Scrumptious Chef | I'm Documenting The Food Culture Of Louisiana

9th Ward Daily Photo via rl reeves jr

Martin Luther King Jr

Martin Luther King Jr. was born on this day in 1929. Back in 2013 I wrote an article about his favorite foods: fried chicken, collard greens, black-eyed peas and corn bread.

It’s the most popular article in the history of the site.

9th Ward Daily Photo via rl reeves jr

Depending on how the New Orleans mayoral elections go later this year we may have second lines again in the third week of January 2022.

9th Ward Daily Photo via rl reeves jr

Marie-Antoine Carême

Dynasties have been built. Rebellions have been quelled. Romances kindled. Reputations grown. Kingdoms overthrown.

Fortunes have been made. Continue Reading

9th Ward Daily Photo via rl reeves jr

Jean Montanet Was The Original Dr John

Mac Rebennack and Harold Battiste created the musical character Dr. John based on the life of one Jean Montanet, a 19th century New Orleans vodou practitioner reputed to have been born in Senegal, West Africa. Continue Reading

9th Ward Daily Photo via rl reeves jr

Listening to Wynton Marsalis’ Hot House Flowers on a cold, gray, wet 9th Ward afternoon.

9th Ward Daily Photo via rl reeves jr

RL Reeves Jr

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

9th Ward Daily Photo: I’ve Passed This Way Before

It’s The Birthday Of Martin Luther King Jr.

9th Ward Daily Photo: Anybody Else Missing The Second Lines?

9th Ward Daily Photo: Missio Ludovisiana

The Seductive Tyranny Of Southern Mayonnaise

9th Ward Daily Photo: ‘Ain’t Got No Home’

Jean Montanet Was The Original Dr John

9th Ward Daily Photo: “Hot House Flowers”

9th Ward Daily Photo: Sons of Jazz

9th Ward Daily Photo: Histoire de la Louisiane

Follow Us