Around Louisiana
Around Louisiana-Greater New Orleans
June 2008
LOUISIANA GROWNThe state’s tomatoLast summer, in the produce department of Dorignac’s Food Center, I was assailed by a wonderful fresh scent that was flower-like. Following my nose, I came to the source of the fragrance: a bin heaped with gleaming knobby scarlet-and- green Creole tomatoes from...
Read MoreAround Louisiana-Baton Rouge/Plantation Country
June 2008
Go to St. Joe’sNewly refurbished and snatched from decay, St. Joseph Plantation is another jewel that can be added to the precious necklace of plantations encircling both banks of the Mississippi River between New Orleans and Baton Rouge. Driving either bank of the River Road in Plantation Country...
Read MoreAround Louisiana-Cajun Country
June 2008
FORK IN THE ROAD
Bull RunOnce you’ve reached the simple white Spanish façade of Pamplona Tapas Bar and walked through the pepper-red door, you might find yourself looking instinctively for Ava Gardner, Tyrone Power or Papa Hemingway himself. This eatery could have been plucked from a scene in The...
Read MoreAround Louisiana-Central Louisiana
June 2008
“Alec’s” best kept secretI had a relative who briefly took over my great-grandmother’s home in Avoyelles Parish in the ‘50s and redecorated the old place. She stripped the doors off of ancient solid-mahogany armoires and turned them into bookshelves painted green. She replaced marble-topped...
Read MoreAround Louisiana-Greater New Orleans
April 2008
LOUISIANA GROWNAzaleas
As a child, the appearance of azaleas in the dusky colors of a New Orleans spring always meant that the freedom of summer was just around the corner –– days filled with baseball, swimming, peaches, watermelons, plums, trips to the country and going shoeless. I’d go for walks...
Read MoreAround Louisiana-Baton Rouge/Plantation Country
April 2008
CAUSE TO CELEBRATEA class act
On Jan. 7, 2008, Louisiana State University became the first college football team in the history of the BCS National Championship to victoriously raise the crystal football as national champs twice. Belonging to arguably the strongest football conference in the...
Read MoreAround Louisiana-Cajun Country
April 2008
LOUISIANA GROWNBayou of the snake
It has been geologically, archeologically and paleontologically recorded that once the Mississippi River flowed much farther west than its current course, threading its mighty way through present-day Acadiana. Old Man River began to hear its siren call to drift...
Read MoreAround Louisiana-Central Louisiana
April 2008
PROFILETara!
Tara Bounds, 25, a native of Central Louisiana, was born with Down syndrome and a heart defect that required two open-heart surgeries before she reached the age of 5. Growing up as a cherished child allowed to run free in the sunshine with the proud and unwavering support of her mom,...
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