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…a finger of Booker’s to see what the whole “cask strength” thing is all about before searching for your own bottle? (Don’t worry, “finger” is a measurement in the bourbon…

Imagine a century ago, a young Chinese couple aboard a freighter in the North Pacific, Guangdong Province far astern, steaming east in search of Gam Sahn, or “golden mountain,” a…

…period between the 1880s through the 1920s saw the arrival in America of more than four million mostly Southern Italian immigrants who’d left their homeland in search of work and…

…along scenic Bayou Teche. And foodies in search of boudin or shrimp Creole, armed with Macon Fry and Julie Posner’s fabulous 1992 Cajun Country Guide, have come for the town’s…

…Google search for a man once as powerful and ubiquitous as James E. Comiskey yields almost nothing of value. One is just as hard-pressed to find an image of his…

…and gumbo in French. The French term, which is taken from the work ki-ngombo in one of the Angolan languages, has given us the term gumbo.” One reason people might…

…I had never encountered the term Hoppin’ John until I began working at a French Quarter restaurant last winter. Chef Greg Sonnier at Kingfish offers a Hoppin’ John salad on…

…then called “Acadie.” The French settlers, principally from the Poitou-Charentes and Vendée regions of west-central France, referred to themselves as les Acadiens. The British would use the term Acadians; later…

My Rouses Everyday, January | February 2018 I have some terrific news to report from the world of hangover research: Science has discovered a cure! Actually, two cures: Don’t start…

…in the system — we could prevent that. It makes sense,” he says. “And for the results that we wanted to have, our program had to be long-term. It had…

…make an interesting pattern after the bruccialuna was cooked. We would roll up the meat and then tie it with string. Nana would salt and pepper the outside, then brown…

…neighborhood backstreets, searching for other tribes, eager for a chance to show off the handiwork they’ve created during marathon sewing sessions where they turned sheets of blank cloth into wearable…

…break anything. Favorites included fetching black-eyed peas from the linen pillowcase in the outside freezer and snapping the stems from metric tons of garden string beans to setting the table…

…bowls filled out the rest of the plate — string beans flavored with slab bacon, okra smothered with tomato, buttery, bright yellow squash or ice-cold pineapple chunks — all accompanied…

…to the pot a bouquet garni — a bundle of fresh parsley, thyme and bay leaves tied together with a little string. (In addition to really elevating the flavor of…

…farmers, day laborers and fishermen leaving dire economic situations in search of work and a better life. New Orleans, in particular, had long been a desirable gateway for Sicilians, as…

When I was asked to write about brides and crash diets, I did a little Google search of the phrase, “wedding crash diet.” What came up were countless pages of…

…of turkey preparation most likely to cause horrible, lifelong suffering is deep-frying. It’s a great way to prepare a turkey in terms of speed and flavor (I mean, c’mon, it’s…

…to Tom’s Candy Sales in search of something different (and less costly) to replace the full-size candy bars they had thrown in the past. McClure relates that MoonPies “were so…

…game. (For proof, do a Google search for “turkey frying accidents” and you’ll see a cavalcade of greasy infernos, house-scorching fireballs and first-timers setting their carports aflame while their neighbors…

…one in the Elmwood Business District in Jefferson Parish and the newest in Baton Rouge — all operate under a mother company called TurnChange. The trio was always in search…

…French 75 in the French Quarter. New Orleans remains your best bet when in search of Amari in South Louisiana — perhaps not surprisingly, given the city’s fondness for drink…

When European explorers began to search for a route to the Indies by traveling west, they were looking for spices like nutmeg and cinnamon. When the explorers came to the…

…umami notes, too. But there’s a problem in the search for the platonic ideal of veggie burgers, and that is that, given all this, many recipes for same wind up…

…In 2008, Delgado named its W.I.S.E. Center (Women in Search of Excellence) for Irma Thomas. She showed the same resilience in the pursuit of education as she did in her…

…to substitute it for lemon or lime. Others in search of local ingredients include Ryan Iriarte, head barman at High Hat Cafe on Freret Street. He too keeps an eye…

…that we are in a warm-weather mode, with longer days and time for summer outings, you might consider going in search of this delicacy by embarking on a pistolette (stuffed…

My Rouses Everyday, July/August 2016 Bill Goldring is on a quest. “I’m in search of the Holy Grail,” he says, with a mischievous grin. But unlike the stuff of Arthurian…

…will come unnervingly close to man in search of food of some sort. The other oddity is the creatures’ built-in survival mechanism that keeps gender numbers equal. Alligator egg incubation…

…focused on innovation for not just the now, but also for the medium and long term. The environment for innovation in family businesses improves when more generations of the family…

…(where the grapes were processed) or sometimes its vineyard (where the grapes were grown). If you are looking at the label of an estate wine, that term means a single…

…drinks as cocktails, but back in 1806, when the term was first defined in print, a cocktail meant a specific, and rather minor, category of alcoholic beverage, one composed of…

…to be interactive and, if they’ve had been around long enough, filled with the kind of notes, doodles and adjustments known as “marginalia,” a term used by former United States…

…curing process originated. (The Italian word “comune,” though a form of the English word “commune,” is an administrative term for a township and not what Americans typically think of as…

…term was likely invented, their diets supplemented by generous servings of cracked corn once a day. It was always a plump hen, never a rooster, that my mother cooked. No…

Research “spatchcock,” and you will find more information on the origin of the word than actual directions for this cooking method, which has been described as a “Thanksgiving game-changer.” According…

…Irish dry stouts and oatmeal stouts to American stouts and Russian imperial stouts. Although, historically, the term “stouts” has referred to stronger porters, nowadays stouts can be low-alcohol, mild and…

…relevance, too much history, too much proximity, too many great games and legendary names for us to quit the Iron Bowl rivalry now. We’re fans after all, a term that…

…people avoid carbs because they think it makes them fat, research has suggested that a higher intake of whole grains has been associated with reduced weight gain. Cutting carbs may…

…why you, 2017 — I’m going to be blunt here, and use the technical term — sucked. And I’m just going to say to you, 2018: Please be more civil,…

…ounce fresh-squeezed citrus juice 1 ounce sweetener (simple syrup or half/half syrup and liqueur) When Hannah explains how to “build a cocktail,” he’ll sometimes use the term “short sour” rather…

…branding before the term existed as something an individual could (or would even want to) do. There was his signature look, his Cajun identity (“Cajun makes you happy,” he told…

…common saying: “What grows together, goes together.” It’s an adage that chefs and wine lovers alike adhere to; it refers to a region’s terroir, a term used to describe the…

…into meal for boiling into porridge and baking in the winter. The term “grist,” meaning grain for milling, became “grits.” What’s the difference between cornmeal and grits? Cornmeal is ground…

…warm, unpretentious, endearing, she possessed an irresistibly agile, curious mind; she embodied the term “lifelong learner.” She seemed to me eager to meet others as colleagues. While not unaware that…

…It was a dish reflective of rarified air in the truest sense of the term; a soup so fine that its primary ingredient, green sea turtle, had to be shipped…

…that get stuck to the bottom of the pot when you cook — and add it to the soup stockpot. Bouquet garni is the French term for the small bunch…