Laissez les bons temps rouler!
Continuing on a Southern theme, today is Mardi Gras (Fat Tuesday), the final day to let the good times roll before the Lenten season brings all celebrations to a halt for 40 days. (As a child in a small Alabama town, my mother was often denied a birthday party because her April 7 birthday usually fell during Lent.) While everyone thinks New Orleans is the birthplace of Mardi Gras, the first celebrations actually took place in the port city of Mobile, Alabama in 1703. N.O. was a johnny-come-lately to the party in 1853. Mardi Gras means food, lots of delicious food, and if you want to sample some of Mobile’s specialties, check out Bay Tables: A Collection of Recipes from the Junior League of Mobile. Of course, if crayfish dip doesn’t appeal to you, try some of the unusual dishes concocted at the Girl Scouts Tombigbee Council’s Celebrity Chef Cookie Challenge in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. The key ingredient was a box of Girl Scout cookies. Winning recipes included Girls Night Out Lemon Chicken Casserole with Girl Scouts Lemonade Cookies and Peanut Butter and Jelly Pie. Bon appetit!
Just an FYI. Mardi Gras was first celebrated in LOUISIANA in 1699 when the LeMoyne brothers came down the river and founded the territory for France. The Mardi Gras celebrations that we know of today, with krewe organizations and parades, began in Mobile and was brought to New Orleans in the mid-1800s.
Comment by Cherie Claire — February 22, 2007 @ 10:48 am
Cherie,
Touché! I stand corrected. Merci.
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