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9th Ward Daily Photo via rl reeves jr

Go on a Slim Harpo kick today and thank me later

The Red Devil restaurant in Budapest Hungary

We live in the best eating city in the U.S but New Orleans is a food desert if you’re trying to hunt down a proper bowl of chili. Continue Reading

9th Ward Daily Photo via rl reeves jr

When you roll through New Orleans keep a weather eye for old smokers like this one. They portend delicious soul food being served nearby.

Adrian Miller aka the Soul Food Scholar is appearing Thursday October 18th at Zeitgeist in Central City, New Orleans. Continue Reading

9th Ward Daily Photo via rl reeves jr

Listen to Allen Toussaint today

2018 Prince of Wales second line in New Orleans

“People go out to the second line to have a good time, that’s what it’s about, you know that special feeling of joy-spontaneous joy of life, that you can only get from a second line”

Joe Stern, Prince of Wales stalwart, speaking on the New Orleans second line tradition in an interview back in 2010. Continue Reading

9th Ward Daily Photo via rl reeves jr

2018 Louisiana Gumbo Festival At Chackbay

We may as well just move to Lafourche Parish. Continue Reading

9th Ward Daily Photo via rl reeves jr

A gumbo princess in New Iberia Louisiana

I sat down to my first bowl of New Orleans gumbo in the halcyon era of the 70s. Since then I’ve come to recognize one incontrovertible fact: New Orleans’ dirty little secret is that there’s a lot of bad gumbo in what is the best eating city in the U.S. Continue Reading

RL Reeves Jr

Texas Writer Documenting Hot Plates, Po Boys, Second Lines and Baby Dolls. 9th Ward. New Orleans

9th Ward Daily Photo: Ti-Ni-Nee-Ni-Nu

Cooking The Soup Of The Devil In New Orleans 9th Ward

9th Ward Daily Photo: Industrial Canal Flood Wall

Soul Food Universal Register: Soul Food Scholar in New Orleans, Mama Kong, The Preservery, Connie B’s Kitchen

9th Ward Daily Photo: On Your Way Down

Field Report: 2018 Prince of Wales Second Line

9th Ward Daily Photo: Love Is Here To Stay

Field Report: 2018 Louisiana Gumbo Festival At Chackbay

9th Ward Daily Photo: This Is Where I Live

Happy National Gumbo Day New Orleans

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