Media Editor Kelly Massicot
Hi Julia, Quarter businesses. Is that true? If so,
Style Editor Andy Myer
I would like to know how New Orleans what did they need to be appeased about. Executive Editor Errol Laborde
Police Deptartment Mounted Patrol located - Fred Sental, Gonzales, LA
Contributing Writers Jyl Benson,
in City Park came about. What was the Cheré Coen, Lee Cutrone, Fritz Esker,
inspiration for mounted policemen? Scott Gold, John Kemp, Misty Milioto,
- Ann Duffy, New Orleans What you heard is true Fred. Now Liz Scott Monaghan, Elizabeth Pearce,
celebrating its 40th anniversary, the Eve Crawford Peyton
Mounted police are common in cities. Their French Quarter Festival originated as Advertising
advantage is visibility. The people can see a by-product of the 1984 World’s Fair. Vice President of Sales and Marketing
them and, most importantly, they can see In the years preceding the fair, the city Kate Henry, Kate@MyNewOrleans.com
people above the crowd. They are good in went through a fixing up and cleaning Account Director Meggie Schmidt
Senior Account Executives Erin Chiartano,
parks where their presence always attracts up process to make it presentable for
Brooke Genusa
attention. They are especially useful in the anticipated global visitors. In the Account Executive Lauren McCanse
New Orleans because of Carnival crowds, French Quarter there were extensive
patrolling the French Quarter anytime street repairs, with many of the old streets Sponsored Content Coordinator
or for big events, such as the upcoming having be torn up to fix their centuries Jeremy Marshall
Superbowl. They are seldom expected to old decline. For businesspeople in the Marketing
chase down the bad guys and lasso them Quarter the repairs were an absolute Marketing Manager Greer Stewart
like in the Westerns, however they have disaster. Customers could not even
contact with cops on the ground. (There is a enter their businesses because of the
2018 You Tube video that shows a mounted demolition and construction. Renaissance Publishing
Production
officer chasing a suspect down Bourbon Mayor Dutch Morial had an idea. He
Manager Rosa Balaguer Arostegui
Street. You can hear the horse clomping promised the Quarter businesses that Designer Ashley Pemberton,
as he skillfully weaves through the crowd. if they would just ride out the turmoil, Czarlyn Ria Trinidad
Ultimately the suspect is apprehended. It he would deliver a festival to be held
Circulation
is worth watching.) in the Quarter with the support and
Distribution John Holzer
City Park is the natural place to keep blessings of the city.
the horses because there is already an A committee was formed. Wheels Administration
equestrian presence due to Equest Farm, turned, and in April 1984 the fledgling Office Manager Mallary Wolfe
Chief Executive Officer Todd Matherne
where horses are available for lessons festival made its debut. What was unique
and riding. about it was that its goal was to attract
Equest is also where the Budweiser locals to the Quarter. There were no WYES DIAL 12 Staff (504) 486-5511
Clydesdales stay when they come for Mardi admission fees and the emphasis would Executive Editor Aislinn Hinyup
Gras. Totally opposite from the towering be on using local performers. A free Associate Editor Dominic Massa
Art Director Tiffani R. Amedeo
Clydesdales is Patch, a loveable three-foot festival creating work for local musi-
miniature pony that was donated to the cians and drawing residents back to New Orleans Magazine
department. The horse, who was born the Quarter was an exciting possibility. Printed in USA
A Publication of Renaissance Publishing
with only one eye, is kept at the police Each year the festival, in effect, starts
110 Veterans Memorial Blvd., Suite 123,
stable to help give emotional support to off the highly musical month of April Metairie, LA 70005
Send us your
the bigger tougher police horses. Patch and which culminates with the Jazz and MyNewOrleans.com
questions!
Poydras is looking the 26 regular police horses are reportedly Heritage Fest, one of the tops of its kind.
for something getting along well. He also made guest For the price of enduring street repairs
to do. Send your Subscription information
questions to julia@ appearances during Carnival. New Orleans got bookend festivals. (504) 828-1380
myneworleans. During Carnival a group of three mounted Poydras recalls that on the opening
com and be sure to
include your name police rode past me. I asked one of the day of the first French Quarter Festival
and information. officers what his horse›s name was. He there were even skydivers. The crowd
For the subject
shouted back but I could not understand loved it, but he personally learned never
line use: Julia and
Poydras Question. if he said “Nero” or “Hero.” I hope it is to be flying close to a guy with boots
the latter. falling from the sky.

MARQ UEE BY FRITZ ESKER
Hot Wheels Monster

Trucks Live Glow Party
March 9-10
Fan-favorite “Hot Wheels
Monster Trucks” like Demo
Derby and Tiger Shark star
as part of a spectacular show
including laser lights, theatrical
effects, dance parties,and
Hot Wheels toy giveaways.
SmoothieKingCenter.com
“Jesus Christ Superstar”

March 15-24 Katt Williams: The Dark
Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Matter Tour
Rice’s classic musical uses rock March 9-10
and funk to tell the tale of the UNO Lakefront Arena hosts
final week of Jesus Christ’s life. comedy legend and Emmy
The rock opera hits the stage at Award-winning actor Katt
the Jefferson Performing Arts Williams for two nights on his
Center. jpas.org challenging and hilarious new
tour. arena.uno.edu
Tennessee Williams & New
Orleans Literary Festival
March 20-24
The Hotel Monteleone
and other French Quarter
locations will host the annual
Tennessee Williams & New
Orleans Literary Festival.
Author interviews, panel
discussions, theater events,
literary walking tours, and more
will be part of the festivities.
TennesseeWilliams.net
“Dinosaur World Live”

March 24
“Dinosaur World Live”
presents an interactive show Nicki Minaj
of remarkably lifelike dinosaurs March 18
designed to wow audiences of Nicki Minaj, the first woman
Congo Square Rhythms Four-time Grammy-winning artist all ages. Young dino fans get to to score 100 Billboard Hot
Festival Drake comes to the Smoothie take part in a meet-and-greet 100 hits, brings her “Nicki
March 23-24 King Center for two nights as part after the show at the Saenger. Minaj Presents: Pink Friday 2
This free musical event of “It’s All A Blur Tour - Big As SaengerNOLA.com World Tour” to the Smoothie
highlights brass bands, Mardi The What?” J. Cole joins in on the
King Center for one night only.
Gras Indians, New Orleans funk tour, as well. SmoothieKingCenter. Freret Street Festival SmoothieKingCenter.com
and African dance. Food vendors com March 25
will serve classic New Orleans The Freret Street Festival spans
fare along with Caribbean YLC Wednesday At The six blocks but features over
cuisine. JazzAndHeritage.org Square 200 local artists and chefs. 20
March 6-May 8 bands will play on three stages.
“Golden Girls” Downtown’s free weekly musical FreretStreetFestival.org
March 15 concert series returns to Lafayette
The beloved 80s sitcom Square. Ylcwats.com
“TheGolden Girls” is adapted for
the stage at the Saenger Theater “Beautiful: The Carole King
as Miami’s sassiest retirees get Musical”
into a brand new set of comic March 7-31
misadventures. SaengerNOLA. Le Petit Theatre presents the
com musical review that tells the story
of spunky Brooklyn songwriter
Olivia Rodrigo Carole Klein, who became the
March 2 legendary lyricist Carole King.
Multi-platinum, three-time LePetitTheatre.com “Disney On Ice Presents
Grammy Award-winning artist Frozen and Encanto”
Olivia Rodrigo brings her “GUTS” “Champions of Magic” March 28-31
world tour to the Smoothie King March 9 Beloved Disney films “Encanto”
Center. Rodrigo’s new single “Bad Impossible illusions and and “Frozen” get the “Disney on
Idea, Right?” received a Best spectacular special effects Ice” treatment, taking families
New Track award from Pitchfork. highlight the “Champions of on a magical adventure with
SmoothieKingCenter.com Magic” show at the Saenger. Anna, Elsa and Mirabel at the
Interactive magic, daring escapes, UNO Lakefront Arena. arena.
Drake & J. Cole levitations and more will delight uno.edu
March 6-7 audiences. SaengerNOLA.com
14 MARCH 2024 / MYNEWORLEANS.COM Check all event websites for the most up-to-date information.
B AR T A B BY MISTY MILIOTO
Rare & Vintage Vino

MaMou, the modern French
brasserie in the French Quarter
from executive chef Tom
Branighan and sommelier Molly
Wismeier, has a constantly
changing Coravin wine list. This
wine preservation system allows
the staff at MaMou to pour a
glass of wine while preserving
Brunch Bevvys the rest of the bottle. As such, the
restaurant is able to offer guests
glasses of wine (typically more
Easy Virtue, the new restaurant and bar in the Warehouse District, offers a daily brunch menu, rare, vintage gems) that would
usually only be offered by the
brunch-inspired beverages and an extensive whiskey selection. Inventive cocktails include the bottle. While the Coravin wine
Cereal Milk Punch, Y’all (Buffalo Trace Bourbon shaken with cereal-infused milk, rimmed with crushed list changes often, some recent
standouts have included the
cereal), Be Patient, Veruca (blueberry vodka with blueberry-infused syrup, fresh blueberries and freshly Daniel Rion, Au Beaux Bruns,
squeezed lemon) and the Feisty Margarita (made with cucumber and tequila-soaked fresh jalapeño). Chambolle-Musigny Premier Cru,
Burgundy, France 2021; and the
Meanwhile, the bubbly menu offers a selection of Champagne, sparkling wines and Champagne cocktails.
Daniel-Etienne Defaix, Les Lys,
Try the EV mimosa party, which includes a bottle of bubbly, assorted juices and fresh berries. Easy Virtue Premier Cru Chablis, Burgundy,
also flaunts a selection of more than 100 bourbons and whiskeys, including single barrel selections from France 2010. 942 N. Rampart St.,
504-381-4557, mamounola.com
Buffalo Trace Distillery. 878 Fulton St., 504-613-2844 easyvirtue.com
Coffee Concoctions
Atelier Vie, a local distillery offering a large range of creative spirits, has released its new “Gumbo Noir”
– a coffee-flavored spirit that’s perfect for mixing. Gumbo Noir is completely clear, but it features intense Home Mixology
coffee flavors and can be used in bitter cocktails or in sweeter recipes. Gumbo Noir joins Atelier Vie’s F & P Food and Beverage has
other line of spirits such as Euphrosine Gin #9, Orphan Street Brandy “El Jefe” Edition and Toulouse introduced its newest Olde
Red, Absinthe Rouge. Distillery tours ($15) are available by appointment, and spirits are available for Tyme New Orleans product,
purchase during visits. Atelier Vie, 1001 S. Broad St., ateliervie.com Chef “Pooch” Rivera’s Mint
Syrup. The mixer is made
from cane sugar, purified
water and all-natural
spearmint flavor, and is
perfect for making drinks like
In the Spirit of NOLA the mojito, mint julep and the
For those who are looking for non-alcoholic brandy smash - all without
options, especially now that Lent is upon having to muddle mint at
us, be sure to check out Mockly’s new home. Other Olde Tyme New
collection of non-alcoholic cocktails, Second Orleans products include
Line. The new line, with branding by Applied nectar syrup, king cake syrup,
Design, encapsulates the vibrant culture and double strength French vanilla
essence of New Orleans. Try the “Madame
and Mexican vanilla. Available
L’Orange,” which features notes of smoked
orange, cinnamon and allspice, and a subtle at local participating grocers,
taste of golden honey and ginger. Available including Lakeview Grocery,
at Whole Foods, 5600 Magazine St., 801 Harrison Ave., flavor-
504-899-9119, drinkmockly.com sandsyrups.com

TH E D I S H BY MISTY MILIOTO
After the Boil

This crawfish season, consider using
leftovers from your boil in this recipe
from Chef Farrell Harrison at Plates.
Day After the Boil
German-Style Potato Salad
A Family Affair yields: 6 servings
The Emeril Group is opening its
fifth restaurant in New Orleans 1 lb Louisiana crawfish tails, peeled
later this spring, dubbed 34 from the boil
Restaurant & Bar, downtown on 2.5 lbs red potatoes, from the boil,
Baronne Street. For his newest cooled (about 15 potatoes)
concept, chef Emeril Lagasse 1 lb thick cut bacon, cut into lardons
is drawing on his Portuguese
heritage and inspiration from 2 bunches green onions, cut
his late mother. Anchored by 1 cup bacon vinaigrette
tapas-style shared plates, the 1. In a medium-sized sauté pan,
restaurant also will feature a render the bacon over medium heat
“jamon bar,” plus an internation- until crisp or cooked to your liking.
ally influenced wine and cocktail Strain off bacon fat and save to make
program. Lagasse’s son E.J., vinaigrette. Place the crispy bacon on
Retour du Déjeuner who serves as chef patron at the
Lagasse flagship Emeril’s, is a
collaborator on 34 Restaurant &
a paper towel-lined plate and allow
to sit at room temperature.
Bar. 710 Baronne St., 34restau- 2. While the bacon is cooking, slice
After a two-year hiatus, La Petite Grocery has brought back rantandbar.com the boiled red potatoes into thin
lunch service on Tuesdays and Wednesdays. Returning slices. It is best to do this when they
are cold and using a serrated knife.
menu classics from chef Justin Devillier (James Beard Foundation
3. In a separate medium-sized sauté
award winner for Best Chef: South in 2016) include the LPG cheese- pan, combine the vinaigrette and
burger and turtle bolognese. 4238 Magazine St., 504-891-3377, potatoes and warm gently over
medium heat, being careful not to
lapetitegrocery.com break the potatoes.
4. Once the potatoes are warmed
through, lower the heat and add
the crawfish tails, stirring for about 4
Tops of the Town New to Nola minutes to warm through.
Food Fight NOLA returns Chef Michael Dilonno, along
5. Remove from heat and place on a
for the third year, but with his wife Patricia and
platter by spooning the potatoes and
now at a new venue—the his daughter Kat, recently crawfish onto the plate overlapping
Shrine on Airline—in order opened Beggar’s Banquet in each other. Garnish with cut green
to accommodate more the Lower Garden District onions and crispy bacon.
restaurants and attendees. serving new American 6. Serve warm or at room temp.
During the March 14 event, cuisine with a cocktail- and
chefs and mixologists from wine-forward bar program. Bacon Vinaigrette
more than 40 restaurants will “Our goal was to create an
yields: 2 cups
compete in five categories: upscale yet casual, romantic,
Top traditional dish, artistic, moody night out,” ½ cup apple cider vinegar
creative dish, vegetarian Kat said. Popular dishes 1 cup bacon fat
dish, classic cocktail, and include the firecracker Expanded Menus ¼ cup canola oil
The Higgins Hotel & Conference
creative cocktail. Food Fight calamari, char siu pork belly, 4 Tbs. Creole mustard
Center has launched new menus
NOLA also will feature live pan-seared scallops with at Kilroy’s and Café Normandie. 2 tsp. honey
local music, creative lounge crab hash and blackened The new dinner menu at Kilroy’s
areas and a tent dedicated redfish with charred corn 1 tsp. Zatarain’s boil powder
includes blue crab-stuffed
to wine tastings. The maque choux. Chef Michael flounder, roast pork tenderloin
event benefits the PLEASE opened the first Beggar’s and praline baked Alaska. And 1. Warm the bacon fat until liquified
Foundation, which helps Banquet in Summit, New at Café Normandie (which also and combine with oil.
at-risk high school students Jersey, in 1973, and, over the has expanded brunch service to 2. In a large bowl, combine honey,
with mentorship, leadership past 50 years, has opened Saturdays and Sundays), new vinegar, Creole mustard and boil
lunch menu items include short powder.
training and scholarships to seven restaurants. 1330 rib debris beignets, muffuletta
attend college-preparatory Prytania St., 504-766-6711, 3. Drizzle in bacon fat/oil mixture
flatbread and Gulf shrimp
schools in and around the beggarsbanquetneworleans. while using a hand blender or whisk.
arrabiatta. 1000 Magazine St.,
city. 6000 Airline Drive, com 504-528-1941, higginshotelnola. 4. The vinaigrette will not emulsify
Metairie, foodfightnola.com com perfectly.

Style BY ANDY MYER
Spring Fever
You could hear the sigh of
relief across the country
when Punxsutawney Phil
recently saw his shadow.
After this year’s wild winter, 1
it’s only natural to dream of

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coming season.
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P ERSO NA BY KELLY MASSICOT / PHOTO BY ADRIENNE BATTISTELLA
Q A
Martha
Gilreath
Nolita Bakery
ew Orleans is the
city of second
N chances. After
hurricanes and
pandemics, there’s
nothing this city
and its people can’t come back from.
No one knows that more than Martha
Gilreath, owner of Nolita Bakery. Gilreath
survived addiction and homelessness and
graduated from the New Orleans Culinary
& Hospitality Institute. She opened Nolita
as a popup in 2019 and recently opened
the bakery’s first brick and mortar on
Orleans Avenue in Mid-City. Gilreath
shares what she’s learned from the life
she’s lived and what the future holds
for her and her bakery.
Q: Have you always had an interest

in baking or cooking? Oh, my gosh!
Um, no. I have said for years that I
was going to get out of the restaurant
business. It’s just something I kind of
fell into; 2020 is when I decided to go to
culinary school for pastry and actually

gained some more knowledge, but Q: What’s next for Nolita? I’m
I’ve been in and out of kitchens looking forward to discovering
for years. more [about] my customers and
know what they want from me.
Q: How does it feel to finally have Is it a cupcake class for kiddos,
Nolita be a brick and mortar? It’s for example? Or special occasion
terrifying. And it’s wonderful and treats? I want to grow and grow
surreal all at the same time. There with the wants and needs of the
is a time every morning, when I community I’m in.
go in before everyone else and it’s
dark outside and completely quiet,
where I’ll sit there and just see a
dream come true. It’s wonderful.
Q: What’s the best part about what

you do? Right now, since we’ve
opened, it’s the people. Because
I get to watch these little kiddos
come in with their parents and
read books from our little library,
or the people that bring in their
dogs and people that live in the
neighborhood. It’s such a variety
of personalities. There’s never a
moment to be bored.
Q: What advice would you give

to a younger you or someone
on a similar path? (with a laugh)
“Don’t do that.” I’d tell my younger
self, “Don’t do that, it’s not a good
idea.” I was talking to someone
recently and I thought, you know True Confession
I’m not really a
you can’t go back and rewrite it, it’s
sweets person
just how you move on. But, yes,
if I was able to talk to 19-year-old
Lagniappe
Martha, I’d say, “No ma’am.” Favorite thing to
For both personal and business, bake: anything
savory!
I’d say, if you ask for help, people
Favorite type of
are always willing to. If you’re kind
food to eat: Carbs! I
and sincere. And ask to be taught. love Mediterranean
And ask and seek direction. If you’re and Indian foods. But
my favorite food of
willing to open your mouth and be all time is my mom’s
humble and ask for help, people chicken and rice. Just
a good Louisiana
are willing to show up and it’s a
dish.
game changer. I believe people are
Favorite restaurant:
inherently good and they want to Mantra
help you. Favorite festival:
Jazz Fest

MODINE G UNC H ART BY LORI OSIECKI
My sister-in-law school zone, and that same cop is

Gloriosa is gorgeous. there. He stops her again. “Lady,
Always has been. She what are you doing? School kids
was a gorgeous baby; crossing the street aren’t up in the
then she was a gorgeous toddler, a sky!”
gorgeous little girl and a gorgeous She fixes him with her devastating
teenager. smile. “I am sooo sorry! I know better.
She is so used to it, she don’t
think about it much. People have
Face First Just give me a ticket. I deserve it.”
Of course, he don’t. She never got a
always stared at her. She just goes Beauty is as beauty does ticket in her life. But he does ask her
about her business. what she thought she was doing.
But every now and then, she She explains about turkey wattle
focuses on her looks. She got a bump He stops her, and asks her is she and talks to his assistant, whose and kissing the sky.
on her face, so she goes in to the is all right, and she looks up at him, name is Titlyn. Gloriosa says she He turns back into a cop. “First
skin doctor to check it out. It turns perfectly normal, and says she is don’t see no difference with this thing, you ain’t got no turkey wattle.
out to be a pimple, but this doctor fine, thank you. He wonders if HE Botox, so Titlyn schedules her Not even a chicken wattle.
(I will call him Dr. Scambola, so I is the one having the stroke. another appointment in two weeks. “Second, you keep kissing the
don’t get sued) tells her that it is time She walks into her house still “I wasn’t here when you came sky like that and you’ll get bird poop
for her to start getting Botox to get making faces and her kids all shriek in before,” she says. “Are you the in your mouth. What doctor you
rid of her (non-existent) wrinkles. and run away. Finally, she gets them one worried about your turkey been going to?”
Botox only last three months, so calmed down, explains about the wattle?” “TURKEY WATTLE?” She tells him. “Hmm,” he says.
how can it hurt? Botox, and makes them promise to Gloriosa screeches. “Yes. Because “Maybe that’s the skin doctor we got
So, $200 and six injections later, not tell Daddy - partly because of the there’s a nice exercise for that. under investigation. (He is making
he is telling her to make “extreme” $200, and partly because she wants Kiss the sky. Put your head back this up.) Probably you shouldn’t go
faces in the car home so it would to see if he notices any difference, and go ‘Mwah!’ Do it as often as to him no more.”
“distribute and look natural.” once the Botox is distributed. you can. It’s a lovely exercise.” That afternoon, when she fusses
She definitely did not look natural When he gets home and is Gloriosa thanks her and goes it at her kids for something, they all
on the way home. rummaging through the refrigerator the bathroom and looks at her just giggle. That NEVER happened
She was going through a school for his pre-supper snack, she walks neck, then the ceiling, and goes before. Then she remembers - her
zone, nice and slow, making faces in into the kitchen and asks him if “Mwah.” forehead is frozen. She can’t scowl
the rearview mirror - wrinkling her he notices anything different. He She is still doing it when she at them.
forehead and gritting her teeth and peers up out the snack drawer and gets into the car. She opens up She has lost her power.
puffing out her cheeks. No wonder and says, “Umm. Your bra seems her sun roof, so she can actually She calls Titlyn and cancels all
the cop noticed her. a little tight.” see the sky, and goes “Mwah!” further appointments.
He decides she must be having So THAT’S what he looks at. MEN! whenever she can. If it’s a choice between beauty
a stroke. She calls the doctor the next day, And then she goes through the and power, power wins.

N EW O RL EA NS P L A YBO O K BY MIKE SCOTT / ART BY AMBER DAY
Spring
Training
Pitching forward
Dear Clearwater,
I write today with a rare humility
and even rarer pangs of envy.
It is not your pristine waters I
covet, however. Nor is it the sandy Florida shores
at which they lap.
They are undeniably beautiful, but with Grand
Isle, Gulf Shores and Destin within relative arm’s
reach, we in New Orleans have all the opportunity
we need to get sand in our shorts.
It is certainly not for your food. I have eaten New Orleans isn’t merely a baseball town. It Then came the Zephyrs’ name change, to
in your part of the world. I ordered fried catfish. is a superb baseball town – historically so – and the unfathomably ill-conceived “Baby Cakes.”
It was delivered with a large empty bowl – “for arguably the greatest baseball town in America To this day, I haven’t the foggiest what a
your shuckings.” without a pro team. baby cake is. Perhaps it is a euphemism for
Allow me to say: Oysters, yes. Boiled crawfish, Just look at the attendance for the LSU Tigers, “idiot owners determined to make a city fall
yes. Barbecued shrimp, yes. which last season led the nation in college baseball out of love with their team so they can relocate.”
But I assure you, when prepared correctly, attendance – for only the 25th time since 1996. If that was their ploy, it worked, dammit.
fried catfish have no “shuckings.” Granted, the Tigers play their home games in There has been no joy in Mudbugville for the
Rather, my envy is rooted in the fact that, Baton Rouge, not New Orleans. But the Braves past four springs.
while most of us await the crack of the bat and are based in Cumberland – and the NFL’s New And we have been lessened by it.
the smell of freshly clipped infield grass – which, York Giants and New York Jets both actually Some local baseball fans have fed their fandom
mercifully, will come in late March – you, as an play in New Jersey. in the intervening years by supporting the Houston
East Coast epicenter for spring training, have been Geography, it seems, is what you make of it Astros, given their proximity to New Orleans
in baseball mode for weeks already. in matters of athletics. and the fact that the Zephyrs’ were once part
Pitchers and catchers returned to you in New Orleans’ baseball tradition is nothing new, of their farm system.
early February, with hitters and infielders but a predating the Civil War. Its golden age, however, The loyalty of certain oldheads still lies with
couple of weeks behind. You, lucky Clearwater, began in 1887, when the minor-league New the Pittsburgh Pirates, in whose system the
have been treated to full baseball games since Orleans Pelicans first took the turf at Crescent Park. Pelicans played for nine years starting in 1948.
the week after the Super Bowl. Those OG Pels later moved to Athletic Park, This writer’s MLB team of choice came more
Meanwhile, the rest of us have been left to followed by Pelican Park – where “Shoeless” Joe recently, when – after years of taking my now-
wait wistfully, dreaming of peanuts (shuckings), Jackson suited up as part of 1910’s squad – and, grown son to ballgames – the kid returned the
Crackerjacks (no shuckings) and overpriced, finally, the fondly remembered Pelican Stadium. favor by treating me to a Philadelphia Phillies
watered-down beer. (We shall for now ignore the 1977 reincarnation, game.
I know what you are thinking: But New Orleans in which a latter-day version of the Pelicans The gesture alone was touching enough to
is not a baseball town. played for one forgettable season on the formerly win me over. That I was an unaffiliated fan, due
That is where you are mistaken. zippered turf of the Superdome.) to New Orleans’ barren baseball landscape, only
Regrettably, only part of the city was allowed made me more open to adopting the Fightin’
to enjoy the show in those early, segregated days. Phils as my team of choice.
But even that led to a rich, if often overlooked, It was cemented when the starting pitcher
Ask Mike Negro Leagues tradition in the city – until Jackie took the mound.
Have a question or a Robinson finally set things right. He was a former LSU Tiger. His pitch-perfect
thought to share about Younger fans will remember the New Orleans name: Aaron Nola.
New Orleans etiquette
or tradition? I’d love Zephyrs, who blew into town from Denver in If you see him around Clearwater, send him
to hear it. Email it to 1993 with that name, coincidentally shared by my best.
NewOrleansPlaybook@
gmail.com. the signature roller coaster of the now-long-gone And tell him to steer clear of the fried catfish.
Pontchartrain Beach amusement park. Sincerely, New Orleans

VI NT A G E BY JOHN R. KEMP
1882
ark Twain had definite views about New Orleans “good luck – and in a sense the bad luck” of not having its commercial
and its architecture when he visited the city in the district destroyed by fire. If it had, he claimed, perhaps the city’s “burnt
M spring of 1882 while gathering colorful stories for his

nostalgic 1883 book, Life on the Mississippi. Twain
was no stranger to the city. As a river pilot, he had
district” would be more like Boston, which he describes as like no other
“commercial district in any city in the world.”
Though not impressed by the city’s commercial architecture, he had
visited the Crescent City several times between 1857 kinder words for residential buildings, especially in Uptown neighbor-
and 1861. This visit was different. hoods. “All have a comfortable look,” he wrote. “Those in the wealthy
Arriving in the city by steamboat from St. Louis on April 28, Twain quarter are spacious; painted snow-white usually, and generally have wide
noted that not much had changed since his visit two decades earlier. verandas, or double verandas, supported by the ornamental columns. ….
“It had greatly increased in spread and population,” he wrote, “but the No houses could well be in better harmony with their surroundings, or
look of the town was not altered. The dust, waste-paper-littered, was more pleasing to the eye, or more homelike and comfortable-looking.”
still deep in the streets; the deep troughlike gutters along the curbstones Twain wrote glowingly about the “Old French part” of the city, especially
were still half full of reposeful water with a dusty surface…” the ancient “Spanish part.” As a side note, he called the Old State Capitol
With that said, Twain went on to claim New Orleans was “well outfitted in Baton Rouge “a little sham castle.” But back to the French Quarter.
with progressive men – thinking, sagacious, long-headed men” who “The houses there,” he continued, “are massed in blocks; are austerely
had launched numerous sanitary improvements throughout the city. He plain and dignified; uniform of pattern, with here and there a departure
even claimed New Orleans was the “best-lighted city in the Union” and from it with pleasant effect; all are plastered on the outside, and nearly
that “electric lights were more numerous than those of New York.” He all have long, iron-railed verandas running along the several stories.
described the above-ground cemeteries, using the phrase Their chief beauty is the deep, warm, varicolored stain with
“city of the dead,” as beautiful and “architecturally graceful.” which time and the weather have enriched the plaster. It
Twain, however, was not impressed by the city’s commercial Canal Street, ca. 1882, harmonizes with all the surroundings and has natural a
architecture on Canal St. Not even the grand Henry Howard- The Clarence John look of belonging there as the flush upon sunset clouds.
Laughlin Archive at
designed Italianate Crescent Billiard Hall (now the Pickwick The Historic New This charming decoration cannot be successfully imitated;
Club), seen here in about 1882 on the corner of Canal and Orleans Collection, neither is it to be found elsewhere in America.”
St. Charles, earned a favorable mention. Twain seemed comfortable in New Orleans, especially
“Canal Street,” Twain continued, “was finer and more attractive and when visiting old friends, such as New Orleans writer George Washington
stirring than formerly, with its drifting crowds of people, its several Cable. Twain wrote about Mardi Gras, cockfights, old pirates, the cost
processions of hurrying streetcars, and – toward evening – its broad of coffins, the old custom “Lagniappe,” city wharves, the late Civil War,
second-story verandas crowded with gentlemen and ladies clothed “frail breast-work” levees, West End and Spanish Fort, the late “War”
according to the latest mode. Not that there is any ‘architecture’ in Canal and the destructive legacy of Sir Walter Scott who “rung the people mad,
Street: to speak in broad, general terms, there is no architecture in New a couple of generations ago, with his medieval romances.”
Orleans, except in the cemeteries.” Completing his stay in New Orleans, Twain boarded a steamboat on
According to Twain, American architecture didn’t evolve until after May 6 to continue his Life on the Mississippi journey upriver to St. Paul,
the Civil War. And that unlike Boston and Chicago, New Orleans had the Minnesota.

HEADS
&TAILS
BOil like a bOss this yeAr with the
seAsOn’s mOst treAsured cAtch
BY REBECCA FRIEDMAN / PHOTOGRAPHY BY THERESA CASSAGNE / PORTRAIT ILLUSTRATIONS BY S.E. GEORGE
There’s no better way to turn strangers into friends than over a heap of boiled crawfish. Even
high-brow diners get finger-licking messy, and everyone’s got their take on the best recipe,
boil etiquette, and more. As we move into south Louisiana’s favorite culinary window, we ask
experts how they boil (even in a crawfish season that’s off to a precarious start – more on that
below) and share all you need to spice up the season. Pass the paper towels, and let’s get peeling.
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the flavor wasn’t in there, and then one day, it
L
arry Thompson, Jr., a.k.a. Mr. Shrimp,
has become a fixture on the local seafood just hit… and has been consistent ever since.
scene, supplying individuals and restaurants It’s a real technique to get that seasoning inside
with fresh and prepared seafood. In late 2023, that crawfish. I use [‘Throw It in the Pot’] for
Thompson opened “Mr. Shrimp’s Kitchen” at the everything. The only thing different is I make
Riverwalk Outlets food court. There he serves it a little spicier because it’s crawfish.”
up specialties like shrimp Alfredo with fried The gear “A good sturdy pot and a good sturdy
catfish and of course, boiled seafood, cooked spoon that ain’t gonna'' melt on you as soon as
with his “Throw It in the Pot” seasoning (also you put it into the pot… I’m from the old school.
available for purchase). According to Thompson, I’m gonna'' use the basket, pull it out. And
on days when he’s offered boiled crawfish, people adore you doing it that traditional way.”
“it went crazy. People are like, ‘When are you The approach “When you’re boiling crawfish,
gonna'' do it again?’ Even with the crawfish you have to first purge them. If you don’t purge
being expensive like they are right now, they’re them, they’re going to taste gritty, like you just
still all over it.” grabbed them out of the water. Secondly, just
How he learned Thompson was self-taught. “I watching them in the pot. A lot of people think
really was afraid to cook them… It took me a once they come to a boil, it’s finished. No, you
Mr. Shrimp while to master the crawfish because they’re so

unique, in the hard shell, to get the flavor inside
have to properly watch them in that pot. And the
soaking process is key. You have to soak them
(Larry Thompson, Jr.) of them. So, I tried all kinds of techniques, and for enough time after you boil them for flavor,
sides
David Hargrove + Teon Reid
Celery
horough his catering/fine dining company 2 corn, and smoked sausage (we like Double D – it
T Brothers 1 Love, chef David Hargrove explores

cuisine that builds upon contemporary Creole
flavors with notes of the Caribbean and African
has good flavor). I always like to do something
on the side, like jerk chicken with rice and peas
(red beans) because not everyone eats crawfish.
Lemon
roots. Hargrove and partner chef Teon Reid are Newcomers can’t go through more than a pound
known for their Caribbean-style boil. or two.”
How he learned “I’m from Louisiana. I’ve been A Caribbean twist “Our Caribbean boil is made Garlic
eating crawfish my whole life. I learned from with sausage, potatoes, and corn, but we add
family outings… tricks of different aunts and sweet potato or pineapple chunks, and instead of
uncles and cousins… to compile my own recipe. Creole spice, we swap Caribbean jerk seasoning,
Through [Teon Reid who hails from Jamaica], we habanero pepper or bonnet pepper, allspice, some Orange
have this Caribbean side which is nice – I know green pepper for an earthy taste. We do it with
it’s authentic.” crawfish, shrimp, crabs… it’s popular and delicious.”
Must-haves “My favorite pot. My favorite paddle. Favorite boil spot “A concrete slabbed area, like the
My favorite dry herbs/fresh herbs. Citrus on deck, back of a venue. Someplace you can have live Onion
just to brighten it up a bit, round it out a bit. Lots music in one corner – a big open space.”
of different spices. Sometimes I try to mimic Favorite beverage accompaniment “Miller High Life.
some of the Vietnamese flavors I’ve tasted on A solid beer. Paradise Park. Ice cold.”
the Westbank.” On navigating crawfish scarcity “Shrimp are amazing, Mushroom
Favorite sides “We add sweet potatoes, sometimes especially brackish water Gulf shrimp. Crabs too.
white or red yam as well, regular red potatoes, We just had a bunch of Dungeness crabs.”
Potato
Artichoke
Sausage
texture, everything. You literally ought to be able with great people is that they contact me – I’m high
to pinch the end of that tail and they come out. If on the list for live Louisiana crawfish. A lot of my
you’re fighting with it, it’s not a good crawfish boil. vendors come from the Breaux Bridge or Lafayette Brussel
At the end of the day a crawfish boil is what area – they get the most crawfish.” Sprouts
you put in it… and you don’t throw everything in Favorite boil spot “Next to some water! That’s why
the pot together. You cook everything separately I love being in the Riverwalk – you get the best of
because some things cook quicker than others. both worlds [re: outdoor patio seating overlooking
[Otherwise] what you’re gonna' get is – a.) some- the river]. You take it outside and get that scenery... Pineapple
thing’s gonna' overcook, b.) something’s gonna' When you’re out there, you’re on a vacation and
taste like another item and c.) everything’s gonna' you’re at home.”
taste like the sausage… Everything should have its Favorite beverage accompaniment “You’ve got to have
own unique taste.” your cold beer. It’s a New Orleans culture thing.
Corn
The sides “Crawfish, potatoes and corn are the go-to. I’m a Heineken drinker. At the events that I do,
I’m from the old school. Sausage and turkey necks Michelob Ultra is one, Budweiser is the top beer.
– all that came down the line. Shrimp came because Daiquiris come second. Once everybody started
you couldn’t get crawfish. If I use any sausage, it’s getting daiquiris with it, it became a thing – boiled
Sweet
Double D sausage. The texture – it holds in the boil seafood and daiquiris.” Potatoes
as opposed to breaking loose.” On crawfish scarcity Mr. Shrimp recommends substi-
The source “I was blessed to have crawfish in tuting… shrimp, of course, boiled with ‘Throw It in
December… That’s the great part of being connected the Pot’ seasoning.
To-go options
These spots offer boiled (and
sometimes sacks of live, supply
permitting – call ahead) craw-
fish to get your no-hassle fix.
Seither’s Seafood (they also
boil for Zuppardo’s Family Mar-
ket) 279 Hickory Ave., 504-738-
1116, seithersseafood.com
Schaefer Seafood 1726 Lake
Ave., 504-833-3973
Deanie’s Seafood Market 1713
Lake Ave., 504-835-4638, dean-
ies.com
Clesi’s Seafood Restaurant &
Catering 4323 Bienville St., 504-
909-0108, clesicatering.com
Big EZ Seafood 1632 Lafayette
St., Gretna, 504-272-0711, big-
ezseafood.com
Boil Seafood House 3340
Magazine St., 504-309-4532,
boilseafoodhouse.com; Hieux
Boil Seafood House 4077 Tulane
Ave., 504-766-0478, hieux.com.
These sister restaurants offer
a variety of customizable Viet-
Cajun style preparations.
Don't
forget the
cold beer!
Marcus Jacobs orders for live crawfish (with a couple of pot – that’s a big thing for me – lemon,
days’ notice). orange, good bit of garlic. We have a boil
hef Marcus Jacobs, who built his How he learned “By watching. And eating. spice we sell at Porgy’s, a custom blend
C seafood bonafides at Herbsaint and

the former Marjie’s Grill and Seafood
Sally’s, now brings them to Porgy’s Seafood
I’m not from here so didn’t grow up eating
boiled crawfish, but working at Herbsaint,
we would have staff crawfish boils a lot…
with a lot of dried citrus peels and spice.”
Favorite sides “Potatoes and mushrooms
are a have-to-have. I don’t go wild on the
Market (with partners Caitlin Carney, Dana then going to friends’ houses and learning sides. I like to just eat a bunch of crawfish.
Honn and Christina do Carmo Honn). as we go. “ In a perfect world, I’m boiling the sides
The sustainable Mid-City market/eatery Must-haves “A powerful burner of any type, completely separate because I want my
(located in the former site of Bevi Seafood) even a single stand thing you get at the crawfish to taste like crawfish, not Brussels
plans to sell hot boiled crawfish, cater checkout at Rouses – something that can sprouts… I will have potatoes to fill me up,
offsite boils, and supply permitting, take bump out the BTUs. A lot of citrus in the but I really beeline for the bugs.”
The source “We are big rice field crawfish Favorite beverage accompaniment “Definitely cold,
people. I prefer Breaux Bridge or Lafayette cheap beer – something in the Budweiser/
crawfish to spillway wild stuff. We work with High Life gamut – but very, very cold.”
people who work with farmers from western On crawfish scarcity “For me, especially right
Louisiana to bring stuff straight to us.” now, it’s understanding that every season
Favorite boil spot “I’d say my house, but I don’t is different and even though some of the
like cleaning up afterwards. I like doing it at product is farmed, it is at the whim of Mother
friends’ houses, where I can show up and Nature. Probably prices will be a little higher,
cook and it’s more of a collective effort. Also but we need to make sure they’re around for
renting out shelters at City Park – a lovely next year and the following year. We’re so
atmosphere under the oaks. Anywhere that’s used to having these long crawfish seasons
outside where you can get a water hookup.” that people are ready to go.”
Headgear: Dirty Coast’s “Make Crawfish
$1.97/lb. Again” hat is a sentiment we can
all get behind, dirtycoast.com
Fun & Games: Even the smallest cook can Seersucker style: Be
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fish Boil Set from Fleurty Girl, fleurtygirl.net boil with these craw-
fish embroidered, flat
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in classic blue from
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Dishing it out: Why reinvent the wheel?

You can’t go wrong with a classic, reusable
plastic tray.
Take cover: Newspaper is simplest, but

kraft or butcher paper or plastic tablecloths
also set the table for a great boil. Crawfish
Table Cover, lacrawfish.com; Crawfish Kraft
Paper Table Roll, lacrawfish.com
Can-do: Chill your

Boiling gloves: beer in high style
Protect your hands with a canpadre from
from hot pots. Dirty Coast. Union
Heavily Insulated No more muddy-bugs: Wash your Justice Crawfish
Boiling Gloves, crawfish with a big ice chest or plastic Canpadre by Liberty ,
Acadia Crawfish tub and hose or take it up a notch dirtycoast.com
with Cowboy’s Crawfish Washer,
lacrawfish.com
Paddle pro: The Boil

Boss paddle has a ther-
mometer to gauge water
temperature, which can
be helpful during the
soaking process.
Wearable gear:
Jazz up your bac-
kyard boil get-up
with this unisex
crawfish-print
For crawbabies: Baby's first boil will button down
be a big hit with the kidddie crowd from Fleurty Girl,
with this organic cotton baby bib from fleurtygirl.net.
Nola Tawk, nolatawk.com
Keeping it clean: For post-peeling hand cleaning, lemons

reduce the boil smell. Some folks tout the stainless steel
‘soap’ bar, and of course, there’s a bespoke soap. Stainless
Steel Soap Hand Odor Remover Bar Eliminating Smells
Clean as a whistle: No more

garlicky, fishy, spicy hands with
Mudbug-Be-Gone Hand Soap
from Kings Hand Soap in pepper-
mint, kingshandsoap.com
Spice it up: Pros in

the know recom-
mend a mix of
liquid concentrated
The boiling pot: Most of our experts stand by and classic spice
the basics – a big pot and separate lift-out boil blends from a
basket, but an all-in-one seafood cooker com- Louisiana favorite,
bines the pot and basket with a high-powered such as Zatarain's, for
burner in a sturdy stand. backyard boils.
Copeland Crews
n addition to experience in the kitchens of Sylvain and
I Saba, the chef de cuisine for Audubon Clubhouse by

Dickie Brennan & Co. honed her seafood cooking skills
on low-country boils in her native South Carolina – solid
preparation for boiling Louisiana crawfish.
How she learned “I grew up on low country boils (or Beaufort
stew). It doesn’t change from house to house – they all have
potatoes, sausage, corn, Old Bay, and beer. Shrimp cooks
Camille Staub-Morgan
quickly, so it’s what you add at the end – you’re able to do
the whole thing in an hour or so. New Orleans was a big
change. I learned ‘if the crawfish boil starts at 2:00, the first
drop comes at 3:30.’ It takes all day. My first job here was at
Sylvain. On Mardi Gras day they would do a companywide
crawfish boil. It was my first look at the background of doing
a boil… The next year, I decided to do my first.”
Must-haves “I saw in a lot of videos that people will add ice
to the pot or use Cajun cookers that cool the outside quickly.
It’s important to drop the temperature, so I take empty
gallon milk jugs, fill them with water, and freeze them so
I have like six of those to use for each drop instead of using
ice. For ingredients: always oranges, lemon, onion, celery,
garlic – the classics. Someone told me once to use lemon
concentrate – buy one little jar that will last your whole life.
The trick to that is only use a capful or two – it takes the
lemon flavor to next level, but too much is like Pine-Sol.
The approach “Hosting is hard, so I do as much as I can
the day before. Chop your sausage, cut your onions and
citrus in half. Purge the crawfish and put them in a big
cooler on ice – they’ll be fine. Try to plan ahead and to
delegate – somebody else knows how to clean corn, etc.
As that water is coming up and you’re seasoning it, taste
the water and your poaching liquid. You can’t go back once Celery Salad
you do that first drop. That’s when you really figure it out. Camille Staub-Morgan’s
family recipe makes an
Don’t waste your first drop. People say the second drop is ideal crawfish comple-
the best, but it doesn’t have to be.” ment
The sides “Whole garlic, mushrooms, artichoke hearts, Brussels
5 cups thinly sliced celery
sprouts. I’m a people pleaser to a point, but I prefer a spicy (leaves and all)
crawfish boil. One thing I will do to do [please] the masses 1 cup toasted pecans
is get a spicy and not-spicy andouille. I’ll cut all the spicy (chopped)
sausage on the bias and others with a straight edge so 1 cup grated parmesan
cheese
people can see what’s not spicy. I also like an array of
1 bunch green onions
dips, pimento cheese… something not too spicy because (sliced)
crawfish will be spicy.” Salt and pepper to taste
Favorite boil spot “A backyard or side yard… But close enough
to your kitchen and close to a hose – the good New Orleans Dressing
hose water is part of the recipe.” 3 tbsp. lemon juice
Favorite beverage accompaniment “Paradise Park or Abita Amber. 3 tbsp. whole grain
mustard
Or a daiquiri – no one ever complains when someone shows
3 tbsp. Dijon mustard
up with a gallon of strawberry daiquiris.”
1.5 cup olive oil
On navigating crawfish scarcity “I grew up doing shrimp boils,
and the similarities are astounding. Crawfish boils really Combine all ingredients
come down to the atmosphere. Yes, crawfish are delicious. in a generous serving
bowl, toss with dressing
But what you’re really trying to do is create an environment and you’re good to go!
and party and reason to gather. Getting those shrimp is
also a great way to support local fisherman.”
s the operations manager for the Southern
A Food and Beverage Museum (SoFAB), Camille

Staub-Morgan brings experience honed at
spots including Willa Jean and Cochon and as
co-owner of catering business Luncheon, plus
a lifetime of backyard boils. Staub-Morgan is
hoping to incorporate crawfish boils into SoFAB’s
programming this spring.
How she learned “I grew up in Baton Rouge and
New Orleans, and we boiled at home all the time.
I worked for a restaurant in Baton Rouge as my
first job out of culinary school, Sammy’s Grill,
where we did crawfish boils every spring. The
freestyle version of what I do comes from my
dad. The more structured, ‘same way every time’
boil I learned from Sammy’s.”
Must-haves “Obviously, a pot that’s big enough (the
pot I use is 160-qt, which fits two small sacks or
1.5 medium-sized sacks). My dad always gets way
too much crawfish in one small pot. I grew up
using a dinky wooden paddle – I love someone’s
paw-paw’s wooden paddle. The other thing is
your propane jet – you need to have one with
at least three jet burners. Some people use old
ones with two jets, and you’ll be there for hours
trying to get your water to boil. I grew up using
Louisiana boil powder, and I’m tried-and-true
with that. I also add the Zatarain’s boil-in-a-bag
packets that have the whole seeds and seasonings
in them [because I’ve found the Louisiana boil
packets bust open].”
The approach “One thing we do that’s kind of
controversial – I put butter in mine. Once they’re
done boiling, cut off the tanks and let them soak.
Throw butter in. Add ice to cool them down, shock
things, and send all that juice into the heads of
the crawfish. Let them sit longer to soak up the
flavor, and that flavor goes to the heads, and you
get this silky delicious crawfish juice. For me, the
head juice is superior to the actual tail meat.”
Favorite side “My mom does this phenomenal celery
salad that we always make on the side because
it’s this lovely cool down for your mouth. You
also have to have potatoes, corn, mushrooms,
and sausage. For Luncheon we did ‘the Luncheon
fixings’: pineapple and sweet potato. We would
also do this lovely thing another chef friend of
ours told us about: take the garlic from your boil,
mix it with Country Crock (because it’s salty and
always spreadable), and dip your potatoes in it.”
Favorite boil spot “My parents’ backyard. It’s the
one place I don’t actually have to boil.”
Favorite beverage accompaniment “Always a Modelo.”
John Rowland
s the veteran owner of Southern
A Hospitality Catering, John

Rowland has a team of “really
amazing chefs” that cover most of
the cooking nowadays. But he still
handles the crawfish boils himself:
“It’s my passion.”
How he learned “When I was young,
even before high school, a couple
of my friends and I would go out to
New Orleans East, off I-10, and drop
these little crawfish traps and get our
own. The first few times we did it,
they were terrible, then we kind of
figured it out.”
The gear “For the last decade, I have
a guy who makes these lightweight
aluminum tanks for me. They’re on
wheels, and you put them in the van
and go… [but] you can go to Sam’s Club
or any hardware store and buy a pot
with a basket. The pots have gotten a
lot better – much lighter weight. They
come in varying sizes, big enough to
put a whole sack and fixings in it.”
The approach “I have stuck with the
same recipe and been very successful oily and make the water look kind out of Breaux Bridge I’ve used Favorite beverage accompaniment
with it. I am a big fan of Zatarain’s. of weird, but Creole Country is forever… [This season] it may be “Definitely beer. We do a lot of
I do both dry and liquid Zatarain’s nice and pure and is really good where we have to source crawfish Abita or Miller Lite kegs with boils.
plus other ingredients like hot sauce, sausage. A lot of artichokes, Brussels from other farmers that we haven’t As long as it’s not dark beer. My
lemon juice… My only change is if sprouts. We’ve had pineapple in in the past.” personal preference is Holy Roller
people want it really spicy, I kick up there. Mushrooms are my favorite. Favorite boil spot “We’re the exclu- [by Urban South].”
the heat [with more liquid boil] but I also do something most people sive boilers for The Tchoup Yard, and On crawfish scarcity “In my previous
still use my recipe.” don’t do – I put whole chickens in we like doing boils over there. I’ve experience, when they have been
Favorite sides “We’ll do jambalaya and mine. I put them in lingerie bags, done a lot of boils at the Butterfly expensive or scarce, people still
usually a Caesar salad so there are some and they don’t come apart. They at Audubon Park. For a lot of boils, put out the money to do it. They
greens. In the crawfish: corn, potatoes, come out really, really good. A lot of people have us do it here, put [the might downscale, but they are such
sausage. For sausage, I exclusively use times I’ll use the leftover chicken to crawfish] in insulated containers a staple that people will sacrifice
Creole Country. Most of the sausages make a spicy, tasty chicken salad.” so they stay hot, then bring them a lot to have crawfish.”
you put in crawfish boil get really The source “I have a crawfish supplier onsite.”
The Crawfish
Conundrum
2024 season finds mudbugs
in short supply
The rumblings started late
last year, dire predictions of
an unprecedented crawfish
shortage in the upcoming
season. Typically, southeast
Louisiana revelers would be
boiling early season bugs
throughout the Carnival
season right into the peak
of spring. But thanks to last
year’s brutally hot, dry weath-
er followed by winter cold,
crawfish have been scarce,
and the forecast from local
experts ranges from cata-
strophic to disappointingly
delayed. Prices at press time
averaged upwards of $10/
lb for live crawfish, with folks
hoping for a greater yield
(and lower prices) in the com-
ing weeks. The Crawfish App
(yes, there’s an app) tracks
availability and prices for live
and boiled crawfish in the
area. Otherwise, shrimp and
crab boils will have to stand
in for many locals as we look
ahead to better crustacean
conditions next season.
The
GULF
COAST
IS BUZZING
BY CHERÉ COEN
MANY
NEW
WAYS TO
WINE,
DINE AND
REST A
WEARY
HEAD
t the turn of the 20th century, the “Elvis learned to waterski on the back
A Branigar Brothers of Chicago discov-

ered a unique piece of property
outside Ocean Springs that offered water
bayou,” said Michael Davis, director of
sales and marketing for the Rain Travel
Collection, who own and operate the
access from Fort Bayou, sleepy live oak property.
trees and a climate that would provide a Hurricane Camille in 1969 destroyed
delightful respite from the Windy City’s Elvis’ Villa and the storm, plus a fire, would
brutal winters. With money made from wreak havoc on the historic resort over
Prohibition, they opened the with guest the years. In 2021, new owners renovated
rooms, a golf course and The Pink Pony the property and, once again, Gulf Hills
lounge. Guests could even board The has evolved into something new and
Dixie Queen and enjoy a sunset cruise exciting but remaining true to its history.
along the bayou. “We wanted to preserve its history and
One of those early guests was the charm,” Davis said. “But Elvis is still in
notorious Al Capone. the building.”
Later, Gulf Hills evolved into Mississippi’s Phase one of Gulf Hills Hotel & Resort,
first working “Dude Ranch,” attracting which opened last year, includes total
celebrities such as Elvis Presley, who room renovations, waterfront suites, a
would relax in Villa No. 9 and play the 3,500-square-foot ballroom and the Sunset
piano in the Pink Pony. Lounge that faces the bayou. Future plans
include a marina, pickleball courts and a wedding chapel,
among other amenities. GulfHillsHotel.com
Gulf Hills is one of many new and exciting additions to
the Gulf Coast. Below are a few new hotels and restaurants
to whet your coastal appetite.
Springs Hotel, Ocean Springs

The Rain Travel Collection, which opened Gulf Hills Hotel
& Resort last year, also debuted The Springs Hotel in
downtown Ocean Springs. The two new hotels add to the
company’s other Ocean Springs properties The Roost, The
Hemingway, Beatnik Motel and The Inn.
The former law office at 424 Washington Ave. has been
reformed into a 15-guest room hotel next to the Walter
Anderson Museum of Art and within walking distance from
restaurants, shops and Front Beach. The Springs, which
opened in December, gets its name from the waters that
first drew tourists to the area. Visitors will discover rooms
with king beds and kitchenettes and two featuring living
rooms. SpringsHotelOS.com
The Bella, Biloxi

Real estate developer Ivan Spinner purchased the old
Wells Fargo building on Howard Avenue in the heart of
downtown Biloxi and has reimagined the property as
a swanky boutique hotel. The hip new space designed
by Spinner’s wife, Kelly, features 13 individually-themed
short-term rental suites with kitchenette, full bath and an
Alexa Echo device connected to an in-room sound system.
On site is the Brew Paddle Café where chef Scott Plauche
and his wife Rachel serve up breakfast and lunch items,
artisan bread and craft coffee.
Because of its downtown location, The Bella is close
to casinos, museums, the MGM baseball park and the
renaissance of Howard Avenue.
Opening page and top: Gulf Hills Hotel & Resort Above: “There’s a lot going on down here,” Ivan Spinner said
The Bella Top, right: Celestine Bed and Breakfast of downtown Biloxi. TheBellaDowntown.com
Hotel Whiskey, Pascagoula

Opening date on the Mississippi coast’s second Hotel
Whiskey is scheduled for early March. The first incarnation
by owners Mike and Anna Craven opened in Pass Christian,

Top, right: CoastAl Middle, left: El Weirdo
Middle, right: Luna Muna Cafebar Bottm, left:
Evergreen Bottom, right: Kaiteki Noodle Bar
helping to anchor the rejuvenation of the small 15-room Lily Hall Boutique Lodging House
but quaint town. The Cravens had debuted an (LilyHall.com) in Pensacola’s historic Old East
off-the-grid Whiskey on the River in nearby Hill. New to the historic Belmont-Devilliers
Pearl, Miss., but the Pascagoula property will be Neighborhood is the circa-1888 Celestine Bed
the latest hotel in the group, offering 11 guest and Breakfast (CelestineBedandBreakfast.com)
rooms and five residential suites for long-term that features four accommodations named
stays. The new building neighbors Pascagoula after the owner’s great-grandmother Celestine
City Hall, in the heart of downtown, and it’s Harrison.
just the beginning of more sites for Revival For those who prefer the beach,
Properties. Plans for the near future include the rebranded Pensacola Beach Resort
a new 30-room hotel in Long Beach and a (ThePensacolaBeachResort.com) opened in
COASTAL
renovated property in downtown Gulfport. June facing 800 feet of Gulf waters and 800
HotelWhiskey.com feet off the Bay. The 161 guest rooms and 24
ANNIVERSARIES
corner king executive rooms feature balconies
South Walton and Panama City with spectacular views. There’s also an onsite
1.
The St. Joe Company had a busy year in 2023, fitness center, full-service restaurant, family Biloxi’s Beau Rivage Resort
& Casino, with its spa, 1,645
opening several hotels in the Florida Panhandle. activities and meeting space for business or
guestrooms with Gulf and
Camp Creek Inn boutique property at Inlet destination weddings. Biloxi views and a steady
Beach features 75 guest rooms and a host of Another new property with beach access stream of live performances,
amenities in the Watersound Club’s “Member is Fairfield Inn & Suites at Pensacola Beach marks 25 years on March 15.
for a Stay.” (Marriott.com). The 209-room high-rise provides BeauRivage.MGMResorts.
com
“It’s like a country club hotel,” said David an oasis for outdoor enthusiasts.
Demarest, St. Joe director of public relations “I loved the Fairfield Inn because the pool
and communications. “It’s on the Camp Creek deck is extremely large with two pools, a lazy
2.
In August, the iconic beach-
Golf Course. Guests have access to it all.” river and a whirlpool,” said travel writer Karon
side honky-tonk known as
WaterSoundClub.com Warren who was visiting from Georgia. “The the Flora-Bama celebrates
For those who don’t need to be on the second pool is quieter for those who want to get its 60th anniversary. The leg-
beach, Lodge 30A within the Seagrove Beach away from the crowds at the main pool. I love the endary lounge that straddles
community offers a quieter experience only direct access to the beach and the onsite restau- the Florida/Alabama state line
began its humble beginnings
a half-mile from Gulf waters. Nearby is the rant. For more dining options, you can walk
in 1964 and today offers daily
Point Washington State Forest with a hiking across or right up the street to more choices.” and nightly live music on five
trailhead at the hotel so nature lovers will be stages. It’s also known for
pleased. Bikes are available for rental, as well April’s annual — and possibly
as nearby paddling and fishing opportunities. infamous — Mullet Toss, the
COASTAL DINING Frank Brown International
TheLodge30A.com
Songwriters Festival in No-
In Panama City, Panama City Beach Hotel, Panama City
vember and January’s Polar
a 255-room Embassy Suites flagship hotel Another new addition to Panama City’s growing Bear Dip. FloraBama.com
opened on the beach with restaurant, meeting downtown scene is Harrison’s Kitchen & Bar
rooms and dramatic Gulf views. Hilton.com overlooking the city marina and St. Andrew Bay. 3.
Downtown Panama City has witnessed an The restaurant, named for the city’s founding Sandestin Golf and Beach
encouraging renaissance after the devastation father, serves up coastal cuisine and Southern Resort celebrated 50 years in
of Hurricane Michael in 2018. Hotel Indigo favorites in a laid-back setting. Visitors may 2023, one of the coast’s most
at the city’s marina became another bright enjoy the outdoor patio, inside dining or the visited resort destinations.
The Florida Panhandle resort
spot in a downtown that offers great dining, large oval bar. HarrisonsKitchenandBar.com
offers thousands of lodging
shopping and museums. The hotel features 124 Another new addition to downtown Panama options on the 2,400 acres
rooms with spectacular views of St. Andrew City is aptly named. El Weirdo delivers “tacopub” between Choctawhatchee
Bay where dolphins and pelicans are seen Mexican favorites and craft brews but it’s the Bay and the Gulf of Mexico.
frequently. Be sure to check out the vista with walls of eclectic decorations that keep visitors Visitors may enjoy all the
amenities that come with a
cocktails at the hotel’s rooftop bar. IHG.com busy for they stretch from room to room —
Sandestin stay, such as bike
“The hotel was a big investment in the even within the bathrooms! The eatery was and golf cart paths weav-
area,” Demarest said. “It shows a lot of faith once a food truck that found its home on Oak ing through the landscaped
in the area.” Avenue and now has room inside and out for property, spa, miles of beach
all kind of fun events. ElWeirdoDowntown.com and bay shorelines and, of
Pensacola Hotels course, golf courses. Sand-
Luna Muna Cafebar has opened along the
estin.com
Several hotels have opened in Pensacola over St. Andrew Strip, selling everything from craft
the last two years: downtown’s sustainable coffees and ice cream to locally sourced breakfast
Oyster Bay Boutique Hotel (StayOysterBay. and lunch options. We stopped in for bagels
com) in March 2022, followed in 2023 by the and a lavender latte, the perfect sustenance
former Old Mount Olive Baptist Church turned before hitting the water. LunaMunaCafebar.com
Above: Lodge 20A Right: Oyster Bay Boutique
Hotel Facing page: Top and Middle: Pensacola
Beach Resort Bottom: Hotel Indigo
Alabama Coast
Owners of the famous Flora-Bama have opened
Orange Beach’s only beachfront restaurant.
CoastAl contains an open-air restaurant with
bar and patio seating facing Gulf waters.
“It’s a really pretty spot, casual menu, live
music in the bar most every evening,” said
Gulf Shores travel writer Colette Boehm.
CoastALOrangeBeach.com
Also in Orange Beach, but along the
peninsula that fronts the back bayous, is
the more elegant Bolo Steak and Seafood
specializing in hand-cut steaks, seafood
and small plates and a nightly happy hour.
BoloRestaurantOBA.com
Pensacola
Pensacola native Katie Garrett is the owner/
founder of Old Hickory Whiskey Bar and The
Kennedy Lounge in downtown Pensacola. This
past December she debuted Hermitage Social
Spirits, a tasting experience that includes event
classes such as “Whiskey 101” and “Scotland
Regionals.” HermitageSocialSpirits.com
Coastal Mississippi
Evergreen, which opened in September
in Ocean Springs, sources its sustainable
ingredients from local farmers and purveyors
to create its southern dishes with coastal
influences. EvergreenOceanSprings.com
You can’t miss the bright pink house
where family owned and operated Patrick’s
(formerly Jocelyn’s) caters to seafood lovers.
The restaurant been around for 40 years but
recently rebranded. PatricksOceanSprings.com
In Long Beach, New Orleans owners deliver
Creole fare at CoterieNOLA (CoteriaNOLA.
com) restaurant and oyster bar while Kaiteki
Noodle Bar (KaitekiNoodleBar.com) serves
up Japanese in a comfortable environment.
Enjoy Cajun-style dishes indoor or outdoor
at Bay St. Louis’ Rags to Riches sports bar. Open
daily, they offer live music, signature craft
cocktails and a wine list. RagstoRichesBar.com
Empanola began in New Orleans with
Latin American empanadas and now has two
locations in Biloxi, at 310 Popps Ferry Road
and 1036 Howard Ave. EmpanolaBiloxi.com

TRAVEL BY CHERÉ COEN
Take the Kids” and “Best Attraction

in Key West.”
Dollywood in Pigeon Forge, Tenn.

Dolly Parton loves butterflies, been
on record stating how she admires
their gentle nature and beauty. It’s
appropriate then that she would
use butterflies in her Dollywood
theme park in the heart of the Smoky
Mountains. A butterfly appears as
the “W” in the Dollywood logo, and
the insect is incorporated into the
décor of Dollywood’s DreamMore
Resort and Spa, in everything from
the weave of the hallway carpet
to ornaments on the property’s
Christmas tree each holiday season.
On the Wing Bon Secour National Wildlife

Refuge, Gulf Shores, Ala.
Every fall, butterflies such as the
Celebrate National Butterfly Day at these Southern destinations common buckeye, Gulf fritillary
and viceroy descend upon coastal
Alabama as they migrate from
e love butterflies. Symbols of a Visitors may step inside the large dome that offers Canada down the East Coast and to
metamorphosis, objects of exqui- a rainforest-style atmosphere and be surrounded the Gulf of Mexico. By mid-October,
W site beauty. Poets for centuries

have been extoling their grace,
delicacy and loveliness— and for
by their beauty, some of which will come and light
upon your shoulder. Guests are encouraged to dress
in red, a popular color for 40 to 60 butterfly species,
hundreds of brilliant monarchs can
be spotted along Pine Beach Trail,
where they stop for a snack before
good reason. Their combination of and everyone receives a red silk flower with a nectar they continue their flight to Mexico.
flight and colorful brilliance makes us smile. National tube as they enter the aviary. Guests are issued wrist
Butterfly Day is March 14 and we’ve assembled a bands that are good for three days, so butterfly lovers Closer to Home
few Southern destinations to view and honor the can visit again and again. The 440-foot Elevated Wetlands
mighty butterfly. Boardwalk in Lockport allows visi-
Lost River Cave, Bowling Green, Ky. tors to trek through a swamp to
Panhandle Butterfly House & Nature Center, This unique cave is toured via boat, naturally under- enjoy local flora and fauna and, of
Milton, Fla. ground, but the attraction also features the Charlie course, countless species of birds
More than 160 butterfly species may be found in Florida, Miller Butterfly Habitat that’s open from Memorial Day and butterflies from March to May
while an additional 200 species migrate through the through Labor Day. This indoor garden is filled with and August to early October. The
state annually. The Panhandle Butterfly House, which native nectar plants and is home to butterfly species boardwalk is open daily from dawn
recently moved from Navarre Beach to its expanded like monarchs, painted ladies and giant swallowtails. to dusk.
location in Milton, showcases this colorful insect in its The 400-acre Northlake Nature
vivarium. In addition, they offer a mounted butterfly Key West Butterfly & Nature Conservancy Center on Bayou Castine in
exhibit and educate visitors on how to encourage Hundreds of free-flying butterflies and exotic birds Mandeville allows visitors to hike
butterflies to their own backyards. live inside the glass-domed tropical habitat complete along forest and wetlands trails
with flowering plants and waterfalls, allowing visitors where they may witness reptiles
The Butterfly Palace in Branson, Mo. to enjoy them up close and personal. This Key West and amphibians, interesting plants,
More than 1,000 live butterflies call the Butterfly attraction has been so popular with visitors and mammals and numerous species
Palace home, many imported from around the world. residents alike it’s been named the “Best Place to of birds and butterflies.

H OM E A DVIC E BY LEE CUTRONE / PHOTO BY ADRIENNE BATTISTELLA
Don’t do everything at once

Spread out the cost of window
treatments by doing one room
at a time, especially when not
working with a designer.
Don’t treat every window

the same
Peyroux stocks about 100 different
styles and a 1,000 pair of ready-
made curtains, as well as off-
the-bolt fabrics, custom-order
fabrics, discounted discontinued
fabrics and made-to-order window
coverings.
Don’t shy away from color

While white is a perennial favorite
Neil Peyroux of locals, Peyroux says his interior
designer clients regularly embrace
Spring window treatments color.
Don’t make hardware an

after-thought
indow treatments are currently a popular choice. The higher the rods, the larger
important for multiple “It really depends on the room and the the room will look. Low ceilings:
W reasons — aesthetics,
privacy and energy
efficiency. They also can
needs,” said Peyroux.
Do mix fabrics
1
To spot clean, use

go up to the ceiling; 10-11-foot
ceilings: bottom of the crown
molding; 13-foot and above: half-
be a major investment. The key here, according to Peyroux, is color Ivory liquid soap way between top of window and
and water.
Neil Peyroux, owner of Peyroux’s Custom coordinating fabrics, patterns and trims. bottom of crown.
Curtains, outlines the dos and don’ts.
2
Do go faux Don’t hang rods at different
Do look for ideas While not always less expensive, synthetic Some curtains can heights in a room
be dry cleaned
Peyroux directs clients to the internet and silks and linens are more durable than at the customer’s Keep them all at the same height.
magazines for window treatment ideas that their natural fiber counterparts. own risk.
work with your house. He also counsels “Ask
the advice of a professional.” Do extend the life of your curtains 3
Peyroux suggests lining and interlining to Hire a company

Do Consider the goals help curtains withstand the wear and tear such as Decor About the Experts
FabriCare or Twent-eight years ago, Neil Pey-
If you are just trying to dress a naked window, of sun and other elements. He also notes Fiber-Seal to roux began selling ready-made
stationary curtain panels that don’t need to that, if caught early, some damage can be clean curtains in and custom curtains to the
place.
be fully closed and therefor require less fabric repaired. Curtain panels with fraying on trade. Today, Peyroux’s Custom
Curtains includes a retail show-
may be a way to go. If shade and privacy are the leading edge can be folded over along room, serves a wide clientele
also goals, a relaxed or flat roman shade can the edge or flipped so that the damage is and carries a broad range of
styles. Peyroux’s personal taste
be added underneath. If natural light and on the outside of the window.
leans to the simple elegance of
privacy are desired, Peyroux says sheers are a French pleat curtain.

GROW I NG PA I NS BY EVE CRAWFORD PEYTON / ART BY JANE SANDERS
Finding My Religion
I don’t know exactly what I believe, but Lent means something to me.
In my early years, I public elementary school I attended every Christmas, field trips with pews every weekend as a family.
was not raised with would go down the street to St. the Episcopal Young Churchpeople But despite all of that, I do still
religion. I couldn’t Dominic’s every Wednesday for what to play mini-golf. I even dated the observe Lent every year – making a
even tell you what they called “CCD” and although they priest’s son for a year in high school, sacrifice for all 40 days and avoiding
church my parents’ families raised grumbled about it and told tales and to this day, I am still friends meat on Friday … except during 2020
them in, beyond some flavor of of nuns making kids kneel on rice with many of the No Longer Young when the whole world had gone
Protestant. When I asked my dad until their knees bled, I was still Churchpeople. My mom’s funeral crazy and a friend dropped some
what religion we were, after kids in jealous – of their shared experience, was held at the Chapel years after boudin balls off on our porch and
kindergarten asked me, he smirkingly of their sense of community, and we’d both stopped attending with I eagerly ate three because I had
told me we were “hedonists,” which then – when they made their first any regularity, and they welcomed no idea that it was Friday as days
I fully believed was a legitimate, communions – of their pretty white me back without question. It felt of the week had lost all meaning.
recognized Christian denomination dresses and flower crowns. comfortably familiar at a terribly Besides that, though, which I’m
and claimed as my faith until one I never did get my wish to be uncomfortable time – the same sure God would forgive, I actually take
of my teachers quietly told me to a Catholic schoolgirl, but several smell of incense and wood polish, Lent pretty seriously. Even though
stop telling everyone that. years after my parents divorced, the same slant of light through the I’m not sure precisely what I believe,
Although my father’s descrip- my mom decided she missed going same stained-glass windows, the I do know that sacrifice makes us
tion of himself as a hedonist was to church and so we joined some same ceiling boards I’d counted as more grateful. (I also know it’s a bit
definitely accurate, I, surrounded friends one Sunday morning at a child when I was supposed to be of a stretch to call eating seafood
by Catholicism in New Orleans, the Chapel of the Holy Spirit, an paying attention to the sermon. in New Orleans a sacrifice.) I know
yearned desperately to go to Mass Episcopal church across from The Now, in my 40s, I’m not a regular that it’s good to test our limits on
and wear a plaid uniform skirt and Mushroom on Broadway, and it church-goer. There is a lot about occasion. I know that shared rituals
saddle oxfords. My friends at the became our spiritual home for the organized religion that I don’t love, build community.
rest of my childhood. I was even even though I still consider myself And if nothing else, I know that
baptized there at the ripe old age of 11. Episcopalian and even though my after Carnival season, a period in
I didn’t get a school uniform or a children were baptized Episcopalian which I and everyone else in the
flower crown, but the Chapel, as we and have attended or still attend city join my father as “practicing
Blog called it, did have a lot of what I’d Episcopalian schools (one even gets hedonist,” my liver and my waistline
For more Eve, been seeking: rituals, camaraderie, to wear the plaid skirt I so coveted can both use all the help they can get.
check out her blog a Sunday school teacher whom we as a child). We go to church for A blessed Lent to everyone who
“Joie d’Eve” on
Tuesday mornings at made fun even though we secretly Ash Wednesday and Easter and observes this time – and to everyone
myneworleans.com loved her, Lessons and Carols Christmas, but we are not in the else, please enjoy the fish plates!

TABLE TA L K BY SCOTT GOLD / PHOTOS BY JEFFERY JOHNSTON
New Moon
(bagel with scallion
cream cheese,
salmon roe, avocado,
radish, herbs)
Over the Moon

Mid-City’s Flour Moon Bagels
ew Orleans has always been Kostyk, an East Coast native, got her degree in in Covington, and after that an executive pastry
a town that prides itself on its graphic design. chef job at the Ace Hotel, where the idea to form
N home-grown baked goods.

From huge muffuletta wheels
to lighter-than-air French
“I went to art school in Brooklyn and graduated
in 2008 at the peak of the recession,” Kostyk said,
“and couldn’t find a job to save my life. After
a bagel shop first came into play. Said Kostyk,
“While I was there, one of my chefs said, ‘I’d
really like you to develop a bagel recipe.” And I
loaves stuffed to brimming about a year of being unemployed I joined this was super excited, because obviously I had not
with fried shrimp or oysters, program called ‘Project M,’ which was a select found a bagel I loved and I really missed them, so
not to mention buttermilk drops and beignets, group of 10-15 creative individuals at a design I started experimenting with that and tweaking
no trip to the Crescent City would be complete retreat. The idea was to come up with some project my recipes and realizing that it was a good bagel. I
without an intense carbohydrate binge. But bagels? that benefited the community. We came up with really enjoyed making them and eating them, and
Not so much. Up until recent years, if you had this concept of bringing people together over pie, a lot of our customers, especially from New York,
a hankering for a freshly baked bagel the likes and we created a pie shop/design studio in rural would say, ‘Whoa, this is a really great bagel!’”
of which you might find on the Lower East Side Alabama. I wound up creating a small culinary Following her passion for the perfect bagel
of Manhattan, the best you might get might be program to work with GED students, and I taught led Kostyk to start a pop-up called “Flour Moon”
a dozen shipped frozen from New York. But as them how to bake, and necessary skills to run a during the pandemic lockdown in 2020, where she
the culture tides shift over the years, a number of little restaurant. I wasn’t a cook before that, just and partner Jeff Hinson would turn up at Coffee
enterprising New Orleans bakers became inspired a home baker, so it was all new for me. I ended Science in Mid-City to sell a few dozen over the
to up the bagel game in the 504. up loving it so much, and loving the South, so weekends. New Orleanians, clearly exhilarated
Among these devotees of the mystic art and I ended up moving to Birmingham. And that’s by the idea, flocked to social media by the score
delicate science of bagelry is Breanne Kostyk, when I first got more into restaurants.” to sing their praises. And with that, Kostyk’s
chef and co-owner of Flour Moon Bagels, tucked Kostyk quickly found a gig as a pastry chef once humble dream of maybe opening a bagel
cozily along the Lafitte Greenway in Mid-City. in Alabama, which led her to follow her boss, shop began to turn into a reality. Two years later,
Not that she was born a bagel maven. In fact, lauded Chef Jeffrey Hansell, to open up Oxlot 9 Kostyk and Hinson opened their first brick and

Stein’s Deli
When you find
yourself jonesing for
that classic delica-
tessen experience,
New Orleanians
know that Stein’s is
always the place to
go. From a lox and
schmear on a toasty
Davidovich bagel to
Reubens piled high
with hot corned beef,
breakfast sandwiches
overstuffed with
eggs and cheese that
will destroy even
the most pernicious
hangover, an
enormous selection
of cured meats and
over 50 cheeses from
around the world,
and a massive beer
selection, the LGD
Italian and Jewish
deli has the cure for
what ails you, all
served by beloved
owner Dan Stein,
whose grump-with-
a-heart-of-gold
mortar bagel shop on the Greenway, and onion, olives, herbs and duqqa, to hot smoked schtick has captured
it hit the ground running. As always, the salmon with kimchi cream cheese, pickled the hearts (and
hungry hordes of NOLA know a good thing red cabbage and mustard seeds, and even a social feeds) of New
Orleanians since
when they eat it, and it wasn’t long before whitefish salad that will make smoked fish 2006. Don’t forget
lines stretched out the door of the shop and lovers in the Crescent City relieved that they the salami for your
bubbe! Steinsdeli.
spilled onto the Greenway. don’t have to buy a plane ticket to NYC to com
But what makes Flour Moon’s bagels so get their fix of the good stuff.
crave-worthy and Instagrammable? Like all If that were the sum total of Flour Moon’s
Laurel Street
great baked goods, it’s an amalgam of both ambitions, we would all be happy and better Bakery
artistry and organic chemistry. ““A perfect off for it. But add to that treats for Jewish While no longer
actually on Laurel
bagel has to have that nice crunchy exterior,” holidays like hamantaschen, decadent Street, Laurel Street
said Kostyk. It’s gotta have the chew, you’ve rugelach, chocolate babka, and even an Bakery has delighted
About the Chef got to fight back. But also, I make mine a honest-to-goodness bialy that takes three hungry denizens of
A Connecticut native, chef Bre- the Crescent City
anne Kostyk grew up baking little bit airier than some you might find in days to properly ferment, and the shop takes for years, whether
in the kitchen with her mother, New York. I do use part sourdough and part itself into the stratosphere of quintessential you’re craving a
but it wasn’t until she moved freshly baked bagel
commercial yeast, so it gives it a little more Eastern European baked delights, the likes – including a marble
down South that she found
her true passion in the pastry oomph and depth of flavor than just regular of which we seldom see in the Crescent City. rye version, for
arts. After honing her manage- yeast. But also a bagel that’s full sourdough “We just wanted good food,” Kostyc said, Seinfeld fans – with
ment chops in a fast-casual novel cream cheese
restaurant in Birmingham, she is aggressive at times, so it’s that in-between “something that you might expect from a spreads like bacon
honed her skills and artistry at of flavor and fermentation. They’re definitely fine dining restaurant, flavor-wise, on a shallot or date and
the Veranda on Highland un- honey, a bonanza
not as big as some of the hubcaps you see bagel. We wanted it to be beautiful, especially of beautiful cakes,
der the tutelage of Chef Jeffrey
Hansell, whom she followed to nowadays. After you eat a whole one of our our tartines. That’s definitely how my art deli sandwiches
Covington’s Oxlot 9, and from on house-made
bagels, you won’t leave feeling gross, even has evolved. Originally, I was into drawing
there an executive pastry chef sourdough or
position at the Ace Hotel be- if it’s the hearty egg sandwich. It still feels and painting and graphic design. And that multigrain bread,
fore venturing out on her own manageable.” evolved into pastry, so I was always making or even just a cup
with partner Jeff Hinson to o’ Joe in a warm,
open Flour Moon in the Spring It doesn’t hurt that Flour Moon’s bagels beautiful artwork on a plate, and this is the inviting space, Laurel
of 2022. “I expected this to be aren’t only fabulously delicious, they’re also next evolution of that creativity. And if you Street’s got you
just a little, humble shop,” she covered. If Elvis were
gorgeous. Take, for instance, the “New Moon” create something beautiful, people are going still around (and we
said. “I had two line cooks, I
didn’t have a dishwasher or tartine, which uses the bagel as a palette to to take a photo and share it, and the constant think he is), there’s
a prep cook. I think we had showcase a schmear of scallion cream cheese shares are what generates new customers no doubt he’d go for
two people up front and I “The Memphis,” an
had one baker that was going topped with salmon roe, radishes and herbs, and engagement.” overstuffed bagel
to be part-time. And the first a combination that is just as gustatorially As fun as it is to fill our feeds with mouth- with peanut butter,
weekend we opened, the line bananas, bacon, and
gratifying as it is a feast for the eyes. And watering pics of Flour Moon’s creations, we honey. Laurelstreet
was to the street and we were
like ‘wow!’ Now we’re up to 15 nearly all of the menu items follow suit, know we’ll be coming back to eat. Because bakery.com
team members. We have fun from the “Harvest Moon,” which features a good bagel in New Orleans? That’s a rare
doing it every day, and I love
coming in here.” roasted carrot spread, tahini, cucumber, and special thing, indeed.

CH EERS BY ELIZABETH PEARCE / PHOTO BY EUGENIA UHL
Sugar
and Spice
Makes everything nice
How does a neonatologist open a new

distillery? Ask Dr. Thomas Soltau,
head distiller at Sugarfield Spirits. A boozy
vacation to Oregon’s distilleries inspired
Soltau to try his hand back home in Baton
Rouge. “I started making liqueurs...and got my
brother drunk on a few of them,” he chuckled.
His brother Andrew Soltau’s background in
hospitality cemented a perfect partnership.
Thomas Soltau stresses Sugarfield’s liqueurs
are distinct from most “sugar bombs’’ on the
market, featuring around 25% of a typical
1
liqueur’s sugar content. This makes it easy for
Thomas makes his
their orange liqueur (featuring both Louisiana
50/50 simple syrup us-
sugar and oranges) to step in for the spirit ing cane sugar directly
in this sidecar riff. Sugarfield also makes from the mill. He sug-
gests using turbinado
spirits, including the official vodka of LSU as a replacement.
athletics and a spiced rum made from actual
spices, not extracts. Still, Thomas maintains 2
a real love for their liqueurs. “I have over 100
A popular drink at the
experiments of different liqueurs,” he said. Sugarfield distillery is
an Old Fashioned riff
that replaces most of
the simple syrup with
their barrel-aged or-
Sugarfield Sidecar ange liqueur. Since their
liqueur is not syrupy, a
2 ounces Sugarfield barrel-finished
little extra simple syrup
orange liqueur
may also be added.
0.5 ounce lemon juice
0.5 ounce simple syrup 3
Garnish: orange peel Most Sugarfield prod-

ucts are widely avail-
Shake all ingredients with ice and able, but a trip to their
strain into a coupe. Garnish with an Gonzalez distillery is
orange peel. the only way to sample
their medal-winning
port barrel-aged orange
liqueur. Thomas sips
it neat, but admits it’s
great over premium
vanilla ice cream.
Podcast
Listen to Elizabeth’s
podcast “Drink &
Learn;” visit eliza-
beth-pearce.com

NOSH BY JYL BENSON / PHOTO BY SAM HANNA
1
Ras el Hanout rub

2
Drive yourself
brings exotic flair crazy and make
to anything but, as the focaccia from
it contains no fat, scratch or do your-
some kind of lipid self a favor and
must be intro- buy a sheet from
duced if using it on
Packing
La Boulangerie
ingredients that (4600 Magazine
have none or very St., 504.269.3777,
little of their own. laboulangerienola.
a Punch If using this on
tofu, vegetables,
com). Calling a day
ahead to reserve it
or skinless chicken would be a smart
A sandwich that goes breasts rub on move.
beyond the lunch pail a bit of olive oil
before rubbing on
the Ras el Hanout
The first time I took a bite of this

sandwich at La Boulangerie I
think my eyes rolled back in my
skull. The complex flavors and
textures are simply mind-blowing. The faint
lemony vibrancy imparted to the juicy lamb
by the ground coriander and the sweetness
of the cinnamon in the Ras el Hanout rub
harmonize beautifully with the rich lemon
tang in the mayonnaise and the peppery
bite of the arugula. Yes, you will be roasting
a leg of lamb first, which you can serve for a
special spring dinner with simple roasted root
vegetables or basmati rice, or just go straight
for the sandwich. The sandwiches are special
enough for holiday fare but portable so you
can take your celebration off-site.
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Roasted Lamb Sandwich 4. Roll the lamb (into a very imperfect For Each Sandwich
on Focaccia with Arugula shape) and put it back into the
4 ounces sliced lamb (recipe
and Lemon Mayonnaise mesh casing or roll it and tie it with
above)
Shared by Chef Donald Link, butcher’s twine. This can be done up
Executive Chef + President, Link to 24 hours in advance and stored in Small handful arugula
Restaurant Group the refrigerator.
1 tablespoon French vinaigrette
5. Bring the lamb to room (recipe follows)
For the Lamb temperature (about 90 minutes) then
roast it for 20 minutes. 1 tablespoon lemon mayonnaise
1 boneless lamb leg or shoulder (recipe follows)
roast, about 4 pounds 6. Decrease the heat to 300º and
continue roasting until the thickest 14-inch square focaccia (see
1/4 cup Ras el Hanout (recipe part of the lamb registers 125ºF, NOTES, above)
follows) about 20-25 minutes per pound. 1. Preheat the oven to 400ºF
2 tablespoons kosher salt 7. Set the lamb aside to rest for 20 2. Wrap the lamb in foil (make a
1. Preheat oven to 350ºF. minutes before carving it into thin packet) and place it in the oven.
slices.
2. Remove the mesh casing from 3. Cut the focaccia in half horizon-
the boneless leg or shoulder and tally, add it to the oven, and toast it
set aside. Ras el Hanout to your desired shade.
3. Season all surfaces of the lamb Makes about 2 1/2 cups 4. When the lamb is hot, spread
generously with Ras al Hanout 1/2 cup toasted and ground cumin the interior of the toasted focaccia
and salt. with the Lemon Mayonnaise and
1/2 cup ground ginger top it with the hot lamb
1/4 cup ground cinnamon 5. Toss the arugula with the
vinaigrette.
1/4 cup ground coriander
Top the lamb with the dressed
1/4 cup ground allspice
arugula.
1/4 cup ground nutmeg
6. Close up the works and enjoy
6 tablespoons ground turmeric with either an assertive rosé or a
bold red wine, such as Syrah.
2 tablespoons ground cayenne
2 tablespoons ground black pepper
Basic French Vinaigrette
2 tablespoons ground white pepper
Makes about 1/2 cup
1 tablespoon ground cloves
1 1/2 tablespoons wine vinegar,
1. Combine all spices and mix or a combination of vinegar and
thoroughly. Store in an air-tight lemon juice
container.
1/8 teaspoon fine salt
1/4 to 1/2 teaspoon dry or Dijon
mustard
7 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil
Freshly ground black pepper, to
taste
1 tablespoon minced shallot or
scallion
1. Combine all ingredients in a
mason jar, screw on the lid, and
shake it aggressively. Keeps, refrig-
erated, for 2 weeks
Lemon Mayonnaise
Makes 1 cup
1 cup quality mayonnaise
Zest and juice of 1 lemon
Pinch of kosher salt
Pinch of black pepper
1. Combine all ingredients and
blend thoroughly. Store, refriger-
ated, in a sealed container for up to
1 week.

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Gift your kids the adventure of learning
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Arden Cahill
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Academy’s Camp U inspires campers to find their passions and
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and the arts while building friendships and making memories of a splish-splashing fun is always exciting, the ability to swim confidently
lifetime at Camp U. is a lifelong skill that can save lives. Thankfully, Love Swimming offers
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Sign up for Camp U this summer by emailing option for the Greater New Orleans area, working tirelessly to instill
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MARCH 2024 PROGRAM & EVENTS GUIDE
PROGRAMMING HIGHLIGHTS
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AUSTIN CITY LIMITS “Bonnie Raitt”

WYES-TV/CHANNEL 12 PROGRAM GUIDE | MARCH 2024
Saturday, March 16 at 11pm

ACL Hall of Fame icon Bonnie Raitt returns for the
first time in a decade with a selection of favorites and
highlights from her triple 2023 Grammy-winning album
Just Like That. Photo Credit: Scott Newton; Courtesy of
Austin City Limits
CALL THE MIDWIFE, SEASON 13

Sunday, March 17 at 7pm
It is now 1969 and more babies are being born in hospital
than ever before. Pressure on maternity beds remains
extremely high across the country but Poplar is coping
better than most due to the work of Nonnatus House and
the popularity of home births under the auspices of the
Sisters. Photo Credit: BBC Studios Distribution Limited
MASTERPIECE “Nolly”
Sunday, March 17 at 8pm
Academy Award®-nominated Helena Bonham Carter
(The Crown, Harry Potter) stars in the three-part period
drama. The miniseries shares a surprising slice of British
TV history and celebrates a legendary and dazzling soap
opera star. The Guardian (UK) calls Bonham Carter’s
performance “brilliantly camp” and the series itself
“impeccably put together.” Photo Credit: Quay Street
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lineup in 1984, is joined by longtime producer and panelist
Errol Laborde for this special look back. Discussion will
feature analysis and commentary from several of the local
journalists who have covered some the major news stories
that have shaped our region over the past four decades -
from the World's Fair to Hurricane Katrina and top stories
in politics, the economy, education and the media. While
southeast Louisiana has undergone tremendous change
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stories with insights from local journalists covering the
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3:30pm 9am
YOUNG FOREVER WITH MARK KITCHEN QUEENS: NEW ORLEANS
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WORLD OF WISDOM AND WONDER Explore the passion and pride of Italian
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PBS NEWSHOUR LEGACY chefs in Bologna. Stewards of tradition,
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7pm 10:30am from one generation to the next. Pictured:
INFORMED SOURCES CHEF PAUL PRUDHOMME’S ALWAYS The Michelangeli sisters create a wood
COOKING! sculpture of an owl, following their father’s
7:30pm business and passion for wood art. Photo
LOUISIANA: THE STATE WE’RE IN 11am Credit: Thomas Jacobi
SUZE ORMAN’S ULTIMATE
8pm RETIREMENT GUIDE 3:30pm
WASHINGTON WEEK WITH THE ATLANTIC RICK STEVES’ EUROPEAN EASTER
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FIRING LINE WITH MARGARET HOOVER JOHNNY MATHIS: WONDERFUL,
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KEN BURNS: THE CIVIL WAR
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Ella Fitzgerald and also features the only
6pm filmed meeting of Sinatra and Brazilian
THE LAWRENCE WELK SHOW “Gold bossa nova legend Antonio Carlos Jobim.
Record Hits”
TICKET OFFER 8pm
7pm BARBRA STREISAND: BACK TO
BEE GEES: ONE NIGHT ONLY BROOKLYN features guest trumpeter Chris
9pm Botti, singing group Il Volo and Streisand’s
MICHAEL FLATLEY’S LORD OF THE son, actor-director Jason Gould.
DANCE: THE IMPOSSIBLE TOUR The
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generation, led onstage by Michael Flatley’s MEMORY MAKEOVER WITH DANIEL
handpicked successor: Lord of the Dance AMEN, MD
Matt Smith, one of only four people in the
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Michael Flatley’s Lord of the Dance: The
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the Performing Arts. Tickets are $160 per
person and help support WYES. 10:30pm 2:30pm
AMERICAN POP FLASHBACK! GREAT BEE GEES: IN OUR OWN TIME Explore the
10:30pm HITS OF THE ’60s AND ’70s Featuring Glen story of one of the best-selling music acts
STEPPIN’ OUT Campbell, The Osmond Brothers, Lesley of all time, told in their own words by Barry
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AMANPOUR AND COMPANY more music icons. Hosted by Micky Dolenz interviews, videos, TV appearances and live
(The Monkees). performances.
2 SATURDAY 4:30pm
3 SUNDAY BEE GEES: ONE NIGHT ONLY
7am
RAISING MENTALLY STRONG KIDS WITH 10am 6pm
DANIEL AMEN, MD Raising mentally AMERICA’S HOME COOKING GADGETS PBS NEWSHOUR
strong kids and young adults is the most AND GIZMOS
important work parents and grandparents 7pm
ever do. Yet, parenting seems harder Noon JOHN DENVER’S ROCKY MOUNTAIN
now than ever before with social media, YOUNG FOREVER WITH MARK HYMAN, MD HIGH
digital addictions, and the epidemic rise
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WEEKDAYS ON 8:30pm
CAROLE KING & JAMES TAYLOR: JUST
6 WEDNESDAY
CALL OUT MY NAME LIVE showcases 2pm
the two entwined artists as they play out EASY YOGA FOR ARTHRITIS WITH
beloved songs from throughout their PEGGY CAPPY
career. It also includes interviews with
each artist as they dissect their respective 3pm
back catalogues and their distinguished JOHN DENVER’S ROCKY MOUNTAIN
careers. HIGH
10:30pm 4:30pm
THIS LAND IS YOUR LAND RICK STEVES’ MIGHTY ALPS
6pm
5 TUESDAY PBS NEWSHOUR
2pm 7pm
RICK STEVES’ TASTY EUROPE ALL NEW ROCK, POP AND DOO WOP
2:30pm 9pm
JOHNNY MATHIS: WONDERFUL, CONCERT FOR GEORGE
7am WONDERFUL
LYLA IN THE LOOP 11pm
AMANPOUR AND COMPANY
Seven-year-old Lyla and her
close-knit family address
everyday problems together in 7 THURSDAY
the big city. Photo Credit: LYLA
IN THE LOOP™ / © 2023 Mighty 2pm
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GUNDRY, MD
3:30pm
4pm EASY YOGA FOR STRENGTH AND
BLACK BROADWAY: A PROUD HISTORY, BALANCE WITH PEGGY CAPPY helps
A LIMITLESS FUTURE Celebrate increase your range of motion and
legendary performances and roles improve awareness of your body.
5am 10am
ARTHUR DONKEY HODIE made famous by Black artists as well as
the new generation of Black Broadway 4:30pm
5:30am 10:30am stars. An acclaimed cast performs ROY ORBISON AND FRIENDS: BLACK
ODD SQUAD PINKALICIOUS & classic songs from The Wiz, The Color AND WHITE NIGHT
PETERRIFIC Purple, Company, Porgy & Bess, Ain’t
6am Misbehavin’ and more. Pictured: Emmy,
MOLLY OF 11am 6pm
DENALI ELINOR Tony, and SAG-Award nominee Norm PBS NEWSHOUR
WONDERS WHY Lewis Photo Credit: Nouveau Productions
6:30am 7pm
ALMA’S WAY 11:30am 6pm STEPPIN’ OUT
NATURE CAT PBS NEWSHOUR
7am
LYLA IN THE NOON 7:30pm
LOOP CURIOUS 7pm BRITISH ANTIQUES ROADSHOW
GEORGE 70’s SOUL SUPERSTARS Soul diva Patti
7:30am LaBelle hosts the historic reunion of 8pm
WILD KRATTS 12:30pm classic recording artists of the decade, PBS NEWSHOUR SPECIAL REPORT:
XAVIER RIDDLE including the Commodores, original STATE OF THE UNION
8am AND THE SECRET
DANIEL TIGER’S MUSEUM lead Eugene Record reuniting with the
NEIGHBORHOOD Chi-Lites, the Stylistics, Yvonne Elliman, 10pm
1pm Heatwave, Earl Young’s Trammps, the RENAISSANCE WOMAN RESTORED
8:30am DANIEL TIGER’S Emotions and the Manhattans.
ROSIE’S RULES NEIGHBORHOOD
9:30pm
9am 1:30pm
SESAME STREET ARTHUR BEE GEES: ONE NIGHT ONLY
9:30am 11pm
WORK IT OUT SUPER TUESDAY 2024—A PBS NEWS
WOMBATS! SPECIAL REPORT
11:30pm
10:30pm
CALL THE MIDWIFE, SEASON 12
(Pt. 7/8) Preparations for Trixie and
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Matthew’s wedding are underway. A joyous 11 MONDAY
occasion brings everyone together. Watch
the premiere of Season 13 on Sunday, 6pm
March 17 at 7pm. Photo Credit: BBC / Neal PBS NEWSHOUR
Street Productions / Olly Courtney
11:30pm

8 FRIDAY 3pm
THE EVERLY BROTHERS: HARMONIES
2pm FROM HEAVEN specifically delves into Phil
SUZE ORMAN’S ULTIMATE and Don’s relationship with the songwriting
RETIREMENT GUIDE team of Felice and Boudleaux Bryant, who
provided many of their early hits, including 7pm
4pm their first million-seller “Bye Bye Love.” ANTIQUES ROADSHOW “LSU Rural Life
MEMORY MAKEOVER WITH DANIEL Museum” (Hour 2/3) Head to Louisiana’s
4:30pm capital for captivating finds including a
6pm BURT BACHARACH’S BEST 1995 Muhammad Ali-signed tablecloth;
PBS NEWSHOUR a Panerai Radiomir watch with Rolex
6pm movement and a Frederick Douglass letter
7pm THE LAWRENCE WELK SHOW “History of & Free Will Baptist Church archive. One is
INFORMED SOURCES the Lawrence Welk Musical Family” worth up to $110,000! Pictured: Michael
Larsen (right) appraises an Art Smith
7:30pm 7pm Modernette cuff bracelet, ca. 1945. Photo
LOUISIANA: THE STATE WE’RE IN 70’s SOUL SUPERSTARS Credit: Meredith Nierman for GBH, © 2023
WGBH Educational Foundation
8pm 9:30pm
WASHINGTON WEEK WITH THE ATLANTIC THE ALL NEW ROCK, POP AND DOO WOP 8pm
ANTIQUES ROADSHOW “Birmingham”
8:30pm 11:30pm (Hour 2/3)
FIRING LINE WITH MARGARET HOOVER LOVE TRAIN: THE SOUNDS OF
PHILADELPHIA features soul and R&B 9pm
9pm superstars The O Jays, Harold Melvin’s Blue THEY SWUNG THEIR PICKS: THE IRISH
RICK STEVES’ EUROPEAN EASTER Notes, Russell Thompkins and the New & THE NEW BASIN CANAL tells the story
Stylistics, Jerry Butler, The Soul Survivors, of a six-mile waterway linking Uptown
10:30pm The Delphonics, and many more. New Orleans and Lake Pontchartrain that
STEPPIN’ OUT was built by Irish canal diggers beginning
in December 1831 and is considered the
11pm 10 SUNDAY greatest public works project of 19th
AMANPOUR AND COMPANY century New Orleans.
10am
AMERICA’S HOME COOKING: EASY 10pm
9 SATURDAY RECIPES FOR THRIFTY COOKING 10 TOWNS THAT CHANGED AMERICA
7am Noon 11pm

SUZE ORMAN’S ULTIMATE RETIREMENT BIG BAND YEARS AMANPOUR AND COMPANY
GUIDE
2pm
9am JUST ONE THING WITH STEVEN 12 TUESDAY
KITCHEN QUEENS: NEW ORLEANS GUNDRY, MD
6pm
9:30am 3:30pm PBS NEWSHOUR
KEVIN BELTON’S COOKIN’ LOUISIANA MEMORY MAKEOVER WITH DANIEL
AMEN, MD 7pm
10am FINDING YOUR ROOTS WITH HENRY
THE DOOKY CHASE KITCHEN: LEAH’S 5:30pm LOUIS GATES, JR., SEASON 8 “Things We
LEGACY THIS LAND IS YOUR LAND Don’t Discuss”
10:30am CHEF PAUL PRUDHOMME’S 7pm 8pm

ALWAYS COOKING! JOHN DENVER’S ROCKY MOUNTAIN AMERICAN EXPERIENCE “The Sun
HIGH Queen”
11am
AMERICA’S HOME COOKING: EASY 8:30pm 9pm
RECIPES FOR THRIFTY COOKING Learn SUZE ORMAN’S ULTIMATE RETIREMENT FRONTLINE “Lethal Restraint”
how to create recipes that are easy on the GUIDE
cook and the pocketbook. 10pm
10:30pm FRONTLINE “Shots Fired”
1pm ROY ORBISON AND FRIENDS: BLACK AND
MEMORY MAKEOVER WITH DANIEL WHITE NIGHT 11pm
AMEN, MD AMANPOUR AND COMPANY
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SATURDAYS ON 13 WEDNESDAY 15 FRIDAY
6pm 6pm
PBS NEWSHOUR PBS NEWSHOUR
7pm 7pm
NATURE “Australian Bushfire Rescue” INFORMED SOURCES
8pm 7:30pm
NOVA “Hidden Volcano Abyss” LOUISIANA: THE STATE WE’RE IN
9pm 8pm
NOVA “Arctic Sinkholes” WASHINGTON WEEK WITH THE
ATLANTIC
10pm
ITALIAN NEW ORLEANS documents the 8:30pm
history of the Italians who came to New FIRING LINE WITH MARGARET
Orleans as laborers, cobblers and fruit HOOVER
vendors adding to the ethnic riches of
the Crescent City. Narrated by Bob Del
Giorno.
9:30am 11pm
KEVIN BELTON’S COOKIN’ LOUISIANA AMANPOUR AND COMPANY
In his fourth public television series with
WYES-TV, Chef Belton explores the rich and
multi-faceted foodways of Louisiana. From 14 THURSDAY
Chicken and Dumplings, one of the Delta
Delights from Northeast Louisiana, to Cracklin 6pm 9pm
Cornbread from Evangeline Parish in the PBS NEWSHOUR GREAT PERFORMANCES AT THE MET
Cajun Heartland, the series will take viewers “Dead Man Walking” Experience Ivo
on a fun-filled food odyssey with the 6’9” van Hove’s production of composer
gregarious chef. Jake Heggie’s opera in its Met premiere.
With a libretto by Terrence McNally,
Joyce DiDonato stars as Sister Helen
5am 10:30am Prejean, based on the real-life memoir
MISTER ROGERS’ CHEF PAUL of this New Orleans nun and her fight for
NEIGHBORHOOD PRUDHOMME'S the soul of a condemned murderer.
ALWAYS COOKING
5:30am
ARTHUR 11am 7pm 16 SATURDAY
LIDIA’S KITCHEN STEPPIN’ OUT Host and producer
6am
MOLLY OF DENALI Peggy Scott Laborde welcomes regular 6pm
11:30am
AMERICA’S guests Poppy Tooker, Alan Smason, plus THE LAWRENCE WELK SHOW “Behind
6:30am TEST KITCHEN new roundtable visitors every week the Scenes with our Musical Family”
ALMA’S WAY FROM COOK’S to discuss New Orleans restaurants,
ILLUSTRATED arts and entertainment. All episodes 7pm
7am available on WYES’ YouTube channel. ANTIQUES ROADSHOW “LSU Rural
J. SCHWANKE’S NOON Life Museum” (Hour 2/3)
LIFE IN BLOOM COOK’S COUNTRY 7:30pm
7:30am BRITISH ANTIQUES ROADSHOW 8pm
12:30pm FINDING YOUR ROOTS WITH HENRY
WOODSMITH SHOP CHRISTOPHER
KIMBALL'S 8pm LOUIS GATES, JR., SEASON 8 “Things
8am MILK STREET AGATHA CHRISTIE’S MARPLE, We Don’t Discuss”
THIS OLD HOUSE TELEVISION SEASON 2 “The Sittaford Mystery”
(Pt. 4/4) 9pm
8:30am 1pm AMERICAN MASTERS “Mae West”
ASK THIS OLD GREAT CHEFS OF 9:30pm
HOUSE NEW ORLEANS AGATHA CHRISTIE’S POIROT, SEASON 10:30pm
9am 2 “Adventure of the Cheap Flat” PBS ARTS TALK
1:30pm
KITCHEN QUEENS: THE KEY (Pt. 8/10)
NEW ORLEANS INGREDIENT WITH
SHERI CASTLE 10:30pm
9:30am CALL THE MIDWIFE, SEASON 12
KEVIN BELTON’S 2pm (Pt. 8/8) Watch the premiere of Season
COOKIN’ PATI'S MEXICAN 13 on Sunday, March 17 at 7pm.
LOUISIANA TABLE HIGHLIGHT
10am 11:30pm
2:30pm
THE DOOKY CHASE SARA'S AMANPOUR AND COMPANY
KITCHEN: WEEKNIGHT MEALS
LEAH’S LEGACY 11pm
AUSTIN CITY LIMITS “Bonnie Raitt”
D12 DIAL 12 | January 2019
ACL Hall of Fame icon Bonnie Raitt returns 11pm
for the first time in a decade with a selection LUNA AND SOPHIE “The Curse of the
of favorites and highlights from her triple Good Deed” (Pt. 6/10) In German with
2023 Grammy-winning album Just Like English subtitles.
That. Photo Credit: Scott Newton; Courtesy of
Austin City Limits
18 MONDAY
17 SUNDAY 6pm
PBS NEWSHOUR

10pm
7pm DR. NORMAN C. FRANCIS: A LEGACY
ANTIQUES ROADSHOW “Philbrook OF LEADERSHIP In honor of Dr. Francis’
Museum” (Hour 1/3) 93rd birthday, WYES will air the 2022
documentary honoring his monumental
8pm life. Produced by Thanh Truong. Narrated
DANTE: INFERNO TO PARADISE (Pt. 1/2) by Sally-Ann Roberts.
A landmark two-part documentary by Ric
PREMIERE Burns, chronicles the life and work of the 11pm
great 14th century Florentine poet, Dante AMANPOUR AND COMPANY
Alighieri, exploring the inner world and
legacy of his incomparable literary creation,
7pm “The Divine Comedy.” 21 THURSDAY
CALL THE MIDWIFE, SEASON 13 (Pt. 1/8) It
is now 1969, and the period drama returns 10pm 6pm
with Poplar coping with the popularity POV “Unseen” Through experimental PBS NEWSHOUR
of home births under the auspices of the cinematography and sound, the film
Sisters. Season 13 will also see stories of reimagines the accessibility of cinema, 7pm
poor housing challenges and health issues while exploring the intersections of STEPPIN’ OUT
for the nurses, midwives, and nuns of the immigration, disability and mental health.
Nonnatus House. Repeats Thursdays at A Co-Presentation with Latino Public 7:30pm
10:30pm. Photo Credit: BBC Studios / Neal Broadcasting. BRITISH ANTIQUES ROADSHOW
Street Productions
11:30pm 8pm
8pm AMANPOUR AND COMPANY AGATHA CHRISTIE’S MARPLE, SEASON 3
MASTERPIECE “Nolly” (Pt. 1/3) In the “At Bertram’s Hotel” (Pt. 1/4)
series premiere, Helena Bonham Carter
stars as soap opera legend Noele “Nolly” 19 TUESDAY 9:30pm
Gordon, one of the most famous faces AGATHA CHRISTIE’S POIROT, SEASON 2
on British TV in the 1960s and 70s, whose 6pm “The Kidnapped Prime Minister”
unceremonious firing from her hit show PBS NEWSHOUR (Pt. 9/10)
at the height of her career was front-page
news. 7pm 10:30pm
FINDING YOUR ROOTS WITH HENRY CALL THE MIDWIFE, SEASON 13 (Pt. 1/8)
LOUIS GATES, JR., SEASON 9
“Hidden Kin” 11:30pm
8pm
DANTE: INFERNO TO PARADISE (Pt. 2/2)
22 FRIDAY
10pm
LITERARY NEW ORLEANS is a close-up 6pm
PREMIERE look at the city’s most famous literary works PBS NEWSHOUR
and authors. Produced and narrated by
Peggy Scott Laborde. 7pm
INFORMED SOURCES All episodes
9pm 11pm available on WYES’ YouTube channel.
MASTERPIECE “Alice & Jack” (Pt. 1/6) AMANPOUR AND COMPANY
When Alice (Andrea Riseborough) and
Jack (Domhnall Gleeson) first meet they’re
bound by a connection so powerful it 20 WEDNESDAY
seems nothing can break it, but will their
path lead them to a place of happiness and 6pm
togetherness? Or will life and their own PBS NEWSHOUR
emotional complexities get in the way?
Photo Credit: Fremantle 7pm
NATURE “Sharks of Hawaii” HIGHLIGHT
10pm
NINA “In Her Image” (Pt. 4/8) In French 8pm
with English subtitles. NOVA “Polar Extremes” 7:30pm
INFORMED SOURCES “40th Anniversary
Special” Host Marcia Kavanaugh, who
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created the program which joined stories and sing-a-long music that
SUNDAYS ON the WYES Friday night lineup in 1984,
is joined by longtime producer and
celebrated their art, their journeys and
their impact on the Austin City Limits
panelist Errol Laborde for this special legacy.
look back. Discussion will feature
analysis and commentary from several
of the local journalists who have 24 SUNDAY
covered the major news stories that
have shaped our region over the past 7pm
four decades. CALL THE MIDWIFE, SEASON 13
(Pt. 2/8) Shelagh and Joyce assist a

8pm heavily pregnant woman dealing with
WASHINGTON WEEK WITH THE a severe mold infestation in her new
ATLANTIC flat. Nancy attends a “Raise the Roof
Campaign” meeting against some of
8:30pm her peers’ wishes. Trixie takes secret
FIRING LINE WITH MARGARET driving lessons from Fred.
HOOVER
1:30pm
IRELAND WITH MICHAEL 9pm
MENUS-PLAISIRS — LES TROISGROS 8pm
Combining glorious video footage from Legendary documentary filmmaker MASTERPIECE “Nolly” (Pt. 2/3)
the Emerald Isle, fascinating travel Frederick Wiseman explores the Nolly’s last day on Crossroads is
destinations, exciting cultural experiences, lives and famed culinary artistry of approaching, and she is desperate
and performances from Irish stars, IRELAND the Troigros family in the French to know what will happen to her
WITH MICHAEL allows you to tour Ireland countryside, taking viewers from character…but her farewell is so
from your own home. sourcing ingredients and menu shocking that nobody in the cast could
planning, to the organized chaos have predicted it. Pictured: Helena
of the kitchen, to the ingenuity and Bonham Carter as Noele Gordon (Nolly)
creation of a dish. The film was and Augustus Prew as Tony Adams
5am 9:30am
selected as the best non-fiction film Photo Credit: Quay Street Productions
MISTER ROGERS’ INFORMED
of 2023 by the New York, Los Angeles, and MASTERPIECE
NEIGHBORHOOD SOURCES
and National Film Critics Associations.
In French with English subtitles. Photo 9pm
5:30am 10am
Credit: Zipporah Films MASTERPIECE “Alice & Jack”
ARTHUR VARIOUS
(Pt. 2/6) Jack is now happily married to
PROGRAMMING
Lynn with a baby when an unexpected
6am
23 SATURDAY call from Alice turns his life upside
MOLLY OF DENALI 11am
down. Torn by his feelings for Alice,
KEVIN BELTON’S
6:30am 6pm Jack decides to see her in secret with
COOKIN’
ALMA’S WAY THE LAWRENCE WELK SHOW devastating consequences.
LOUISIANA
“Easter”
7am 10pm
11:30am
LYLA IN THE 7pm NINA “Way Out” (Pt. 5/8) In French
THE DOOKY
LOOP ANTIQUES ROADSHOW “Philbrook with English subtitles.
CHASE KITCHEN:
Museum” (Hour 2/3)
LEAH’S LEGACY
7:30am 11pm
WILD KRATTS 8pm LUNA AND SOPHIE “Ballroom/
NOON
FINDING YOUR ROOTS WITH HENRY Killing” (Pt. 7/10) In German with
ANTIQUES
8am LOUIS GATES, JR., SEASON 9 English subtitles.
ROADSHOW
TBD “Hidden Kin”
1pm
8:30am 9pm 25 MONDAY
RICK STEVES'
LOUISIANA THE AMERICAN EXPERIENCE “The Vote”
EUROPE
STATE WE’RE IN (Pt. 1-2/4) 6pm
PBS NEWSHOUR
1:30pm
9am 11pm
IRELAND WITH
FIRING LINE AUSTIN CITY LIMITS 9TH ANNUAL 7pm
MICHAEL
WITH HALL OF FAME HONORS TRISHA ANTIQUES ROADSHOW “LSU Rural
MARGARET YEARWOOD Both Yearwood and Life Museum” (Hour 3/3)
HOOVER legendary singer/songwriter John
Prine were inducted into the Austin City 8pm
Limits Hall of Fame over a very special ANTIQUES ROADSHOW
night of heartfelt speeches, tribute “Birmingham” (Hour 3/3)
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9pm other new A.I. tools can now answer writing about philosophy, ethnicity and
HOLY NEW ORLEANS complex questions, write essays, and architecture as he was rethinking the Social
generate realistic-looking images in a Security and welfare systems.
10pm matter of seconds. They can even pass a
INDEPENDENT LENS “Greener Pastures/ lawyer’s bar exam. Should we celebrate? 10:30pm
If Dreams Were Lightning” Or worry? Or both? Photo Credit: ©Yuichiro STEPPIN’ OUT
Chino via Getty Images
26 TUESDAY 11pm
9pm AMANPOUR AND COMPANY
6pm NOVA “Star Chasers of Senegal”

PBS NEWSHOUR
10pm 30 SATURDAY
7pm NORTHERN NIGHTS, STARRY SKIES
FINDING YOUR ROOTS WITH HENRY A visually stunning celebration of our 6pm
LOUIS GATES, JR., SEASON 9 “Secret spectacular starry skies above the world’s THE LAWRENCE WELK SHOW “Tribute to
Lives” largest designated Dark Sky sanctuary. the Sweet Bands”
11pm 7pm
AMANPOUR AND COMPANY ANTIQUES ROADSHOW “LSU Rural Life
Museum” (Hour 3/3) wraps up a three-part
visit to the Red Stick city, featuring Michael
28 THURSDAY Jordan-signed Air Jordan XII shoes from
1997, a Patek Philippe gold wristwatch circa
6pm 1915 and a diamond and platinum ring
HIGHLIGHT PBS NEWSHOUR circa 2000.
7pm 8pm
8pm STEPPIN’ OUT FINDING YOUR ROOTS WITH HENRY
AMERICAN EXPERIENCE “The Cancer LOUIS GATES, JR., SEASON 9 “Secret
Detectives” Discover the story of the 7:30pm Lives”
fight against cervical cancer and the three BRITISH ANTIQUES ROADSHOW
fascinating figures — a Greek immigrant 9pm
doctor, a Japanese-American illustrator 8pm AMERICAN EXPERIENCE “The Vote”
and a Black woman OBGYN — whose work AGATHA CHRISTIE’S MARPLE, SEASON 3 (Pt. 3-4/4)
slashed death rates from the disease by “Ordeal by Innocence” (Pt. 2/4)
over 60 percent. Pictured: Dr. Helen Dickens, 11pm
a trailblazing Black OBGYN who made it 9:30pm AUSTIN CITY LIMITS “Brandy Clark/
her mission to ensure that Black women AGATHA CHRISTIE’S POIROT, SEASON 2 Charley Crockett”
had access to the life-saving Pap test. Photo “The Adventure of the Western Star”
Credit: Jayne Henderson Brown (Pt. 10/10)
31 SUNDAY
9pm 10:30pm
THE INVISIBLE SHIELD “The New CALL THE MIDWIFE, SEASON 13 (Pt. 2/8) 7pm
Playbook” Discover how experts are CALL THE MIDWIFE, SEASON 13 (Pt. 3/8)
rethinking the public health system to 11:30pm The Nonnatus team is thrown into turmoil
change course as life expectancy declines. AMANPOUR AND COMPANY when a newborn baby is diagnosed with
bilateral hip dysplasia.
10pm
EXTRA LIFE: A SHORT HISTORY OF LIVING 29 FRIDAY 8pm
LONGER “Vaccines” (Pt. 1/4) MASTERPIECE “Nolly” (Pt. 3/3) Nolly is
6pm working in the cut-throat world of theatre,
11pm PBS NEWSHOUR still haunted by the question: why was
AMANPOUR AND COMPANY she fired from Crossroads? But when an
7pm unexpected answer arrives, can she seize
INFORMED SOURCES the chance to reprise her role as Meg for one
27 WEDNESDAY final curtain call?
7:30pm
6pm LOUISIANA: THE STATE WE’RE IN 9pm
PBS NEWSHOUR MASTERPIECE “Alice & Jack” (Pt. 3/6)
8pm Years after their last encounter, Jack
7pm WASHINGTON WEEK WITH THE ATLANTIC receives a surprise invitation from Alice.
NATURE “Remarkable Rabbits” Their feelings for each other soon surface,
8:30pm raising doubts about whether Alice is ready
FIRING LINE WITH MARGARET HOOVER to be in a relationship with anyone right
now.
9pm
AMERICAN MASTERS “Moynihan” 10pm
Ta-Nehis Coates, Eleanor Holmes Norton, NINA “Holding on Too Tight” (Pt. 6/8)
George Will and Henry Kissinger give In French with English subtitles.
insight into Daniel Patrick Moynihan, a
"connoisseur of statistics" who served 11pm
8pm four presidents, anticipated the breakup of LUNA AND SOPHIE “Robin Hoods”
NOVA “A.I. Revolution” ChatGPT and the Soviet Union, and was as comfortable (Pt. 8/10) In German with English subtitles.
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Streetcar BY ERROL LABORDE / ART BY ARTHUR NEAD
Joseph
Season of the Saint
here was once a tradition that brides-to-be often
T wanted to get married at St. Joseph church on Tulane

Avenue because of the length of its aisle - the longest
in the city (all the better for the girl and dress to be
displayed before the tearful but happy congregation).
Built in 1893, the church once anchored a thriving
area that bordered downtown. Over the years, as the surrounding area
expanded into a medical center, and as the population spread toward the
suburbs, the church lost its neighborhood parish; but still has its followers.
Each year, in the days surrounding St. Joseph’s Day (March 19), visitors
climb the steps to see the St. Joseph altar built for the namesake’s feast day.
Given his biblical status as the husband of the Blessed Virgin Mary who
bore Jesus, a situation best deferred to the New Testament, Joseph is one
of the big names in the pantheon of saints. Among his titles is “Patron
Saint of Sicily,” yet New Orleans may be the city on the globe, even more
so than in Palermo, where he is most celebrated.
In one of history’s domino effects, the saga of the Sicilians in New Orleans part of one Black community’s tradition. There were two days each year
and the impact that it would have on defining a cultural celebration having when the Mardi Gras Indians paraded; one was Mardi Gras, the other was
nothing to do with Joseph, goes like this…hang on: Joseph’s Day or the closest Sunday to it. Since the feast was always during
After the American Civil War and the freeing of the enslaved people, Lent, celebrating Joseph was like having a one-day pass on the solemnity.
there were few laborers left to work the fields. Eventually, the Indians’ Lenten Sunday was standardized and re-named
Local agriculture needed to recruit workers from other countries to work “Super Sunday,” but it started with Joseph.
here, quite often with the intent of eventually retuning home with some As faith would have it, the Feast Day for the patron of the other Europeans
of their earnings. Many, however, stayed. Catholic group in the city, the Irish (Feb. 17), is only two days apart. Both
Sicily was a promising area for recruitment. It was agricultural. Its the Irish and the Italians have parades, which happen to fall right in the
climate was much like Louisiana’s. It had a Catholic population. It was solemn period of penance. It is good when you have two saints on your side.
reachable by ship. In 2006, on the first St. Joseph’s Day after Katrina, we were riding
By the late 1890s, the Sicilian population in Louisiana was burgeoning around town just to see if there was much altar activity. In better years,
with immigrants. Many would eventually settle in New Orleans, especially it is common to see homes, many classic shotguns or doubles, or some
in the French Quarter near the produce markets where they found work. using their carports, open for visitors to view the food altars laboriously
As they assimilated, some opened shop and brought with them recipes built as thanks to Joseph. I have been to many altars but never to one like
from the old country. Among them was immigrant Angelo Brocato who what I saw while driving down Elysian Fields that day. At that time many
specialized in pastries and ice creams. people were living in “FEMA trailers,” small wheeled units provided by the
Another shop created a sandwich, the muffuletta, which was a New Orleans government to compensate for damaged housing. The silver trailers, parked
invention, but that used Sicilian meats, cheeses and, most importantly, around town, sparkled from the sun. They all looked alike except for one
olives. A company called Progresso imported olive oil. The kitchens in that had a sign on the side announcing a St. Joseph altar within. That I had
the this once French city were enhanced by new fragrances such as anise, to see. At the trailer’s steps a delightful Creole lady greeted us. She lived
garlic, tomatoes and mozzarella. alone in the trailer but was nevertheless filled with enthusiasm. She had
Sicilian groceries were gathering points in their neighborhoods. baked cookies and cakes in the tiny kitchen, with prepared pasta dishes
Among their clientele were local Black families. Many, especially the and had fruits and vegetable as decorations. As is common to all altars, she
Creole Catholics, became familiar with Joseph, who they appreciated as had a dish of fava beans, one a piece for those craving a little more luck.
being the patron of workers, but also because, in season, they would see Anyone who was living in a FEMA trailer those days had a rough road
St. Joseph Day altars in the back of the stores. Joseph’s Feast even became ahead of them, but blessed were those who had something to believe in.

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