traditions

"The Black Pot Talks Back" is one of the best Cajun cookbooks ever written.

If there's a cake around, Taylor Carney and her family must flip it.

Many Louisiana residents will be hiding or seeking Easter Eggs this weekend. Have you ever wondered how that tradition got started?

Here are some of my favorite methods for boiling crack free Easter eggs. They are surprisingly simple and if you follow the steps they work every time.

Drew's neighbors nervously asked him over for dinner when the Brees family first moved to New Orleans. This turned in to a Monday night tradition that has lasted for years.

If you don't complete the list, did you even Halloween, bro?

When you start looking into the Easter holiday, you can start finding some pretty interesting and strange things.

How long should a Christmas tree stay up? I asked a few friends that question, and the answers varied.

Ready or not, 2018 is here! When it comes to celebrating the new year in South Louisiana, we have definitely have a few quirky ways and traditions. That being said, we don't have anything like what other folks do around the world to celebrate.

This is the 6th year that the Orgill family has shared their wildly popular Christmas dance moves with the world on YouTube.

I have always wondering what got the St. Patrick's Day pinching tradition started. Now, I think I have figured it out.

Witness living history in Grand Coteau, Louisiana. On Thurs., January 30 at 7:00 p.m. The Thensted Center in Grand Coteau will host an evening of oral history and fiction featuring the true stories of Mary Ann Milton and Margaret Thomas. Their oral histories will be recorded and archived at the Archives of Cajun and Creole Folklore at ULL...

When people are brought up in an area with little diversity, sometimes others' traditions seem strange.  It happened to me, as I grew up in a predominately Catholic community; the first time I met a Baptist, I went to Confession!!  The priest laughed it off, and let me know that there was more than just one religion (give me a break! I was 8!!).

Homecoming is not as much about coming home as it is about creating roots. It’s about building relationships to the people who will have known you when you were young.