Louisiana Eats

Hosted ByPoppy Tooker

On Louisiana Eats! NOLA food icon Poppy Tooker takes us into Louisiana's wide open fields, deep waters, bustling markets, and busy kitchens. Poppy's people are carrying on the traditions of Louisiana's wholly local but universally celebrated food, from farm to table, and sometimes barroom! Poppy roams the State to find the folks whose inspiration and innovation are taking the abundant wealth of Louisiana's food culture into the future. Let's eat!

Good Eggs: Web-Based Aggregator Expands Its Brick & Mortar Operation – Louisiana Eats – It’s New Orleans

Good Eggs New Orleans is connecting farmers, value added products, and consumers together in a single system. On this week s Louisiana Eats we ll speak with leaders of the organization s local branch to hear how their work helps reduce farm waste and keeps money circulating locally. We ll also turn to Chef Ryan Hughes for cooking tips about bottarga a cured strip of roe sacks used for finishing salads, pastas and pizzas. And to celebrate Chinese New Year we ll speak with Andra Ang, a journalist who spent years in Beijing documenting China s cultural changes as it emerged as a global superpower. Her memoir, To the People, Food is Heaven, chronicles her time abroad and the importance of food in the everyone rituals of its citizens.