What’s Your Favorite Louisiana Seafood Dish?

Fried Catfish and Butter Beans with Louisiana Gulf Shrimp at EAT in New Orleans, Louisiana

While landmarks around the globe are turning (RED) to show support for World AIDS Day, here in the US, it’s also Dine America 2010, where restaurants across the nation have committed to serving Gulf seafood. Not everyone will have a chance to dine out tonight or be able to find Gulf seafood in their grocery [...]

Best King Cake in Louisiana

Marguerite

One of things I look forward to each year during Carnival season is the chance to enjoy afternoons of coffee and King Cake. King Cake is a sticky, coffee-cake type of pastry braided into a ring and drissled with with colored icing and sugar. Sometimes it is made with cinnamon and today it is more [...]

Music is the Soul of Disney’s The Princesss and The Frog

Disney

Disney asked me to share with my readers the importance of the music in their new animated feature The Princess and the Frog. As someone who majored in music and always seeks out the melodic aspect of everything I come across, I was happy to oblige their request. I’ve already written about how excited I am [...]

New Orleans Attemps Largest Gathering of Zombies

The 2009 Voodoo Experience is happening this weekend in New Orleans. It is a festival of live music that is diverse as the inhabitants of Louisiana. It seems that years ago, in the UK, the largest gathering of zombies made the Guiness Book of World Records with over 4,000 zombies participating. This weekend, on Halloween, [...]

Top Things I Love About Louisiana

Community Coffee Gift Pack

I really love being from Louisiana. I love to share the stories and the flavors that make my state unique. We love to eat here and we love to live life. There’s always a reason to celebrate and we’ll open our homes up to just about anyone. We may not always be PC, but we definitely [...]

Top New Orleans Event: Tales of the Cocktail

King Room at W New Orleans

Each summer in New Orleans, there’s a cool gathering called Tales of the Cocktail. It is considered the most spirited event of the year, and I have to agree. Many people that live in Louisiana don’t even know about Tales, but mixologists and cocktail writers from all over the world consider this the best event of [...]

Top 10 Family Travel Things to Do in New Orleans

Jackson Square Flickr image by WallyG

Everyone knows how much I love my state, Louisiana. The first place that enters a person’s mind when they hear the state name is New Orleans. Now, we all know there is more to the state than just New Orleans, but NOLA, as she is lovingly dubbed, is a city like no other on this [...]

New Orleans Family Travel Special Package

W Hotels of New Orleans Invites Families to the Big Easy for a Dino-Snore   Includes Tix to Audubon’s Dinosaur Adventure at Audubon Zoo and a Copy of Goodnight NOLA for Tucking-in Tuckered-out Tots   NEW ORLEANS — May 8, 2009 — Dinosaurs have invaded New Orleans!  In celebration of Audubon Nature Institute’s new exhibit, [...]