Southern Cast Iron

Mardi Gras King Cake

hen people ask me why I moved from Los Angeles to New Orleans, I immediately ask if they have ever visited the Crescent City. If you’ve been here, then you don’t have to ask. To walk the streets of New Orleans is to know its magic. Music fills the air of the French Quarter and Frenchman Street. Colorful murals bring a modern vibrance to buildings in the Bywater and Upper 9th Ward. Second lines [brass bands and boisterous followers parading through the streets] surprise you weekly. Every neighborhood is alive and iconically beautiful, and the food is

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