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How Do You Red Bean, Paul Sanchez?
If you were into the rock and roll scene of the 1990’s you have probably heard of the band, Cowboy Mouth. They had the catchy hit song, “Jenny Says” that played over and over on the radio all across...
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Red Bean Essentials: Seasoning Red Beans
Louisiana-style red kidney beans are typically cooked down in water or chicken or vegetable broth with sautéed onions, bell pepper, and celery (also known as “the Holy Trinity”) and garlic. The...
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How Do You Red Bean, Lolis Eric Elie?
New Orleans is a place for storytellers. Ask anyone there, or even one outside of the city who simply loves it, and they’ll have some anecdote for you about the Crescent City. The story can be about...
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How Do You Red Bean, Genet Hogan?
Genet Hogan was raised on a roux. The native New Orleanian now lives in Northern Georgia with her husband and three children. However, she is keeping that New Orleans heritage alive by passing on the...
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How Do You Red Bean, Cam Boudreaux of Killer Po’boys?
In 2012, Cam Boudreaux and April Bellow reinvented the po’boy with their restaurant, Killer Po’boys. The two native New Orleanians took internationally inspired flavors, combined them with local...
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How Do You Red Bean, Anthony Scanio?
Anthony Scanio started out wanting to be an English teacher. But his love of New Orleans culture and cuisine guided him in a different direction. He enrolled in a college culinary arts program and...
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How Do You Red Bean, Panderina Soumas?
With Panderina Soumas, it’s all about her heritage. In fact, in her company’s tag line for Soumas Heritage Creole Creations, she points out that, “It’s ALL in the history.” It’s been a quest for her...
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How Do You Red Bean, Robert Medina?
Cooking has always been a part of Robert Medina’s life. Like most kids in the Crescent City, he grew up around some great cooks. He wanted to be in the kitchen helping out as the meals were being...
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How Do You Red Bean, Susan Ford?
In late 2011, Susan Ford had a big choice to make – either move back to the West Coast or launch a magazine in New Orleans. Luckily she chose to stay in the Crescent City. She used her 20 years of...
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Barry Begault’s Slow Cooker Red Beans Family Recipe
Native New Orleanian Shares his 70 Year Old Family Recipe with a Modern Twist This recipe has been our family favorite for over 70 years. My mom would make these red beans every Monday, just like most...
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Jazz Fest’s “Red Bean Queen” Judy Burks Is Still Cooking — 42 Years Later
The New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival is full of tough acts to follow. And when it comes to the red beans and rice served at Jazz Fest, legendary restaurateur Buster Holmes was perhaps the...
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Making Red Beans and Rice is a Beloved Ritual
A beloved ritual and tradition. Making red beans and rice is a beloved ritual and tradition in New Orleans, and for many, prepping the beans and vegetables and gently coaxing that pot of goodness into...
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Brew Dat!
40 Arpent Brewing Company Releases Seasonal Red Bean Ale. Red beans and rice — a perfect match. Red beans and rice washed down with a cold beer — an even more satisfying pairing. But how about red...
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All About Andouille
A Properly Made South Louisiana Andouille Might Become a Culinary Addiction For fans of one-pot Louisiana cooking, a stick of Louisiana andouille (ahn DOO wee) is a beautifully savory sight to behold....
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The 40 Arpent Brewing Company
Louisiana overflows with exotic taste experiences rooted in distinct, specific locales, unreproducible anywhere else. Think crawfish from the Atchafalaya Basin’s Belle River. Hansen’s Sno-Bliz in New...
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Vegetarian Red Beans
Home cooks experimenting with the “Meatless Monday” trend are often attracted to the New Orleans red beans tradition as a way of building 24-hour stretches of vegetarianism into an otherwise...
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Radosta’s Red Beans Rocking Old Metry
Corner store? Check. Run by Sicilian-Americans? Check. Selling roast-beef po-boys dripping with brown gravy and a heaping helping of character? Check. With a list like that, you might think you’ve...
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Galatoire’s and Its Secret Suppers
“An army marches on its stomach,” Napoleon Bonaparte once declared. And so does the army of service professionals who maintain one of New Orleans’ — and America’s — most treasured culinary...
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Mid City Pizza: Serving Up Red Beans and Rice by the Slice
With its centuries-old culinary traditions steeped in Creole and Cajun culture and beloved far and wide, New Orleans was long notorious in its reputation as a mediocre pizza town — as least compared...
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Hambone Red Beans
From Sunday Celebration to Monday Meal Once upon a time — not so every long ago, actually — families feasted on Sundays and whole hams were a weekly thing. After morning church services, tradition...
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