This 29-year-old is building a thriving kale chip enterprise in AcadianaIf Taylor Stokes has her way, Downtown Lafayette might one day smell like kale chips. “I want to be the kale-chip version of the Evangeline Maid bread company,” says Stokes, owner of Taylormade Eats, the health food startup that’s taken the Lafayette… Jun 05 19June 05, 2019Article at The Current
In Thanksgiving: chicken pies for the soulWhen I think of Thanksgiving dinner, my mouth does not water in anticipation of roast turkey. To me, the holiday’s greatest delicacy will always be chicken pies — crisp, buttery hand pies filled with meat smothered so tender that chewing is purely… Nov 21 18November 21, 2018Article at The Current
Cast Iron Chef: Jolie MeauxIn Her Words • A series spotlighting the diverse perspectives of women who are making notable contributions to our culture. Jolie Meaux collapses in an adirondack chair on her Freetown front porch with two sweaty glasses of ice water. It’s 92 degrees… Jun 13 18June 13, 2018Article at The Current
We’ll never let go: our obsession with the last Popeyes buffetA young guy in a Superman T-shirt soars out of Popeyes on the corner of Pinhook and South College roads, flanked by his friends in Ragin’ Cajuns garb — pretty much the crowd you’d expect to see at a fast-food chicken joint at supper time. One of the… Jun 06 18June 06, 2018Article at The Current
How a 50-year-old community cookbook became a mainstay in almost every Cajun kitchenIt was always there. Woven into the fabric of almost every cooking memory, every kitchen, of my Louisiana childhood. There, along with the cast-iron pot, aluminum Magnalites and Chime-O-Matic rice cooker. Its mischievous plastic teeth underbiting the… Aug 14 17August 14, 2017Article at Washington Post
