Le Marche des Fetes Tres Bon

November 21, 2015 by Charlie London

On Saturday, December 5th from 10am-4pm, visitors enjoyed shopping with over 30 artist vendors for one-of-a-kind handmade art and accessories and Mignon Faget jewelry, they met Papa Noël, enjoyed live music, purchased great books autographed by their favorite New Orleans authors, and munched on tasty local and exotic treats. The creole colonial-style Pitot House was decorated in the traditional style for Christmas and was open for tours.

Click on any of the photos by Charlie London for a larger view.

 

Location of event:
1440 Moss St
New Orleans, LA 70119

Saturday, December 5th
10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m

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video by Charlie London

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Dec 6: Les Marche des Fetes

November 1, 2014 by Charlie London

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1440 Moss Street | New Orleans | 504-482-0312

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Join the fun Saturday, December 6th from 10:00 – 4:00
for Le Marché des Fêtes, a celebration of
the grapefruit harvest and creole holiday traditions.

Shop over 30 vendors for one-of-a-kind, handmade art and accessories, tasty local delicacies, as well as garden bulb varieties from the Pitot House parterre garden. Live entertainment will be provided by John Rankin, the 101 Runners, and Encore Academy Choir. Book-signings by Poppy Tooker and Bonnie Warren. Craft demonstrations on the grounds of the Pitot House and a visit from Papa Noël!

Join your friends at 1440 Moss Street in New Orleans on December 6th! Proceeds from this celebration support the Pitot House and its gardens, and further the work of the Louisiana Landmarks Society.

Learn more at: www.louisianalandmarks.org

Many thanks to sponsors Avis R. Ogilvy and Lyn Tomlinson.

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Parterre Garden Lecture and Tour
by Anna Timmerman, Pitot House Gardener

Saturday, November 22, 10:00—11:30 AM at the Pitot House

lemarchdesfetes1The parterre garden fronting the historic Pitot House has endured many changes, but the essential design can be traced back over 150 years. Gardener Anna Timmerman will provide examples of French parterre gardens from the fifteenth century to the present, as well as formal and contemporary examples here in New Orleans and abroad. A short garden tour and discussion of plans for future additions to the gardens and restoration of the Pitot House parterre will take place following a slide presentation.

The lecture is free for LLS members and $10 for non-members.
Tickets can be purchased at the door.

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To mark the 50th Anniversary of the acquisition and relocation of the Pitot House by Louisiana Landmarks Society, we are proud to announce the publication of The Pitot House: A Landmark on Bayou St. John.

Written by James Wade, with photography by Robert S. Brantley and Jan White Brantley, as well as a foreword by Eugene D. Cizek, this new book captures the history and beauty of the Pitot House. Buy your copy today!

 

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Historic Preservation Excellence

November 30, 2013 by Charlie London

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Louisiana Landmarks Society
Awards for Excellence in Historic Preservation

LLS announces the inaugural Louisiana Landmarks Society Awards for Excellence in Historic Preservation. These awards will honor projects completed in Orleans Parish (outside of the French Quarter) in 2012 or 2013 that represent outstanding examples of restoration or rehabilitation of historic buildings, as well as new construction in a historic district.Nominations for the 2014 Awards may be submitted from individuals, companies, or organizations. Nominations should be submitted via a nomination form on the LLS website starting today. The deadline for nominations is January 15, 2014. Of particular interest are projects which:

  • Demonstrate that historic preservation can be a tool to revitalize older neighborhoods
  • Show that historic preservation is “green” and sustainable
  • Support the cultural and ethnic diversity of the preservation movement
  • Are creative examples of saving a historic building
  • Involve properties that utilized various federal or state tax incentive programs
  • Represent new design that is appropriate to historic neighborhoods

“It is important to recognize the extraordinary investment of time, money, effort, and attention to detail that is required to create projects that stand out in a city known for historic preservation,” said Elliott Perkins, executive director of the Historic District Landmarks Commission.The Selection Committee includes representatives from Louisiana’s State Historic Preservation Office, New Orleans and CBD Historic District Landmarks Commissions, Tulane School of Architecture and the Louisiana Landmarks Society.

“We are excited to be able to continue this important awards program, and to inaugurate it in 2014, marking fifty years since Louisiana Landmarks Society saved the Pitot House,” said Walter Gallas, LLS Executive Director.

The 2014 Louisiana Landmarks Society Awards for Excellence in Historic Preservation winners will be presented at a luncheon on April 9, 2014.

We encourage you to nominate projects you may know, and to spread the word. Questions can be sent to [email protected] or by calling 504.482.0312.

NOMINATE A PROJECT

If you have a project to nominate for the 2014 Awards, please submit your project before January 15, 2014.
NOMINATE A PROJECT

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Le Marche des Fetes

November 25, 2013 by Charlie London

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The Faubourg St. John Neighborhood Association
is a proud sponsor.

 


Le Marché des Fêtes is a unique holiday event benefiting the c. 1799 Creole colonial-style Pitot House on Bayou St. John, home of the Louisiana Landmarks Society. Visitors to the Marché are invited to visit with Papa Noël, shop for one-of-a-kind handmade art and accessories from 28 vendors, view artisan demonstrations, purchase books autographed by their favorite New Orleans authors, and munch on tasty local and exotic treats. There will be activities for children and performances by John Rankin, Mardi Gras Indian Drummers, and the choir of ENCORE Academy. And as always, Louisiana Landmarks Society will be selling a wide variety of Louisiana citrus trees, bagged citrus, Pitot house marmalades and pepper jellies. Visitors will also be able to tour the house, where they will see traditional Creole holiday decorations and learn about Creole holiday celebrations. Admission is free for LLS members and $5 for the general public.

LA VIE DE VILLE: Le Marché des Fêtes is a step back in time

Saturday, December 14, 2013

From The New Orleans Advocate, December 11, 2013

by Robert Grove

Last weekend, the historic Pitot House hosted its fourth annual holiday event along the banks of scenic Bayou St. John. Le Marché des Fêtes, or holiday market, embraced our city’s rich Creole traditions and featured more than two dozen local vendors and artisans to the delight of shoppers seeking unique gifts for family and friends. Even the weather cooperated, with patrons bundling up for a shopping day experience that had the look and feel of a 17th century Creole village.

The day offered something for all. Papa Noël dusted off his vintage costume for the affair, and he was busy attending to important duties with the little ones in attendance.

Music also filled the air with performances by the Encore Academy Choral Group, guitarist John Rankin, a trio from members of 101 Drummers and traditional dance performances by the North Shore Vintage Dancers.

Nourishment options abounded with offerings from Dat Dog, Woody’s Fish Tacos, Eva’s Pralines & Pies and Brocato’s cookies. Bayou Brew Tea and Community Coffee featured warm beverages to complement the local eateries. Perfect on the chilly day!

Inside Pitot House, shoppers discovered a mini-bookstore with a focus on local authors. It proved the perfect place to pick up some wonderful books by some of my favorite New Orleans writers while supporting the beloved Pitot House. Upstairs, guests were invited to tour the residence, which was all dressed up in traditional Creole décor, courtesy of Perfect Presentations. It’s hard to duplicate that view from above on the spacious verandas that overlook Bayou St. John and Le Marché festivities below.

The Pitot House falls under the auspices of the Louisiana Landmarks Society, a nonprofit organization dedicated to preserving history by preserving architecture.

The house and museum was once the home of New Orleans’ second mayor, James Pitot. Today the circa 1799 Creole West Indies colonial-period home serves as living window into our past.

Through regular events such as Le Marché de Fêtes, visitors can connect with the past while enjoying one of the most beautifully preserved historic properties of the area. To learn more about the Pitot House, visit www.louisianalandmarks.org.

La Vie de Ville captures city life New Orleans style every Thursday for The New Orleans Advocate’s Crescent City News section. For coverage of your community event, please email me in advance at [email protected].

 

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Vino on the Bayou March 15th

March 8, 2013 by Charlie London

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Louisiana Landmarks’ Spring series of Vino on the Bayou wine tasting events starts this month! Join the fun on Friday, March 15th from 5:30-7:30 for live music performed by John Rankin, author and radio host Kid Chef Eliana signing her book “Cool Kids Cook”, and a beautiful sunset on Bayou St. John.

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Immaculate Conception chef & cookbook author knows ingredients of success

Written by Beth Donze
Original article at http://clarionherald.info/clarion/index.php/kids/kids-clarion/1509-immaculate-conception-chef-a-cookbook-author-knows-ingredients-of-success

kids_ic_chef_logoFrom the time she began making “Ladybug Pizzatas” – mini pizzas that resemble the colorful insect with the addition of sliced tomatoes and “dots” of black olives – Eliana Casas has been hooked on cooking.

“I’ve been cooking since I was 4 years old,” said Eliana, a seventh grader at Immaculate Conception School in Marrero who grew up in a multi-cultural family of cooks with ties to Cajun Louisiana, the Philippines, Cuba and Honduras.

But cooking is more than just a hobby for the 12-year-old parishioner of St. Martha Church in Harvey. Eliana, who is known in media circles as “Kid Chef Eliana,” already boasts a resume that includes two cookbooks, hosting a national radio show and several television appearances.

Her motto is: “Cool kids cook and get creative in the kitchen!”

“I love being from New Orleans. There is so much food inspiration here!” said Eliana, whose family regularly shuns kitchen shortcuts to make their own ice cream and pizza dough.

“I just like to be in the kitchen and experiment with different ingredients and try new recipes,” Eliana said. “A lot of kids will just eat chicken nuggets and french fries off the kids’ menu and they won’t try a lot of things, or they’ll judge the food by how it looks – like brussel sprouts,” said the chef, who likes to prepare that vegetable by sautéeing it in garlic butter and topping it with freshly grated Parmesan cheese.

Eliana’s first cookbook, the spiral-bound “Eliana Cooks! Recipes for Creative Kids” (pictured at right), was released in October 2010 and offers 150 recipes for everything from appetizers to desserts. Some are of her own invention, some are from her family, and some were made her own by “adding a twist,” Eliana said.

A second cookbook, “Cool Kids Cook: Louisiana,” will be published by Pelican Publishing in the spring 2013. The hardback cookbook will feature 25 recipes, Eliana said.

“This cookbook has chef notes in it. Each one will tell something about the recipe – where it came from, how it was invented,” she said.

She said her favorite dishes include her shrimp etoufée, prepared with heavy cream, garlic cumin potatoes and the sweet potato casserole she and her grandmother make every Thanksgiving.

“It can be served as a side dish or a dessert,” Eliana notes. “It’s really sweet but it’s really good.”

As she is tweaking recipes, Eliana tries to use as many fresh and local ingredients as possible. For example, she tends to make crab cakes only after her family returns from a day of crabbing and fishing.

“I try to make all my dishes healthy by baking dishes that are normally fried, like fried green tomatoes,” she said, adding that baking is another good technique for young cooks because of the dangers connected with cooking food in hot oil.

“Nachitoches meat pies are normally fried, but I bake them and they’re really good and they have all the same flavors,” said Eliana of the half-moon pies containing ground beef and pork, garlic and the “trinity” of celery, onion and bell pepper.

If her cookbooks weren’t enough, Eliana recently signed with Voice America Kids, part of the Voice America network, to host a weekly radio show called “Cool Kids Cook.” The show, which airs locally on Monday at 6 p.m., is composed of Eliana’s interviews of chefs and other food industry movers and shakers.

“I also have segments where I have secret ingredients and facts about that ingredient, and I give recipes,” said Eliana, who conducts the interviews from her home via Skype, with the help of an online producer, a mixer board, a headset and a condenser microphone.

But Eliana’s most visible media appearance to date took place this month, when she appeared as a competitor on SuperChef Kids, a national cooking competition and webisode series that debuted Sept. 17. At press time, Eliana was not able to divulge the results of the contest to Kids’ Clarion, but did share that she got to cook with chef John Besh in the series produced by the creators of “Iron Chef.”

Her accolades go on. At age 10, Eliana was chosen as one of 13 Latinos profiled in a museum exhibit at New Orleans Southern Food and Beverage Museum, and was featured in “The Parents’ Guide to Raising CEO Kids,” by Dr. Jerry Cook and Sarah L. Cook. Eliana, who was recently named one of the “10 Most Famous Kid Critics and Cooks” in the world by FoxNews and The Daily Meal, also is a featured chef on ZisBoomBah.com, a website for kid foodies.

Her future plans include designing her own line of cookware, chef jackets and aprons, hosting a televised cooking show and creating a line of spice blends.

“If you have a dream, you have to work hard to accomplish it,” Eliana said, adding that everybody should know how to cook something.

“Even if it’s as simple as eggs and bacon,” she said. “We all need to eat.”

Eliana’s website is at www.kidchefeliana.com.

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Friday Fun in the Faubourg

November 9, 2012 by Charlie London

FRIDAY FUN IN THE FAUBOURG

Enjoy glasses of wine as you watch the sunset over Bayou St. John.
It’s Vino on the Bayou at The Pitot House (1440 Moss St.) tonight from 5:30 to 7:30 pm.

Come enjoy the wine tasting event of the Fall season. Enjoy a glass of wine and the live music of the Jesse Morrow Trio while watching the sunset on Bayou St. John.

$5 admission for Louisiana Landmarks Society members and $10 general admission.
No reservations. Tickets sold at gate only. (1440 Moss on beautiful Bayou St. John)

New Orleans native Poppy Tooker will be signing: Mme. Bégué’s Recipes of Old New Orleans Creole Cookery.Wine selections are donated by Cork & Bottle Fine Wines, located in the American Can Company on Orleans Ave.

From bestofneworleans.com…
“Slow food advocate and author Poppy Tooker revives the work of one of New Orleans’ first famous chefs in Mme. Begue’s Recipes of Old New Orleans Creole Cookery (Pelican). The cookbook was first published in 1900 and has been out of print since 1937. Tooker’s new edition sheds light on the legendary Madame Begue and makes her recipes more accessible to contemporary home cooks.

Madame Begue came to New Orleans in 1853 as Elizabeth Kettenring. She opened Dutrey’s coffee shop in 1863 with her first husband Louis Dutreuil, a French Market butcher. When Dutreuil died, she married bartender Hippolyte Begue, and they renamed the French Quarter restaurant Begue’s. The restaurant’s popularity and her fame rose dramatically during the 1884 Cotton Exhibition, which brought an influx of tourists to New Orleans.

“At that time she became the No. 1 tourist attraction in this city,” Tooker says. “[Visitors] could actually see her in her kitchen at her coal-burning stove surrounded by her copper pots.”

Begue’s served an elaborate “second breakfast,” which evolved into New Orleans’ brunch tradition. The menu included classic dishes such as shrimp jambalaya, crawfish bisque and Creole gumbo. In the book, Tooker’s updated recipes appear alongside Begue’s original recipes.

Tooker says Begue’s recipes are “some of the purest records of the original Creole cuisine that put New Orleans on the map.” — BRAD RHINES”

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Friday Free For All, November 9, 6-8pm
Peggy Hymel is joining Swirl Wine Bar & Market this evening for a Latin wine themed evening with wines from Chile, Argentina and Spain! Walter is out this week, but Swirl Wine Bar & Market is working on a guest appearance from one of their favorite chefs…Check out their Facebook page for the lineup, chef and menu!

Swirl Wine Bar & Market | 3143 Ponce de Leon Street | New Orleans | 504.304.0635

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FAUBOURG ST. JOHN

“Where Big Dreams Grow!”

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Nov 11: VINO on the Bayou

November 1, 2011 by Charlie London

photos by Charlie London

Join the Louisiana Landmarks Society
for a unique Vino on the Bayou experience!
Friday, November 11, 2011
5:30 – 7:30 PM


1440 Moss Street | New Orleans, LA |
Next to Cabrini High School

In addition to the live music provided by the Pitot House’s favorite jazz band, TJB, Landmarks has partnered with Pelican Publishing Company to bring you the charismatic duo Peggy Scott Laborde and Tom Fitzmorris signing their new book on New Orleans food history Lost Restaurants of New Orleans: and the recipes that made them famous.

Perfect timing for thinking about gifts for those food and history lovers on your list!

Closing the Vino on the Bayou experience, Elizabeth Pearce, culinary historian at the Hermann-Grima House and Senior Curator for the Southern Food and Beverage Museum from 2004-2008, will intrigue and educate guests using one of New Orleans’ iconic drinks, the Sazerac, with her “History in a Glass” presentation. Pearce will demonstrate how to make the Sazerac, and using the ingredients and the history of its creation, will tell the story of the music, cuisine, and architecture of New Orleans.

Oh yeah, did we mention guests will wet their palate with the Sazerac before leaving?

“While the Hurricane may be New Orleans’ most famous drink,
the Sazerac is full of history and is arguably one of the country’s oldest cocktails.”

Guests will also have the option to purchase a tasty dish of Mr. Mudbug jambalaya.

No reservations. Guests pay at the gate. Memberships available at the gate and online at http://www.louisianalandmarks.org/?q=membership.

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Vino on the Bayou

September 21, 2011 by Charlie London

photo by Charlie London

Join Landmarks and welcome in the Fall Season with wine and music! As usual, our great friends at Cork & Bottle Wines are contributing 4 wines for your tasting enjoyment, and, with support from the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival and Foundation, the Courtyard Kings return to perform traditional gypsy jazz music. It will surely be a wonderful end to the work week! Invite your friends and come to the banks of Bayou St. John to spend an unique afternoon wrapped in culture and history.

photo by Charlie London

Join your neighbors and friends as we sip into the sunset at the Pitot House this Friday, September 23rd at 5:30 p.m.

Admission – $5 for Landmarks members; $10 general admission

All proceeds are donated to the Louisiana Landmarks Society in support of their mission to promote historic preservation through education, advocacy, and operation of the Pitot House.

Pitot House | 1440 Moss Street | New Orleans, LA

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