food

Celebrate Mardi Gras Wherever You Are

by CajunMama
Mardi Gras 2009

The Mardi Gras carnival season officially kicks off on January 6th each year and lasts until midnight on Fat Tuesday. We celebrate with king cakes, krewe balls, float decoration parties, food, and of course the parades. To kick things off in true Louisiana style, Zatarain’s is ringing the NYSE bell from the French Quarter this [...]

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Gulf Coast Seafood – I’m Eating It (and you should too).

by CajunMama
Oil or no oil, I

Please check out our updates at the end of this post. Seafood makes up a large portion of the cuisine along the Gulf Coast. If you haven’t already heard, we’re supporting Gulf Coast communities by spending recreation time at affected beaches and eating Gulf Coast seafood. Sounds like a tough job, right? Well, there’s been a [...]

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Foodie Friday: Dessert on Carnival Fantasy Cruise

by CajunMama
White Chocolate Dessert on Carnival Fantasy Cruise

We took our first family cruise at the beginning of the summer and it was also my first experience with Carnival Cruise Lines. I’ve enjoyed a romantic cruise with Princess Cruises Crown Princess and a girlfriend getaway cruise on the Norwegian Spirit (the cruise line currently offering Nickelodeon themed cruises). The thing that surprised me most with Carnival [...]

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Cherry Adventure in Traverse City, Michigan

by CajunMama
Cherry mama tree

I don’t know about you, but I love to eat when I travel. Food is such an important aspect of travel. It gives us a sense of place and the culture behind the destination. I’ve said before, that here in Louisiana we don’t eat to live, we live to eat. Our culture is that a [...]

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Louisiana Plantation Tour: Houmas House Plantation and Gardens

by CajunMama
Louisiana Plantation Tour Houmas House

I’ve always dreamed that at some point in my life I’d earn enough to purchase my own plantation. I’ve grown up in an area where these majestic homes have intrigued residents and visitors with the stories of the families who lived and died in these white mansions. Some of the stories are about history while [...]

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Celebrity Getaway at The Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, CA

by CajunMama
The Beverly Hilton is location for manhy red carpet events, including The Golden Globe Awards.

Have you ever wanted to go back in time, to the golden days of old Hollywood, but you didn’t want to sacrifice the luxury of today? This is The Beverly Hilton, an icon that first opened in 1955 and has probably had every celebrity walk through its doors. Today, The Beverly Hilton holds more than 175 [...]

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No Reservations Season 5 Sneak Peek

by CajunMama

In Season 5 of No Reservations, Anthony Bourdain heads to exotic locations like Venice, Azores, Sri Lanka and Vietnam and doesn’t hold back on his blunt observations about people, places, cooking and culture. While his travels take him across the globe, he doesn’t forget about the foodie hot spots in Washington DC, Chicago and New [...]

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Best Chocolate Desserts

by CajunMama

My favorite week of the year is upon us. It is National Chocolate Week and I take my role as a Traveling Mama very seriously. I make sure that each hotel I recommend has been personally visited. I make sure that each product I review has been personally tested out. I even sacrifice myself, in [...]

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Luxury Travel in Saint Tropez

by CajunMama

My gal pal, Denise (a food writer from Boston) had a swanky assignment in Saint Tropez and asked me to go along. Since I hadn’t stepped foot on French soil yet, this would provide the perfect excuse to do so. I booked a flight on Air France, direct from Houston to Paris, and then into [...]

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Anthony Bourdain’s No Reservations

by CajunMama

Yup. I’m the crazy mama. I’m the one that thinks Anthony Bourdain rocks. Here’s a sneak peep at his new season, which airs this week on The Travel Channel. Can’t leave the US? Follow this cool dude along on his culinary adventures.

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