Fall 2019
About Our Cover
You can’t make an omelette without breaking eggs, as the celebrants of the Abbeville Giant Omelette Festival know well. They use over five thousand eggs each year, in addition to dozens of peppers, pound after pound of crawfish, and a cardiologist’s ransom of butter. Photo by Paul Kieu.
Contents
Notes from a Gumbo Road Trip
Northern Hospitality
Poke Salad
Nutria à l’Orange
Eggstatic Visions
Hitting All the Right Notes
Hog Wild
Suffering Sassafras
Shrimp Drying in Louisiana
Departments
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Articles
View from a Windowless Room
The Angolite provides a journalistic outlet for the incarcerated
Building Coastal Literacy
Younger Louisianans get a scientific grounding in how water shapes our coast
Notes from a Gumbo Road Trip
A traveling writer stirs the pot
Innovative New Interpretations of Centuries-Old Music
The lyrical legacy of Caesar Vincent
Creole Trail Rides
Cattle drivers’ descendants keep their on-the-trail foodways alive
Hydrology at War
Bailey’s Dam at the Red River Rapids
Northern Hospitality
An interview with Chef Hardette Harris, the curator of the Official Meal of North Louisiana
Poke Salad
A survival staple that requires work to survive
Nutria à l’Orange
It takes a bold imagination to look at such critters and see canapés.
SRAC Is Making New FriendsWithYou
Stumble upon the fun in a Rainbow City in Shreveport’s new Common Park
“Too Damn Mean to Cry”
A Harlem Renaissance look at the ruin of a man
Humanities Enhance Medical Education
Creating place and purpose in a new medical school
Eggstatic Visions
The Abbeville Giant Omelette Festival
Heart of Glass
Scottish designer Geoffrey Mann captures the musical rhythms of New Orleans
Enigmatic Stream
Photographer Richard Sexton captures the complexities of the Mississippi’s industrial corridor
Desperately Seeking Boudin
A hymn to the cherished sausage
Magazine
Hitting All the Right Notes
The Wideman International Piano Competition is music to the ears
Backhowsa
The difficulty of finding the outhouse in Sicily
Stuck in Their Craw
An iconic Louisiana species takes Berlin
Magazine
Melrose Plantation
A rare example of an Afro Creole-owned plantation
Emma Wakefield-Paillet, MD
The first African American woman in Louisiana to earn a medical degree and practice medicine
Magazine
Hog Wild
A secret festival is the highlight of the Madison Parish social calendar—for those in the know
Poetry by Martha Serpas
Chosen by outgoing Poet Laureate Jack Bedell
Five (or More) Things We Could Do at the Norton That You Couldn’t Do at Home
A catalog of wonders in Shreveport
Fall 2019
Suffering Sassafras
Insensitive harvesting threatens an iconic Louisiana ingredient
September Competition
Magazine
Shrimp Drying in Louisiana
A tale of industrial and political revolutions
