Recipe: Joey’s Red Beans & Rice
As Cool As Beans has served over 1,700 hot beans to Lafayette residents. Want to make red beans to share? Here’s his recipe.
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Food
Northside grocery stores have disappeared. Here’s a plan to bring them back.
A local food desert initiative is developing a fund to put grocery stores back on Northside neighborhood blocks.
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Community fridges, gardens sprout in Lafayette’s food deserts
Grocery stores big and small have vacated Lafayette’s urban core. Local organizations are stepping in to fill gaps in the food supply chain and address the central challenge: access at the neighborhood level.
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FEASTival of Delights: How to get loaded — with nachos and fries
FEASTival is almost over. Here’s a sampling of our favorite gluttonous pile-ons.
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FEASTival of Delights: Festival food with international flair
Festival International is a celebration of global sound. FEASTival is a showcase of international tastes. Flavor is everywhere.
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FEASTival of Delights: Bringing back your Festival favorites all month long
For FEASTival, your favorites are back, and they’re offered at local restaurants for an entire month.
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Leap of Faith: Lafayette’s newest immigrant restaurants plant deeper roots during the pandemic
A string of next generation immigrant restaurateurs are defying the pandemic and taking a leap of faith to more established addresses in the Lafayette dining scene.
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Seeking refuge and renewal, venerable Lake Charles restaurants set up shop in Lafayette
Either divine guidance or cosmic providence sent Luna Bar & Grill and Mama Reta’s to set up shop in Lafayette after one natural disaster and in the middle of another.
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Lafayette’s food economy turns to hustles old and new to stay afloat during the pandemic
Coronavirus has caused a major gap in the food economy that some local farmers and restaurateurs are hustling to fill.
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This 29-year-old is building a thriving kale chip enterprise in Acadiana From the horse farm farmers' market to 17 Whole Foods Market locations and counting
Taylor Stokes is expanding her product reach to 10 Whole Foods stores in Houston, with the hopes of eventually distributing her products regionally.
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In Thanksgiving: chicken pies for the soul
As Thanksgiving approaches, my aunts and cousins have lovingly resurrected my grandmother’s recipes as best they can, creating a meal that represents gratitude and honors her legacy.
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The secret’s out on Maison Madeleine’s Secret Supper Series
Maison Madeleine’s Secret Supper Series offers the chance to soak in the beauty of Lake Martin and the tastes of top Southern culinary talent.
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