There is a direct correlation between a Southern town’s size and the number of cheap Mexican restaurants within its city limits. I know this could probably be said about all restaurants or, for that matter, other service industry establishments. But Mexican restaurants are different. In the case of, say, a French restaurant, you want a […]

When I was driving around New Orleans on Mardi Gras night, searching desperately for an open grocery store that sold raw oysters, I could have been compared to a movie superhero. Not even a superhero, though. Just calling me the hero of a romantic comedy would be sufficient. I was on a rescue mission, striving […]

Most people who have grown up in New Orleans or spent their college and twenty-something years in the area know F&M’s for it’s cheese fries and animal print covered pool table. Normally, its not the kind of place you step foot in before midnight. For the past few months, however, a pop-up restaurant has kept the […]

For the past month, I’ve been working on creating a New Orleans-centric banner for the Everyday Epicurean. I thought this would be easy. Just put some typical NOLA food in front of a great local scene and BAM I have a good banner. It doesn’t work like that. I realized this after an hour-long photo […]

I am from Alabama. I’ve never been able to say I was born in Alabama because I was born during my parents’ three years in NYC. My grandmother tried her hardest to get my pregnant mother back below the Mason-Dixon line before I was born but she lost that battle. I was born during what […]