Day: February 12, 2020

Strong Towns Podcast on Downtown Shreveport

We don’t mind saying that we are a fan of Strong Towns. I mean, who wouldn’t be a fan of something with that name? But more than the name is the mission, the underlying goal of sharing information that sounds like common sense but for many years has not been the accepted norm, the typical […]

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Fertitta’s Featured in Statewide Press

Fertitta’s Grocery Store and later, deli, has been a part of the downtown Shreveport scene since the early 1920’s. The little store at Fairfield and Howell Streets has been home to several Sicilian-American Shreveport families and to many years of good food. We love that the blog Only In Your State spent a little time […]

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Downtown’s Stop For Boudin Kolache

Up until recently there were two words that did NOT go together: Boudin, as in the spicy south Louisiana sausage, and Kolache, as in the very European pastry filled with fruit or mincemeat. When Czechs brought the treat to the U.S. via Texas, Kolache took a turn from fruit to the baked roll and sausage-sized […]

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