By Lauren Kellum | Desserts, Easter, Fruit, Ham, Local, Local and Specialty, Meats, Pork, Poultry, Produce, Salads, Vegetables, What Chefs Want Spring hasn’t sprung yet, but hopefully it will SOON, and with it comes the joyful celebration of Easter! It’s that egg-stra special time ...
Okra (n.) An annual plant (Abelmoschus, / Hibiscus, esculentus), whose green pods, abounding in nutritious mucilage, are much used for soups, stews, or pickles; gumbo. -ol () A suffix denoting that the substance in the name of which it appears belongs to the series of alcohols or hydr...
If getting gumbo at a Vietnamese restaurant sounds even weirder than getting pad Thai at a Vietnamese restaurant, consider that many Vietnamese immigrants settled along the Gulf Coast in Texas, Louisiana, and Mississippi, and there is a wonderful culinary fusion cuisine called Viet-Cajun. (...
Deciding to adopt a plant forward way of eating lets you drop the all-or-nothing mindset to embrace flexibility. It means eating mostly plants on most days and not batting an eye when your family serves up a traditional meal that includes meat. I’m thinking about a classic gumbo, collard...
But a small local bakery might actually have to close its doors in the same situation, just because it does not have enough financial wiggle room. Also, when you spend money at a restaurant owned by a corporation, some of that money goes to corporate, whereas if you spend at a locally ...