Foodways
Beignets
Beignets, or pockets of fried dough served with powdered sugar, are an iconic New Orleans treat.
Rien Fertel
Black and Blue
Between the covers with Steve Cannon
Foodways
Bread Pudding
Stale loaves of bread get a sweet rebirth in this popular baked dessert.
Bread Pudding
Recipes for this baked dessert can turn stale bread into a delicious treat.
Brief, Brutish, and Bacchic
Nancy Lemann’s Lives of the Saints
Folklife
Brown Pelican
Declared locally extinct in 1963, the brown pelican population rebounded in the state due to efforts by the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries.
Brown Pelican
An excerpt from Rien Fertel’s latest book from LSU Press
Can You Hear Me, Sergeant Blue?
A hard-boiled detective in an intergalactic world
Folklife
Carnival Throws
The culture and history of Mardi Gras throws, especially ubiquitous plastic beads, reflect relationships Louisianans have with each other and the spaces they inhabit.
Confessionals, Baseball, and Forever-Spreading Suburbs
Andre Dubus's Lafayette stories
Literature
Cookbooks
Beginning in the mid-nineteenth century, several Louisiana cookbooks collected the diverse cooking styles of Creole New Orleanians. Crescent City cookbooks continued to represent Louisiana throughout the next century.
Diet Gospel
H. Leighton Steward’s Sugar Busters!
