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5:40 Wayne Baquet, Sr.: Our first restaurant was open in the 1940s. It was a place called Paul Gross Chicken Coop. It was called that because they actually served fried chicken. Not too many people did that back then because they didn’t have deep fryers. Actually the person that inspired that was Ada Baquet Gross, Paul Gross’s wife and my great aunt. And it was in Tremé, on the corner of Bienville and Roman. That was our first restaurant. My dad worked there, I even worked there as a teenager. Then my dad went off on his own, opened up Eddie’s Restaurant. Kind of famous: 2119 Law Stree...

Shrimp Creole is a New Orleans classic for a Mardi Gras that's anything but normal Ann Maloney, The Washington Post Feb. 17, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail Recently, a reader chastised me for using FOMO. He wrote: "What does FOMO mean? I hate when writers use abbreviations without first explaining . . .." Well, if it bothered you, too, let's clear this up right now. It means fear of missing out . . . and I've got it bad right now. Feb. 16 was Mardi Gras. For a New Orleans native like me, that usually means a day of costuming, hanging out with family and friends, catching beads at parades, eating ...