• Accompaniments,  Cheese,  Food

    The Way the (Cheese) Cracker Crumbles

    In Louisiana, not only do they have great food and music, they also have their own language. A part of their lexicon is a fantastic word – Lagniappe. It means a little something extra (pronounced LAN-yap). This could be an extra few slices of meat at the deli, a free dessert at the restaurant or a chocolate treat on the pillow at your hotel. Mark Twain called it “a word worth traveling to New Orleans to get”. He wrote in his chapter about New Orleans in his Life on the Mississippi – “When you are invited to drink, and this does occur now and then in New Orleans — and…