The 43rd Annual Parks Cracklin Cook-Off fires up tonight at 6 pm. Live music, hot gratons, and the first ever beer drinking contest are some of the attractions to this years cook-off. The Parks ...

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Everyone has their favorite snacks, including Southerners. Here are some delicious bites worth taking a road trip to the ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. RIVER RIDGE, LA (WGNO) – After the bacon.

There is a little bit of everything in store for you at the ninth-annual Cracklin Cook-Off and Car Show. The one-day event is scheduled for April 10 at the Cut Off Youth Center, 205 W. 79th St. The ...

Chicharrón, pork rinds, gratons, cracklins—call them what you like, but fried hog fat with the skin on is a wonderful thing. I recently attended a Louisiana boucherie (what is essentially a communal ...

NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - Beans with ham and sausage have been cooking in the pots in South Louisiana for 300 years. People of all walks of life and in every area, from the bayous to New Orleans, found ...

It’s a food item you see throughout south Louisiana. Locals refer to them as cracklin. They’re fried and seasoned and made from the fatty layer of tissue that rests under a pig’s skin. On April 12, ...

The festival that celebrates the south Louisiana tradition of a boucherie is returning to the site where it all began 40 years ago. After moving away from its original site at 9690 Airline Highway ...