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!

Creole Italian Manale’s Style- – Louisiana Eats – It’s New Orleans

On this week s show, we ll explore the immense influence that Italian foodways had on the development of New Orleans cuisine. We ll time travel through the years of the family operated Uptown gem, Pascal s Manale. This history, which is now immortalized in Poppy s new book, The Pascal s Manale Cookbook, focuses on two Sicilian immigrant families, the Manales and the Radostas, forebearers of today s Defelice clan, who continue the Manale tradition today. Three generations of family share their stories with us. We ll also visit Manale s oyster bar for a once in a lifetime shucking experience with celebrity oyster shucker “Uptown T” Thomas Stewart and speak with Loyola University history professor Justin Nystrom about how Sicilian Americans shaped New Orleans food culture. For more of all things Louisiana Eats, be sure to visit us at PoppyTooker.com.