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Where Y'Eat
1:22 pm
Thu December 10, 2009

Reveling with the Christmas Reveillon

New Orleans, LA – It's increasingly common for cities to host community-wide dining specials to entice visitors and draw locals out to restaurants during seasonal tourism lulls. Typically structured as limited-time prix fixe dinner deals, these promotions are often called Restaurant Week, and both winter and summer editions have cropped up. We have something like this in New Orleans too, though, as usual, things are a bit different here.

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Where Y'Eat
5:44 pm
Thu November 26, 2009

Giving Thanks for an Urban Farm

New Orleans, LA –

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Farmers Market Minute
12:09 pm
Sat November 21, 2009

Farmers Market Minute: Yamboree

11/21/2009 – Close your eyes and imagine your family's Thanksgiving table. I put good money on it that it includes Louisiana sweet potatoes. Dark orange and full of beta-carotene, we call them yams (from the West African word "djambi" meaning "to eat"). However, they're not really yams. Yams are long, tree-like tubers from Latin America with waxy bark-like skins. Needless to say, I doubt we'll stop calling them yams anytime soon. This time of year, they're great, they're everywhere and we're seeing more white sweet potatoes than ever before.

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Where Y'Eat
12:14 am
Thu November 19, 2009

A Bistro's Third Act

Farmers Market Minute
12:04 pm
Fri November 13, 2009

Farmers Market Minute 11-14-09

Credit Sankofa Marketplace
Among the offerings at Sankofa are crafts, clothes, food, jewelry and art.

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