The Shreveport Farmers’ Market’s food court has always been an incubator space for local chefs and cooks looking to try new things. Eateries like Ki Mexico, El Cabo Verde, and Ono’s Traditional Hawaiian Cuisine got their start at the market in downtown Shreveport, and each year brings surprising new food vendors. …
Featured photo: Hunter from Smokin’ Bowls Stir Fry prepares an order at Great Raft Brewing. Between some fun new pop-ups, fundraiser events, special dinners and some educational events, Shreveport-Bossier’s food and drink community is staying hella busy as the Summer of ’17 draws to a close. Here, in no particular …
Featured Photo: Sione Maumalanga (far right) and members of the Ono’s Traditional Hawaiian Cuisine team are preparing for the June 4 launch of their food truck at the Shreveport Farmers’ Market. It boggles the mind that there’s not a restaurant serving Hawaiian cuisine on every other corner in every major …
Featured photo: Filipino sisig prepared by Linda Garagan Patton. The 2016 season of Shreveport Farmers’ Market is right around the corner (check their excellent new website for dates and info), and organizers have published a complete list of vendors expected to take part in the Summer 2016 market. For food lovers, …
Featured Photo: Fried plantains sit atop a bowl of peppered chicken gizzards served by the Pacemakers, an African food vendor at the Shreveport Farmers’ Market. One of the joys of the Fall edition of the Shreveport Farmers’ Market is the unpredictable variety of vendors who show up, seemingly out of …
Located just east of Haughton along Highway 80 in Bossier Parish, Mahaffey Farms is a family farm that dates back to 1927, when the land was originally purchased for farming by H.H. Mahaffey (more on the fascinating history of the farm here). Today, Mahaffey Farms is a cornerstone of the …
Gabriel Balderas is the intensely focused young cook behind El Cabo Verde, a new pop-up restaurant and caterer serving organic, locally sourced Mexican cuisine at farmers’ markets and events in Shreveport-Bossier. El Cabo Verde (“Cabo” refers Caddo and Bossier, “Verde” is Spanish for “green”) debuted at the Benton Farmers’ Market …
Photo Note: A shopper browses at the Shreveport Farmers’ Market in 2011. There’s an old saying that “the only thing that is constant is change,” a statement that definitely applies to the Shreveport Farmers’ Market. In recent years, as the market has exploded in size and popularity, Market Manager Noma …
Photo Note: The featured photo associated with this post is of a Vietnamese bahn mi sandwich ($3) from All in the Phamily Vietnamese Food, a vendor at the Shreveport Farmers’ Market. The Shreveport Farmers’ Market returned for its Fall 2014 season on Saturday, Oct. 25. The fall market is held …
Editor’s Note: With just two more Saturdays left to enjoy the Summer 2014 edition of the Shreveport Farmers’ Market, we asked home cook and farmers’ market enthusiast Ashlie Daigle to share her take on the market. The Shreveport Farmer’s Market is a regional Shangri-La for the home chef. For self-proclaimed …
Photo: Chefs Evan and Sarah Rich of The Rich Table in San Francisco. If you live in the Shreveport-Bossier region and love to cook, odds are you’ve already discovered the incredible bounty of the Shreveport Farmers’ Market. One of the largest farmers’ markets in Louisiana, the Shreveport Farmers’ Market will …
Photo: The pavilion that will house part of the Benton Farmers’ Market, photographed during construction in May 2014. Watching the crowds at the Shreveport Farmers’ Market grow over the last few years (opening day 2013 was reportedly attended by something like 11,000 people), I couldn’t help wondering: “What happens next?” …
Every year, I get a little more hooked on the Shreveport Farmers’ Market and, as a result, am a little more saddened when it wraps up for the winter. This coming Saturday, Nov. 17, is the final market for 2012. Of all the things I’ll miss, my near-weekly visits to …
