Bite and Booze :

American Craft Beer Week comes to Louisiana!

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On Saturday, May 14, 2011, the Bite and Booze Radio Show presented by Calandro's Supermarket will pay tribute to the upcoming American Craft Beer Week!  ACBW goes from Monday, May 16th to Sunday, May 22nd, 2011.  Joining me on[...]

"Eat St." is Coming to Baton Rouge to Film for the Cooking Channel and Canada's Food Network!

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Eat St. , the popular television program on America's Cooking Channel and Canada's Food Network , will be coming to Baton Rouge this week for three days of filming and production with some of our favorite trucks!  The program travels around[...]

MASTERCHEF Season 2 Premiers June 6th!!

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So why should you or I care?  Well, today FOX announced the contestants from around the country that got invited to Los Angeles and cook for Chef Gordon Ramsay, Restaurateur Joe Bastianich, and Chef Graham Elliot.  Out of[...]

Join Swine Palace and me for an exciting new piece of theatre called HEIST! at the LSU Museum of Art

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Swine Palace?s HEIST! revolves around a fictional theft at the LSU Museum of Art. HEIST! is part delightful party, part live-action cartoon and part amusement park ride. It is a wild over-the-top theatrical caper happening in three[...]

Surf and Turf Poboy at NOLA's Parkway Bakery

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An ode to a great sandwich... and I do love sandwiches! There are classics and then there are, well, true classics.  Some people say the roast beef  and ham poboy with "debris" at  Mother's  is a New Orleans classic.[...]

YTAC's Kiss My Grits Gulf Coast Throwdown

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Last Thursday evening I had the extreme pleasure of judging the YTAC (Young Texans Against Cancer) Kiss My Grits Gulf Coast Throwdown in Houston, TX.  Sara Jackson recruited me to come serve as a judge and represent Louisiana on the grits[...]

Raising Cane's Lemonade Contest for the Kids!

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This is cool... and I'm so happy to be a part of it!  South Louisiana's Lemonade Day , which is coming up on May 7th, is presenting a Lemonade Tasting Contest next Thursday, April 28th.  Kids will have a chance to enter their homemade[...]

LSU Alum and Houston Texans Jarvis Green Foundation presents Southern Louisiana Wine Tasting

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Jarvis Green is a Louisiana native, who is a nine-year defensive lineman for Houston Texans. Jarvis won two Super bowl rings while playing with the New England Patriots. This year Jarvis is planning to celebrate his Annual Wine Tasting Gala on May[...]

Top of the Hops Beer Festival in Lafayette

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As I so eloquently quipped back in 2002 or 2003, "Si, me gusta cerveza."  Roughly translated, this Spanish phrase means "Yes, I like beer."  Those words hold true today.  I know that you, the loyal Bite and Booze readers, are highly[...]

Lafayette's Jolie's Bistro

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Jolie's Bistro in Lafayette reminds me of what the true dining experience should be.  Chef Manny Augello and bartender Luke Tullos like to keep things "fresh, local, and seasonal."  The menu at Jolie's names several Louisiana farms[...]