EAT LIKE A LOCAL
Try
the Pie
STORY’S GROCERY & DELI, Watson, LA
Fill ‘er up! You can fill your tank with gas and your car (or mouth)
with pie at Story’s Grocery, a family owned Exxon gas station and
convenience store on Highway 16 known for its roast beef po-boys
and apple, cherry, and peach pies.
BUD’S BROILER, New Orleans, LA
Bud’s fried hand pies have a sweet crust and cherry, peach or apple
fruit center. Served with an optional shake of powdered sugar.
STRAWN’S EAT, Shreveport, LA
The walls of this old fashioned diner are covered with colorful
murals, but the pie is the real draw, including a strawberry icebox
pie made with real, fresh strawberries, and topped with real whipped
cream. It’s served with a cup of Community Coffee.
Also try the banana cream and butterscotch.
CAMELLIA GRILL, New Orleans, LA
Go for the chili cheese omelettes, burgers, fries, freezes and pie,
preferably chocolate pecan. Each slice is griddled with butter (on
the same griddle they cook the bacon and burgers) to caramelize
the sugar and topped with ice cream.
NOT JUST PIE, Monroe, LA
They bake more than 20 different types of pie here, but the banana
caramel is the showstopper. A bottom layer of caramel is covered with
fresh, sliced bananas, whipped cream and crushed Heath candy bars.
EMERILS, New Orleans, LA
Wolfgang Puck voted Emeril’s Banana Cream Pie,
“The BestThing
I Ever Ate,”
on the Food Network. Think graham
cracker crust, custard, bananas, caramel sauce and
chocolate sauce.
Bam!
PEACH PARK, Clanton, AL
Fried peach pies, peach ice cream
and barbecue.
THE CROWN
RESTAURANT,
Indianola,
Mississippi
Let the good times roll!
The
main attraction in Indianola
is the B.B. King Museum, but
the Mississippi Mud Pie at the
Crown on Front Avenue is a close
second. It’s the perfect combination of
chocolate custard, vanilla ice cream, and
rich fudge sauce.
Buy
the Pie
Rouses pies take the cake! We bake dozens
of flavors and combinations, from traditional
apple, sweet potato and pumpkin, to fancy
custards, creams and meringues.
— Chaya, Rouses Bakery Director
Tarte-a-La-Bouillie Pie
A sweet dough crust filled with baked milk custard and topped
with a lattice pie crust. This is a Cajun specialty and easily our
most famous pie. I would love to take credit, but the recipe actually
comes from Mrs. Rouse herself.
Bananas Foster Cream Pie
Caramel, bananas and Louisiana pecans in a flaky pie crust.Enough said.
Apple Pie
This is a farm stand pie made with fresh apples that are baked down
into a gooey filling (the natural juices from the apples are what
make it so gooey good).
Other fruit favorites: Cherry and peach.
Pecan Pie
Pecans are only grown in the South, so this pie is about as southern
as you can get. We make ours the old fashioned way with a dark
syrup and Louisiana pecans from New Iberia. We also make a
chocolate pecan pie with real chunks of chocolate baked right in.
Other Rouses classics: Sweet potato and pumpkin.
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