Bread Pudding
Recipes for this baked dessert can turn stale bread into a delicious treat.
Rien Fertel
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
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!
History
Emma Wilson Emery
Louisiana’s first and longest-serving poet laureate, Emma Wilson Emery wrote poetry about romance, nature, and anti-war sentiments.
Emma Wilson Emery
Louisiana’s first poet laureate was female—and vehemently anti-war
Fatima Shaik's The Mayor of New Orleans
"The novella is a critique of race, art, and politics that stings as much, if not more so, today than it did three decades ago."
Godforsaken, Imbecilic, and Insane
John Dufresne’s Louisiana Power & Light
Grifter's Paradise
Nelson Algren’s "A Walk on the Wild Side" stalked the sordid side of Depression-era New Orleans
