The legendary Patti LaBelle is many things: mom, author, singer and now you can add one more title to her name—queen of soul food cuisine. LaBelle took to the Essence Eats stage at the 25th annual ...

ESSENCE Festival of Culture is back, and this year, we’re celebrating with good food, great wine and cocktails, and even better conversations. The Food & Wine activation, taking place from July 5-7 at ...

New Orleans is one of the country’s most food-centric cities, that’s why a panel featuring social media’s preeminent food critic Keith Lee, 28, made perfect sense. The former MMA fighter loves New ...

The Food and Wine space was much bigger than what had been created for the 2023 ESSENCE Festival of Culture. In place of last year’s small stage in a corner was an elevated stage, a room to hold guest ...

New Orleans is known for a few things, but somewhere at the top of the list is its food. Local cuisine is one of the most cited reasons for New Orleans’ booming tourism trade, and it has some of the ...

When you come to New Orleans, you come with the mindset that you’re going to eat a lot and you’re going to eat very, very well. If you are coming to the Big Easy to check out the ESSENCE Festival of ...