Back in September of this year I spent a wonderful evening with friends from my undergraduate days at LSU. Some of us hadn’t seen each other in many years, but the old affection was still there. Friendship is a tricky business. Try too hard and you smother it. Neglect it and it fades away. But sometimes you… Read More Friends and Foodways: A Rho-union
My friend, LSU classmate and sorority sister, Monica Joseph Butler Johnson, was a woman in a thousand: exuberant, intelligent and the life of every space she ever stepped into. In south Louisiana, it’s not a party unless there’s some seafood pasta, and I humbly dedicate my Pasta Monica to the girl from St. James, Louisiana who embodied everything… Read More Friends and Foodways: Pasta Monica
A couple of weeks ago, I told my son that LSU’s famous tiger mascot, Mike VI, was dying of cancer. My son was in the middle of doing something, but he stopped short. “What?! But he’s MY Mike. The Mike of my time at LSU.” Yesterday, when I heard the news that Mike VI had… Read More Friends and Foodways – Mike the Tiger
One my first stops on the road for SoulCreole: The Cookbook was Houston, Texas, by invitation of my sorority sister, Tracy, and relatives and friends of hers that have become friends of mine. As we all laughed and talked late into the night, one theme was clear: you can take the woman out of Louisiana,… Read More Friends and Foodways – Houston, by way of South Louisiana
