It’s generally baked in a tube pan. It looks like a pound cake, but it’s lighter than air. It’s a bread, not a cake. Yet it’s sweeter and softer than most yeast breads. No one knows for sure if the superb baker who created this bread was actually named Sally Lunn. Some say the name […]
The Mardi Gras season is in full swing in New Orleans this week. With each passing day, the crowds grow larger, the parade routes longer and the floats more elaborate until the festivities culminate on Mardi Gras, Tuesday, March 4. On that day, from dawn until midnight, natives take to the streets dressed in costumes […]
Helen Reporting. Mardi Gras season and the air is filled with the sounds of high school brass bands practicing their numbers, chatter about out-of-town guests, parties, and costumes. Mardi Gras is money-making time for many people in the city. As the largest party in the world, it’s boon times for bartenders, waiters, hotel staff, and […]
This week, New Orleans is enjoying spring-like weather. But a meat pie is a comfort food for the weary even if they haven’t been shoveling snow. For me, just sitting on the couch watching all that snow and ice in Sochi brings on enough fatigue to appreciate the healing effects of pie. For years, I […]
No one knows what swain or maiden fair wrote the first Valentine. Letters filled with sweet verse circulated in England as early as the 1700s. But we owe the huge popularity of these love notes to a new law passed purely for the good of commerce—the penny post. In 1840, England standardized postal rates. Anyone […]
