If you eat at Cajun and Creole restaurants often, you know the feeling: Eyeballing the meat pies on the menu, wondering if you’re gonna get suckered. What you want is a real meat pie, something that appears to be hand-made with a flaky crust and a spicy meat filling. Perhaps …
Panderina Soumas is a chef, an educator and an entrepreneur. Folks who regularly attend festivals and events in Shreveport-Bossier may know Soumas primarily for her line of packaged Creole food products including Red Beans~n~Rice™, Creole `Ya ~`Ya-Yam Salsa™ and Creole Gombo Mix™. Many local food lovers keep a package of her Creole …
PHOTO: The Some Like it Hot Food Truck attracts a crowd at a Texas Avenue Makers Fair event. Photo by Mollie Walton Corbett. The biannual Texas Avenue Makers Fair will return to downtown Shreveport’s historic Texas Avenue, 11 a.m.-10 p.m., Saturday, April 12. This edition of the popular arts and …
Painter Karen La Beau and chef and culinary entrepreneur Panderina Soumas have a lot in common. Both grew up in New Orleans but reside in Shreveport-Bossier, and both are artists who employ the bold colors, flavors and traditions of New Orleans in their work. It makes perfect sense that these …
