Keeping your taste buds, eardrums, liver and funny bone tickled since 1994. last updated on Apr 14, 2009 what's new? Hey, where y'at. So ... what is all this, anyway? In short, it's a personal web site that's gotten out way of hand; a huge, labyrinthine and delightfully overgrown compendium of knowledge about New Orleans and Louisiana cuisine and culture, and lots of other fun and fabulous stuff; dedicated to the enjoyment of great food, drink and music, and to the preservation of New Orleans culture. Have fun! Oh, and if you're visiting southern Louisiana, remember these things: 1. You don't need a full 8 hours of sleep a night while there -- there's too much fun to be had to waste it sleeping. 2. In Louisiana ... alcohol, butter, cream and big piles of fried seafood are still good for you. Search this site: Enter your search terms Web www.gumbopages.com Submit search form site map.  (appallingly inaccurate.) tip jar!  everything you find on this site is free. your tips help keepit all going. paypal is the best, but you can also use amazon.com (although they deduct a bigger fee and i get to keep less). or if you're feeling particularly generous, you can buy me something. thanks! writings, photographs &c. by chuck taggart    (email me) dedicated to the preservation of new orleans culture. looka!  my weblog¹, updated (almost) daily. musings on cocktails, food, music, new orleans culture and much more. tons of linky goodness. louisiana stuff:  the heart of the matter. our food, music and culture. the creole & cajun recipe page  (woild-famous! fo' true!) music, culture and food of new orleans.  where to eat great food, where hear great music, where to go, what to see, where to stay, what to read, how ta tawk rite, &c. shop new orleans!  help the city of new orleans and its people by shopping there online, from these links. there's a wealth of unique music, art, food, clothing, jewelry, gifts and much more. you'll also be adding much-needed dollars to the local economy. thanks!! acadiana: les paroisses acadiennes et créoles. southern louisiana's much more than just new orleans. photography  on my flickr account. radio stuff:  non-commercial, of course. lots to listen to. well, except my own radio shows... i'm on hiatus now as a dj/programmer, but might be lookin' for another gig soon. old shows:  "down home" (1998-2008) and "gumbo" (1988-1998). my 20 years in l.a. public radio. the non-commercial radio list. the web's most detailed and comprehensive listing of non-commercial, community and public radio stations in north america and beyond. (well, i claim that it is.) if you're a public or non-commercial radio station manager or webmaster and you're not on here or need updating, email me your station's url. my antique radio collection. modest, but cool. listen!   wwoz, 90.7 fm, new orleans, best radio station in the universe. dan phillips' home of the groove radio, hard to find n.o.-related r&b and funk. reese fuller's gumbo radio (hey, pretty cool show name there, bra). "doctors, professors, kings & queens: the big ol' box of new orleans"  a 4-cd box set celebrating the joy and diversity of the new orleans music scene. produced, compiled and annotated by chuck taggart (hey, that's me!), with liner notes by mary herczog (author of frommer's new orleans) and myself. other musical stuff:  my old uncle tupelo, wilco and son volt pages. (don't miss the world's most exhaustive uncle tupelo fan site, factory belt.) new orleans post-k relief.   please donate to: new orleans musicians hurricane relief fund tipitina's foundation artist relief habitat for humanity, n.o. festival tours international   nancy covey's fabulous company provding music-based tours to the new orleans jazz & heritage festival and midweek cajun country trip (including a private crawfish boil at the home of marc & ann savoy), and much more. she's done other musical tours to britain, spain and russia. more fun than humans should be allowed to have. (we host and maintain her site.) swag   t-shirts, mugs and other stuff that nobody buys, featuring the website logo. (you can buy some if you want. you'll be the only kid on your block ...) books   my online bookshop, via amazon.com, grossly in need of upgrading. i'm workin' on it. who, me?  the native new orleanian behind all this, for the insufferably curious. ¹ - or, "blog," if you must. copyright notice    std disclaimer    unsolicited email policy        In loving memory of Ian Conner -- artist, filmmaker, photographer, cinematographer, teacher, advisor, mentor, friend. 1940 - 1999 search the gumbo pages | contribute to this site visit our host, pair Networks (email me) Mo' later, y'all ... lâche pas la patate, et laissez les bons temps rouler! This site ©1994-2009 by Chuck Taggart. All rights reserved. Unauthorized duplication prohibited. This means that you may not copy my writing onto other web pages or anywhere else without my specific written permission. If you do, it's called "stealing" and "plagiarism". (Quotes of passages of reasonable length, properly attributed, may be considered fair use.) People who steal my stuff and pass it off as their own will be étoufféed and served to Dr. Lecter, with a nice Chianti. (I'm serious. Just don't do it. Thanks.)