“This is my dad’s skillet, and the only thing he left me in his will. He was an English professor, so he didn’t have a lot to leave any of us. I guess he felt that I’d been self-sufficient in life. When I toured with White Zombie I was a vegetarian. I became a vegetarian [...]
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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 [...]
