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!

Changing Course – Louisiana Eats – It’s New Orleans

Change is constant, but that doesn’t make it easy. On this week’s show, we meet some individuals who have transformed their lives or business.

The Avenue Pub had been a family business for nearly 20 years before Polly Watts claimed it for herself. It was the kind of place where patrons bought cheap beer and knocked back shots of Jagermeister, but Polly knew there wasn’t a future down that road, at least not for her. When she reshaped the menu, she ultimately reshaped the bar into one of the Southeast’s best destinations for craft beer.