We’d like to thank everyone that participated in the first cooking competition held by the Big Read NOLA and the Southern Food and Beverage Museum. The winning entries were delicious and quite creative! Here are the winners of each catagory:
Sweet Potato Pie
Wendy Waren and Drue Deshotels (New Orleans) with a delicious sweet potato bread pudding.
Sweet Potato Cake
Gwen Cashio (Destrehan) with a fantastic New Orleans Rum Company sweet potato rum cake.
Youth
Seth Osborne (Gretna) with a very impressive sweet potato flan cake.
Congratulations!
We also had a great event at the Alvar Public Library this past weekend, with the showing of Trickster at the Gate. It was a great performance and it really brought Zora Neale Hurston to life.
Coming up this weekend, we have two discussions of the book being held at the Latter Branch and the Mid-City Branch of the New Orleans Public Library. Both will be from 12:30 to 1:30, Friday at the Latter Branch and Saturday in Mid-City. Chris Smith will be leading the sessions, examining the issues of racial identity, the role of women, the concept of love, and of course, its food. These events are free and open to the public.
