Carnival, and especially Mardi Gras, are like a last fling, one final chance at debauchery — or at least gluttony and perhaps drunkenness — before the religious austerity and meditation of Lent. Mardi ...

Sometimes food writer Marcelle Bienvenu has a yen for a savory bread pudding, like the wild mushroom one she learned from Emeril Lagasse a few years back. They are a great alternative to baked ...