If you shop at a New Orleans Sam’s Club pretty much any weekend you’ll see a guy or a girl stirring a giant pot of jambalaya. The girl – wearing yellow plastic fork earrings – is Jambalaya Girl Kristen Preau and the guy is her brother Kevin. When you get home from Sam’s you can…

“Food evangelism” probably doesn’t sound too appealing, but spend a few minutes in the fresh food revival tent with Emery Sonnier and Kimisha Sawyers and you’ll be testifying you’ve seen the light and a holy band of green angels.   Emery is the Associate Director of Market Umbrella, the folks who put on 4 Farmers’…

You might think naming a restaurant after a ditch is maybe sending the wrong message about the standard or even type of food you’d expect to get there. But when the ditch is “Trenasse” – the Cajun French word for a cut-through in the bayou – and the location is the tony Intercontinental Hotel on…

When Barrie Schwarz went home from work as a food runner in a restaurant and tried to figure out what she could do to open a business in between throwing parties at her house, she realized that maybe if she combined all three parts of her life – throwing parties at her house for the…

Scott and Jane Wolfe got married and opened their first grocery store when he was 19 and she was 17. A few grocery stores later Jane and Scott were to discover a factoid about marketing that changed their lives and etched an indelibe icon into the minds of all New Orleanians. Dispensing with every other…