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Mahalia Jackson’s Creole pot roast recipe

The queen of gospel soul, Mahalia Jackson was born on this day back in 1911. I’m celebrating by making her superb Creole pot roast. Here’s the recipe

9th Ward Daily Photo via rl reeves jr

Bettye Swann Is The Uncrowned Queen Of Louisiana Soul

Bettye Swann is an Irma Thomas-level soul singer who never got her due. She was born in Shreveport on this day back in 1944. I wrote a feature on her back in the spring of this year.

Listen to her once and she’ll be part of your permanent late-nite r&b rotation.

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Wick Fowler

Here in Louisiana we take big black pots and pack them with all manners of gumbos, soups, jambalayas, stews and etouffées. Our neighbors to the west in Texas fill their big cauldrons with steer meat, lard, and hot chile powder as they crank out dozens of variations on the chili form.

It was over a half-century ago today – out in the badlands of Terlingua- that a humorist from Illinois, H. Allen Smith, locked horns with Wick Fowler, a war correspondent from Big Sandy, Texas to determine bragging rights on who makes the best chili on planet earth.

It’s a riveting tale.

On Carroll Shelby, Wick Fowler And The Origins of Terlingua Chili

RL Reeves Jr

Writer Documenting Life In New Orleans 9th Ward. Second Lines, Hotplates, Gumbo, Po Boys, Brass Bands

9th Ward Daily Photo: Lacassine

9th Ward Daily Photo: Ricky Gettridge former Spy Boy of the Yellow Pocahontas

9th Ward Daily Photo: Look Who’s Coming Down The Road

9th Ward Daily Photo: Going To Move To Alabama

Happy Birthday Mahalia Jackson

9th Ward Daily Photo: Big Chief of the Mandingo Warriors, Spirit of Fi-Yi-Yi

Bettye Swann Is The Uncrowned Queen Of Louisiana Soul

9th Ward Daily Photo: Preaching On The Old Campground

9th Ward Daily Photo: Cherry Ball

53 Years Ago Today: The First Terlingua Texas World Championship Chili Cook Off

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