It's National Praline Day!

[kestrell]

Praline, btw, are also known as Kestrell krack, and the ones from Southern Candymakers in New Orleans are *the best pralines ever*.
Here is their page on the history of the praline
https://southerncandymakers.com/pages/history-of-the-praline

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Why don’t I have a chocolate icon?

[jesse_the_k]

I totally agree with this sentiment.

There’s a newish store In town called Nutkrack which makes exactly two things: candied pecans and candies pecans with chili (of course they call them Firekrack).

I’ve not yet had the pleasure of tasting them — they’re across the street from the official chocolatier of WisCon, Gail Ambrosious, so I always end up ever to her side.

https://nutkrack.com/pages/faq

One thing makes me hesitate: they’re vegan, so no butter. I’m happy to not eat cream (which rubs my belly the wrong way) but no butter seems a bridge too far.

Re: Why don’t I have a chocolate icon?

[kestrell]

I'm conflicted regarding the no butter thing. On the one hand, New Orleans food emphasizes feeding everyone, and it is made with every kind of variatioin to suit everybody's dietary needs (seriously, kosher New Orleans food is a tradional thing).
On the other hand, when Alexx and I were returning tot he airport after our time in New Orleans, we had a cabbie who was *appalled* that we didn't cook much, and he began reciting hist best recipes, which all began with "You take a stick of butter..." Except for the dessert recipe, which began "You take two sticks of butter..."
So now that si the phrase we use to describe all New Orleans food, "You take a stick of butter." I was raised on Italian food, so I thought I knew waht rich food was, but then I went to New Orleans, and it has its own scale.
But the bottom line is, everybody eats when they go to New Orleans (riffing on Cab Calloway's "Everybody Eats When They Come to My House").