RL Reeves Jr

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

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2018 Louisiana Gumbo Festival At Chackbay

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

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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

On The Road With RL Reeves Jr: Hicks Hot Tamales In Clarksdale Mississippi

Highway 61 opens on to vast prairies as you leave Tennessee and head south into Mississippi’s Delta region. I had just spent 44 hours in Memphis and was driving home to New Orleans when I decided to take the long way to navigate through the Hot Tamale Trail of the Magnolia State. more

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This young lady was simultaneously hawking lemonade and showing off her vocal chops on a Mr Microphone-style rig that her parents had put in their driveway.

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Listen to Bunk Johnson today.

The soul food scholar Adrian Miller at work in the kitchen

Back in 2012 when we were still living in Austin we devised a series of pop up restaurant parties to celebrate our favorite foods. We started the series off with barbecue and even managed to wrangle the use of Willie Nelson’s smoker to cook all the meats. Continue Reading

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Listen to Tank and the Bangaz today.

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

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

Field Report: Hicks’ Hot Tamales In Clarksdale Mississippi

9th Ward Daily Photo: Deadly On The Mic

9th Ward Daily Photo: Ory’s Creole Trombone

The Story of New Orleans Creole Cooking At Zeitgeist

9th Ward Daily Photo: Instructions On Being

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