Featured photo: Gabriel Balderas will open a restaurant this fall in South Shreveport’s Provenance neighborhood. Gabriel Balderas is having a really interesting year. Named to Louisiana Cookin’ magazine’s “Chefs to Watch” list for 2016 (six chefs are featured each September; past groups have included folks like Cory Bahr in 2011 …
Featured Photo: Guests eat during a group meal prepared by Chef Hardette Harris in 2015. Photo: Jim Noetzel. Slow Food North Louisiana, Chef Hardette Harris and a handful of other community partners have announced details of a very different kind of food event. The Shreveport Reconciliation Dinner, a dinner with …
Featured photo: Poppy Tooker interviews Evan McCommon of Mahaffey Farms. “Louisiana Eats! with Poppy Tooker” is a popular radio show and podcast created by New Orleans-based author, chef and food personality Poppy Tooker. The show is broadcast on NPR affiliate networks throughout the South, and can be heard in the …
Two years ago, when Chef Anthony Felan left Shreveport for California, the farm-to-table movement hadn’t really arrived in Shreveport-Bossier. Few restaurants were serving locally sourced ingredients and it remained to be seen whether consumers would demand it. There were a lot of connections that still needed to be made between …
Photography Note: The beautiful images included in this post are courtesy of Jennifer Robison Photography. Thank you, Jennifer! “Farm to table” is soooooo Summer 2014. It’s Fall now, and the hot new thing is actually taking your table to the farm. Slow Food North Louisiana‘s annual fundraiser dinner at Mahaffey Farms, …
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 …
We Grow Together, an organization that describes itself as “a group of community members committed to supporting healthy regional food systems in the Ark-La-Tex,” will host the inaugural Greens on the Red at Highland Community Garden, 520 Herndon St., 2-4 p.m., Sunday, March 16. The event will include opportunities to …
If there’s any accurate barometer by which one could measure Shreveport-Bossier’s increasing interest in celebrating our local food scene, that barometer could well be the number of special dinners and food-centric events currently being promoted by area restaurants and organizations. There are quite a few. From a gaggle of gastronomic …
