This year is a challenging one for keeping on track, health-wise. Christmas and winter holidays have rolled right into Mardi Gras, which is early this year. That means it’ll be extra difficult to keep up with our fitness routines and…
It isn’t just about reducing sugar in a recipe or using low fat milk instead of cream. It’s about making healthy choices and thinking of making the food as flavorful as possible. How can we make our food surprisingly good…
There’s something about this time of year that invites reflection. The whirlwind of the holidays has passed, and life begins to find its rhythm again. The decorations are packed away, routines start to feel familiar and we get a chance…
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In 2022, Charles Sarver was ready for a change and set his sites on a home with, not only a larger footprint, but also one located in a more desirable neighborhood near Lafayette’s Moncus Park. The one he found had…
Youngsville The locally owned fast-casual Tropical Smoothie Café is making its debut (in the former Zorba’s space on Chemin Metairie Parkway) with a menu of made-to-order smoothies, wraps, bowls, flatbreads, breakfast items and salads. The new Dumpling Hour restaurant (also…
Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, a celebrated French gastronome (“epicure, food-lover”), opens his 1826 book The Physiology of Taste with a series of twenty culinary aphorisms, the most famous of which is: “Tell me what you eat : I will tell you…
Do not thank the treater. Do not pay the treater, though you may leave a gift. Treatments cannot cross a body of water. These are just a few traditional guidelines when requesting traitement (treatment) from a traiteur, or faith healer.…
Richard and Lori Hurst, the husband-and-wife team behind Poor Boy’s Inn Riverside Inn in Broussard, foster a legacy dating back to 1932. When Richard’s grandfather, Hulo “Poor Boy” Landry, developed an allergy to flour from working at the Evangeline Maid…
Like many southwestern Louisiana towns, Rayne got its origins in the western expansion of the railroad; the town was named for Rayne Grey, an engineer for the Southern Pacific Railroad. But it would be frogs that put the agricultural town on…
Lake Charles Chef Dave Evans can’t help himself. He is driven to express himself, and food is an area of his expertise. Evans has grown the Lunaverse — the restaurant, nonprofit organization and culture Evans has developed — with the…
As Lent settles in following the indulgent whirl of Carnival season, Lafayette’s Ember Kitchen + Cocktails has unveiled a new entrant in the city’s fast-rising zero-proof movement. Bar manager, Deanna Scott, leans into that trend with her latest creation, the…
