#katrina20

[little-shop-of-nola]

20 years ago in Mississippi, the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.

These are my personal photos from that time. They were taken a few months after landfall.

As a Nola girl, Mississippi will always have a special place in my heart. So many happy memories were made there and will forever live in my mind.

[liberateddev]

August 2025

[liberateddev]

August 2025

[suestrachan504]

Cooking Red Beans, Serving Comfort: Remembering Katrina 20 Years Later

Twenty years ago, on the tragic day of August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina made landfall and caused havoc across Louisiana and Mississippi co

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Katrina 20: Chef Paul Prudhomme’s Comfort Food Became a Lifeline for New Orleans

After Hurricane Katrina, Chef Paul Prudhomme turned his seasoning plant into a lifeline, feeding New Orleans with comforting gumbo, jambalay

I was here for Katrina. I did not lose anything the way a lot of people did and I was able to get back. I tell people, who didn't live through it, that you constantly carry the experience with you, particularly during hurricane season. I had not written anything about the storm, so when Magic Seasoning Blends, LLC and Bent Media asked me to write an article about the late Chef Paul Prudhomme and his team's efforts in feeding and helping people after Katrina, I was on it. I already knew Prudhomme was generous with his time and money to the New Orleans community, and he really stepped up after the storm. I pulled information from old articles and talked to Magic Seasoning CEO and President Marty Cosgrove, former K-Paul's Executive Chef Paul Miller and BBC EVENTS, a Global DMC Partner CEO Bonnie Boyd, CMP, DMCP about their efforts with Chef Paul post-storm. It is a gentle reminder, I hope, of how we pulled together to bring New Orleans back when a lot of the nation had written us off.