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snowballs

  • Imperial Woodpecker Sno-Balls

    Imperial Woodpecker Sno-Balls

    You may recall that on our recent trip to New Orleans, we enjoyed something called a Sno-Ball. We ate this Sno-Ball at a place called Hansen’s Sno-Bliz and though I was wary at first–“isn’t it just ice and syrup?”–I was quickly won over by the texture of that ice and the intense flavor of that…

  • Hansen’s Sno-Bliz & Napoleon House (New Orleans)

    Hansen’s Sno-Bliz & Napoleon House (New Orleans)

    One of the best parts of traveling to a new city is discovering a food item that you didn’t know existed before. Like when I traveled to Barcelona and discovered pa amb tomàquet. Same thing in New Orleans, only it wasn’t bread smeared with tomato that I discovered; in New Orleans, I discovered the snowball.