I didn’t cook much when I lived in Sweden. I was 18 when I moved here, and that was basically when I started my own home. We planted our lemon tree five years ago. I grew up on a farm so I love plants. I didn’t know this before I moved here; I love being [...]
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The Gravy: In the Kitchen with Big Chief Monk Boudreaux
November 1, 2010 – 12:29 am
“When I was a kid, I did never go outside. Always stayed inside, and my grandmother used to cook. I helped her cut up the seasoning. Then when my grandmother died, I liked to stay home and watch my mom cook. I just wasn’t interested in being outside. I don’t go nowhere now, you know, [...]
The Gravy: In the Kitchen with Susan Cowsill
October 1, 2010 – 12:14 am
“My mom and dad both came from Cranston, Rhode Island, outside of Providence. Lots of Italian, Portuguese and Irish Catholic, which is what we are. The meat loafs and the stews and the roasts, that’s all Irish. Anything you can put a potato in. The roast was always smaller than all the potatoes. My mom [...]
The Gravy: In the Kitchen with Captain Charles
September 1, 2010 – 12:18 am
“We’ve been open now three months. I purchased this building in ‘07, and didn’t have a plan what I was going to do with it then. Found out my youngest daughter (Javonda) can cook, ‘Let’s try and open a little restaurant and see what it’ll do.’ In the ‘80s, I had a po-boy shop. Captain [...]
The Gravy: In the Kitchen with David Doucet
August 1, 2010 – 12:55 am
“We had a disagreement. We had a difference of views because when I was a kid, my grandmother used to make a dish she called crab stew, but it wasn’t written down. I have no idea how you make that. And in Lafayette, there was this [cookbook] that came out, called Talk About Good. One [...]
The Gravy: In the Kitchen with Charmaine Neville
July 1, 2010 – 12:15 am
“You know, we have a law in Louisiana. If you live here and you can’t cook, we make you move. That’s just written law. The way I learned how to cook was from everybody. I learned things from the Jewish lady around the corner, the Irish lady down the street, the Italian lady in the [...]
The Gravy: In the Kitchen with Gia Prima
May 1, 2010 – 12:33 am
“First of all, I’m Italian. I come from a beautiful Napolitano family that settled in the area of Trenton, New Jersey, in a place called Chambersburg. And that’s where all of the Italians seemed to settle when they came to this country. My great, great grandfather, Gennaro Chianese, was the founder of the Italian festival [...]
The Gravy: In the Kitchen with Wanda Rouzan
April 1, 2010 – 1:00 am
When we came back after Katrina, we decided that we needed some social life. The city was so dead. Nine of us, all relatives, decided we’d buy Saints season tickets once the Saints were coming back, and then we started a poker group because we all played poker. My parents played poker. My mom was [...]
The Gravy: In the Kitchen with Debbie Davis
February 1, 2010 – 1:00 am
“I don’t think I ever did learn to cook, honestly. I just made up a bunch of stuff as I went along. It’s something I started doing out of necessity. Either because I was trying to impress somebody, or because I created small people who were hungry and I was obligated to feed them. I [...]
