664. Part 1 of our interview with Zella Palmer about the influence of African cooking on creole cuisine. The Story of New Orleans Creole Cooking: The Black Hand in the Pot. She is also the author of Recipes and Remembrances of Fair Dillard, 1869-2019. Zella, educator, food historian, author, and filmmaker, serves as the Chair and Director of the Dillard University Ray Charles Program in African-American Material Culture. Palmer is committed to preserving the legacy of African-American, Native American, and Latino culinary history in New Orleans and the South.

Palmer curated The Story of New Orleans Creole Cooking: The Black Hand in the Pot academic conference and documentary, the Nellie Murray Feast, and the Dr. Rudy Joseph Lombard: Black Hand in the Pot Lecture Series.

The oldest play about Louisiana, author James Workman wrote it

as a celebration of the Louisiana Purchase. Now it is back in

print for the first time in 222 years. Order your copy today!

City that Lives Outdoors," by W. S. Harwood. For at

least nine months in the twelve, the people of this rare old

town live out of doors nearly all the waking hours of the

twenty-four. For the remaining three months of the year,

December, January, and February, they delude themselves into

the notion that they are having a winter, when they gather

around a winter-time hearth and listen to imaginary

wind-roarings in the chimney, and see through the panes

fictitious and spectral snow-storms, and dream that they are

housed so snug and warm. But when the day comes the sun is

shining and there is no trace of white on the ground, and the

grass is green and there are industrious buds breaking out of

cover, and the earth is sleeping very lightly. Open-eyed, the

youngsters sit by these December firesides and listen to their

elders tell of the snow-storms in the long ago that came so

very, very deep, when snowballs were flying in the streets,

and the earth was white, and the 'banquettes,' or sidewalks,

were ankle-deep in slush.

Orleans Saints win their very first Super Bowl and finish the

year at 14-3.

February 6, 1944, Wilson Turbinton (known as Tee and Willie

Tee) arranged, co-wrote and led the band on the Wild

Magnolias' self-titled 1974 debut album. The popularity of

that recording, and the subsequent They Call Us Wild

introduced the Mardi Gras Indians' street-beat funk to the

world. 

Downtown Eunice

Eunice, LA 70535

February 14, 2026

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Email: [email protected]

Phone: (337) 457-7389

The Courir de Mardi Gras is one of Louisiana's oldest and most

distinctive Mardi Gras traditions, featuring masked riders on

horseback, live Cajun and Zydeco music, and a community gumbo

that brings the whole town together:

through the countryside, a hallmark of the old Cajun Mardi

Gras.

Cajun and Zydeco bands.

are used to prepare a communal gumbo served in the evening.

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