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How to master the fish fillet
Step-by-step instructions for filleting fresh fish, which is a particularly useful culinary skill for those of us fortunate enough to live in southeast Louisiana.
Social media style
With our cover story featuring 25 must-follow Twitter accounts in Baton Rouge, and examining the growing social media site's impact on the local community, we wondered what Twitter might look like in the flesh—living, breathing, fashionable flesh. Prices are approximate, and price and availability are subject to change. (Styling: Erin Mehta)
Bad Guys, Good Eats! Pop-Up Dinner at Restaurant IPO
Chef and 225 contributor Jay D. Ducote and Chef Chris Wadsworth hosted the Bad Guys, Good Eats! dinner at Restaurant IPO Wednesday night. The dinner was themed around famous movie villains, pairing cocktails and ales with plates of food resembling famous baddies like The Joker, Lord Voldemort, Hannibal Lector, and many others. The highlights of the night were the three middle courses—a black bean soup laced with blood sausage to signify Lord Voldemort, a brace of coneys on black eyed peas resembling Sauron, and lamb medallions atop a fava bean puree to pay homage to the famous favorite of Hannibal Lector.
Summer Crush
Elizabeth Arkley Hammett, a local nursing student and Fur Ball co-coordinator, and her husband Grey Hammett III, who works in commercial real estate, will take you through our summer guide. And they'll look good while doing it, too. Where noted, their clothes and accessories are available from local retailers.
These are our readers' favorite people, places, dishes and destinations--all of which amount to why we love living in Baton Rouge.
We begin each year in January, when subscribers are invited to nominate their favorites in more than 50 categories. Survey Communications Inc., our market research firm, counts them up and identifies the finalists.
SCI crafts the final survey and administers it in March. Drawing from a pool of tens of thousands of online subscribers, SCI randomly invites some to complete the survey.
SCI's methodology assures that your votes cannot be rigged or stacked. The results you see are a true reflection of what 225 readers say are the year's Best of 225.
Click any of the covers below to see what was voted Best of 225 starting back in 2006 to now.