Author: Lorin Gaudin

Sizzling!

Music and food have long danced the Cajun waltz in Louisiana, but the courtship between food and music reaches back before Louisiana was even Louisiana. In Twelfth Night, Shakespeare wrote of the intrinsic connection some 400 years ago, as Duke…

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…