Louisiana's Best
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The Great Outdoors
It’s enough to turn anyone into Ernest Hemingway. Louisiana, with its strange, mysterious and dangerous beauty, offers both rugged adventures for the sportsman and such mystical sights as an enchantress moon rising over the French Quarter that can make one wax poetic. The Bayou State is rife with state parks and outdoor areas that satisfy anyone with a naturalist’s streak. Read More
Your Beatin' Heart
Inside a ramshackle barroom that leaned like it could collapse tonight or stubbornly wait another 20 years, the roof leaked, plaster walls slowly crumbled, and the paint elegantly peeled amid the flicker of candlelight. The run-down décor didn’t stop a large crowd from gathering on a Saturday night. Read More
Life at the End of the Road
The first time that I’m given directions to Pilottown, the secretary dispatching me to the weekly grocery delivery boat says: “First you drive to the end of the world. Then you get on a boat, and you just keep going.”Read More
A Louisiana Life:
Maggie Mae Renfro
Don’t tell Maggie Mae Renfro the times are a-changing –– because, honey, she’s seen it all. Read More
Traveling Gourmet
Complementary Cast
I want foods to taste like themselves, but I also enjoy dishes that are a synthesis of many ingredients, some of which are not readily identifiable. Often it is those supporting elements that round out and enrich the principal ingredient in a dish. Read More
Home
A Visual Symphony
Few homes are more beautiful than a show house all dressed up with perfect landscaping, furnishings fit for the pages of a top national home magazine and just the right accessories. A return visit to a show house, once the hoopla of having hundreds of viewers pay money for a good cause to visit it has subsided, is often a disappointment. Read More
