Spring 2014

About Our Cover
- My So-called Writing Life by Walter Isaacson
- Creole World: Photographs of New Orleans and the Latin Caribbean Sphere by Richard Sexton
- Memphis Minnie: Queen of the Blues by Roger Hahn
- Grand Coteau by Patrice Melnick; photographs by John Slaughter
- The Cracker Jack: A Hoodoo Drugstore in the “Cradle of Jazz” by Carolyn Morrow Long
- Milliken’s Bend by Linda Barnickel
Departments
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Articles
Spring 2014

The Curious Story of Sagamité
The surprising linguistic and cultural confusion behind corn porridge
Spring 2014

The Cracker Jack: A Hoodoo Drugstore in the "Cradle of Jazz"
The Cracker Jack was apparently operating as a hoodoo drugstore by the 1920s, supplying customers all over the eastern United States
Foodways

Daiquiri State of Mind
Mass-produced frozen daiquiris did not originate on Bourbon Street, but in a country store on the outskirts of Ruston
