Despite the title — "Chasing the Gator: Isaac Toups and the New Cajun Cooking" — there are no alligator entries in the New Orleans chef's new cookbook unless you count the photo of Toups' back and the ...

It turns out a pinch of pepper means something very different to Isaac Toups than it does to much of the conventional cooking world. The Acadiana-raised, New Orleans-based chef knows this now because ...

A cast iron dish of super crispy, golden brown pork cracklings, surrounded by sliced limes. - rafaelgraminho/Shutterstock We may receive a commission on purchases ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. For the uninitiated, cracklings (or "cracklins'") are essentially the same as pork rinds and chicharrones — fried pork skin. But cracklings ...