Comments on: Guest Post: Kingcake, NOLA style http://winemedinemecincinnati.com/2009/02/guest-post-kingcake-nola-style/ (in Cincinnati) Mon, 21 May 2012 17:42:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Loki- SocialGumbo http://winemedinemecincinnati.com/2009/02/guest-post-kingcake-nola-style/comment-page-1/#comment-2205 Loki- SocialGumbo Tue, 17 Feb 2009 22:41:51 +0000 http://winemedinemecincinnati.com/?p=789#comment-2205 @Lauren D. You have just describe a scene enacted every year in school rooms throughout the Gulf Coast. Here is an interesting and little known note: Mardi Gras as it is now, with parades and such, started in Mobile. Two Krewes named Strypers and Cowbellions were the first. When members of those Krewes moved to New Orleans they got together with the native creoles (including members of my family) and started the first modern Krewes: Comus, Momus, Proteus and Twelfth Night Revelers. So while I will always love the New Orleans Mardi Gras the best, it did all start in Mobile, Al. @Lauren D.
You have just describe a scene enacted every year in school rooms throughout the Gulf Coast.

Here is an interesting and little known note: Mardi Gras as it is now, with parades and such, started in Mobile. Two Krewes named Strypers and Cowbellions were the first. When members of those Krewes moved to New Orleans they got together with the native creoles (including members of my family) and started the first modern Krewes: Comus, Momus, Proteus and Twelfth Night Revelers.

So while I will always love the New Orleans Mardi Gras the best, it did all start in Mobile, Al.

]]> By: Lauren D. http://winemedinemecincinnati.com/2009/02/guest-post-kingcake-nola-style/comment-page-1/#comment-2203 Lauren D. Tue, 17 Feb 2009 22:26:52 +0000 http://winemedinemecincinnati.com/?p=789#comment-2203 I'm originally from Mobile, AL, another French-American city that celebrates Mardi Gras. As school children, the teacher would bring King Cake into class on the first day of the Mardi Gras season. The child that got the Baby Jesus figurine would be responsible for bringing the cake into class the following week. It was a fun tradition and one that I miss tremendously now that I'm a "Yankee." And to second Charles' comment, the Busken version of King Cake (I've not had the Servati version) is a good imitation but not a duplication of the real thing found in NO or Mobile. I’m originally from Mobile, AL, another French-American city that celebrates Mardi Gras. As school children, the teacher would bring King Cake into class on the first day of the Mardi Gras season. The child that got the Baby Jesus figurine would be responsible for bringing the cake into class the following week. It was a fun tradition and one that I miss tremendously now that I’m a “Yankee.”

And to second Charles’ comment, the Busken version of King Cake (I’ve not had the Servati version) is a good imitation but not a duplication of the real thing found in NO or Mobile.

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]]> By: Charles Barilleaux http://winemedinemecincinnati.com/2009/02/guest-post-kingcake-nola-style/comment-page-1/#comment-2184 Charles Barilleaux Mon, 16 Feb 2009 15:24:50 +0000 http://winemedinemecincinnati.com/?p=789#comment-2184 While Busken and Servati make something called "King Cake," it pales in comparison to what is actually produced in Louisiana. Once a year, my mom sends one up to my office. It is quite the tradition now: people start talking about it after Christmas, and they all e-mail her a thank you on the day it arrives (we started this when getting e-mail was a big deal to her). She sends them from Delicious Donuts in Lake Charles: http://www.deliciouskingcakes.com/ They make a variety of flavors, but the pecan praline is the best. While Busken and Servati make something called “King Cake,” it pales in comparison to what is actually produced in Louisiana.

Once a year, my mom sends one up to my office. It is quite the tradition now: people start talking about it after Christmas, and they all e-mail her a thank you on the day it arrives (we started this when getting e-mail was a big deal to her). She sends them from Delicious Donuts in Lake Charles:

http://www.deliciouskingcakes.com/

They make a variety of flavors, but the pecan praline is the best.

]]> By: Loki- SocialGumbo http://winemedinemecincinnati.com/2009/02/guest-post-kingcake-nola-style/comment-page-1/#comment-2183 Loki- SocialGumbo Mon, 16 Feb 2009 15:03:23 +0000 http://winemedinemecincinnati.com/?p=789#comment-2183 Just to clarify a bit, it was the Katrina website that won the Webby Award, I was just the blogger. I hope that your Ohio audience enjoys this small peek into our pastry culture. It would have been a good bit longer and more coherent if I had not been writing it between parades... Just to clarify a bit, it was the Katrina website that won the Webby Award, I was just the blogger.

I hope that your Ohio audience enjoys this small peek into our pastry culture. It would have been a good bit longer and more coherent if I had not been writing it between parades…

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