which means more time for you and your friends to make plans to be there! 

New Orleans has, throughout her long history, been the "Queen City" or the capital of the Caribbean.  The movement of people also meant movement of food.  Because of the great love of good food in this city, everyone from every corner of the globe who has something good to eat was welcome at the table. 

This month we return to Jamaica for its spicy and delicious curry goat; a dish that has lots of history and multi-cultures in every bite you take.  The main flavor comes from the male goat seasoned with Indian curry, helped along with the flavor of the scotch bonnet pepper (similar to a habenero). The scotch bonnet is cooked whole in the pot for the fruity pepper flavor. Many cooks in Africa as well as the Caribbean burst open the pepper after it’s cooked to release the juices, seeds and flesh for a dose of spicy heat! Chayote (known in these parts as mirliton) with potatoes, carrots, fresh thyme and garlic round out the dish.

The curry addition comes to the dish from India. Indians were brought to Jamaica after the slave trade was abolished to provide cheap labor, and they made a great contribution to the food.  Curry goat is eaten in 2 ways, with rice and peas, or with Roti; the flat Indian bread, famous in the Caribbean as their version of the Po’Boy, stuffed with curry goat stew. 

So, come on down to the Upper 9th Market on September 20th, 2008 and get your self a delicious plate of history!

The lunch is available from 12 p.m. to 2 p.m.

FYI: The Market runs on Saturdays, at Holy Angels Parking Lot, 3500 St. Claude Avenue, from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m.

Chef Ashbell’s Caribbean Menu:

• Louisiana Raised Jamaican Style Curry Goat
• Jamaican Rice & Peas
• Festival Bread (Fried Bread that’s close to a hush puppy but better!)
• Roasted Creole Tomato Salad
• Corn Meal Cake with Smothered Peaches

In August, Chef Ashbell, the market award-winning international chef, is fixing up a great looking feast:

• Creole Tomato & Green Onion Salad

• West African Chicken Yassa: Chicken marinated in Myer Lemons, chilies, garlic, and cilantro, then grilled & served with grilled sweet onions.

• African Okra, Onion and Eggplant Sautee

• Fig Upside-Down Cake

Come on down on Saturday, August 2nd, 2008 from 12 p.m. to 2 p.m. and enjoy some great cooking before you go shopping!

The next planned "Fridays at the Roch" event is planned for Friday, July 25 from 5:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. The entertainment will feature local jazz quartet "The Black Notes", Chuck Perkins and appearances by Mardi Gras Indians.

  Sunpie Barnes and the Louisiana Sunspots at the Roch

Getting the hang of hula hoops! 

Checking out the artwork is fun! 

All ages are welcome, so bring your friends, your mama an’ dem, visit the vendor booths and grab a bite to eat!
Across the street, the St. Roch Tavern will be open to sell adult beverages if you are so inclined. 

Easter Saturday, March 22, was a big success.  In the morning we had the Easter egg hunt, attended by kids from the local school and in the afternoon the bicycle beauty pageant.  We were happy to give out toys such as hula hoops, bike bells and helmets, street chalk, and bubble machines.  I drove around like mad in the days prior to the events of that Saturday picking up and drooping off eggs, toys, fruit, and anything else we needed.  Big thanks go out to everyone whose involvement was instrumental in bringing Easter events to local Drew Elementary kids: Roy Zuppardo, of Zuppardo’s Supermarket for providing 15 dozen eggs, Reggie Lawson for boiling and dyeing the eggs, Dr. Denese Shervington for her generous donation to allow purchase of the toys, Kina Joshua for organizational help, and of course, the volunteers who helped judge the bike contest and helped hide Easter eggs.  From all of us at the market thanks go out to the patrons, vendors, and volunteers for making Easter Saturday a hit!

–Pavel 

Events include an Easter egg hunt, a bicycle beauty pageant and, of course, the farmer’s market.

Easter Egg Hunt - 10 am

Bicycle Beauty Pageant - 2 pm

• Three age groups with 1st, 2nd, and 3rd prizes
• Judging on Health/Safety & Creativity/Artistic Merit

Farmer’s Market - 1 - 4 pm

Also, check out this link to Natural Easter egg dyes
 

This was, of course, the day of the Endymion Parade and the African Drum Circle was playing all of our favorite Mardi Gras songs.

Saturday, February 23^rd 1-4 pm

 Who: Co-Author’s Dr. Franklin House, Dr. Stuart Seale and Ian Blake Newman of the Lifestyle Center of America in Sulphur, OK unveil their new book “The 30-Day Diabetes Miracle” 

What: Receive free diabetes screenings at the Upper Ninth Ward Farmers Market and learn how diabetes can be stopped and its effects reversed completely naturally at a free diabetes workshop. 

Free Diabetes Screenings

When: Saturday, February 23rd 2008

Where: Upper Ninth Ward Farmers Market

Holy Angels Church 3500 St. Claude Ave., New Orleans, LA

Time:  1-4 pm

Free Diabetes Workshop
When: Sunday, February 24^th, 2008 

Where:  The Greater Covington Center Fuhrmann Theatre

317 North Jefferson Ave., Covington, LA

Time:  2:30 pm
 

RSVP: booktour@lifestylecenter.org or call 888-220-5787

Contacts:

Dan Braun, Director of Marketing
Lifestyle Center of America 
Phone: 580-993-2327 Ext. 3650
Email: dbraun@lifestylecenter.org
 

Jennifer W. Perry, Event Coordinator & Publicist
Phone: 928-284-2287
Email: Jennifer@PTPR.biz

30-day Diabetes Miracle Press Release

Check out the market Saturday, January 19 at 2 pm for the African drum circle.  This week it is a part of the MLK Jr. week of service.  More information on other events can be found here: Hands on New Orleans