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Contributors

SARAH BAIRD Sarah Baird is the author of multiple books including New Orleans Cocktails and Flask , which was released in summer 2019. A 2019 Knight Visiting Nieman Fellow at Harvard University, her work has been featured in the New York Times, Washington Post, Saveur, Eater, Food & Wine and The Guardian , among others. Previously, she served as restaurant critic for the New Orleans alt- weekly, Gambit Weekly , where she won Critic of the Year in 2015 for her dining reviews. DAVID W. BROWN David W. Brown is a freelance writer whose work appears in The Atlantic , The New York Times , Scientific American and The New Yorker . His next book, T he Mission: A True Story , is now available for preorder, and will be published by HarperCollins in January 2021. Brown lives in New Orleans. LIZ THORPE Liz Thorpe is a world-class cheese expert. A Yale graduate, she left a “normal” job in 2002 to work the counter at New York’s famed Murray’s Cheese. She is the founder of The People ’ s Cheese , and author of The Book of Cheese: The Essential Guide to Discovering Cheeses You ’ ll Love and The Cheese Chronicles . KEN WELLS Ken grew up on the banks of Bayou Black deep in South Louisiana’s Cajun belt. He got his first newspaper job as a 19-year-old college dropout, covering car wrecks and gator sightings for The Courier , a Houma, Louisiana weekly, while still helping out in his family’s snake-collecting business. Wells' journalism career includes positions as senior writer and features editor for The Wall Street Journal ’s Page One. His latest book, Gumbo Life: Tales from the Roux Bayou , is in stores now.

SMELLS LIKE HOME I like this time of year (grinding season) because of the smell of burning sugarcane when you’re driving down the bayou. That smells like home. When you get to Raceland and smell the sugarcane, you know you’re almost home. And seeing the cane trucks going up and down the road — that looks like home. – Tim Acosta, Director of Advertising & Marketing

FEELS LIKE HOME My parents took my sister and me to Indian Creek Campground in Independence, Louisiana every other weekend. It was our “home away from home,” and many of my favorite memories were made there. The smell of the burning campfire, the taste of my dad’s “kitchen sink” jambalaya and the sound of swamp pop on the radio always feel like home to me. – Kacie Galtier, Designer & Illustrator

SOUNDS LIKE HOME I was named after “Little Liza Jane,” sung by the Wild Tchoupitoulas at the first Festival International de Louisiane in 1987; I’ve missed maybe three Festivals since. To me, Festival sounds like home (the vibrant mix of music from around the world), feels like home (I know I’ll run into everyone I know), and tastes like home (we have a Rouses crawfish-eating tradition at Festival that’s been going strong for 10+ years). – Eliza Schulze, Art Director

NEW BOOK FROM OUR CONTRIBUTOR David W. Brown began contributing to Rouses

Magazine in 2018. He has produced a masterful, genre- defying narrative about modern space exploration, centered on the most ambitious science project ever conceived: NASA’s deep-space mission to Europa — the ocean moon of Jupiter, where the first known alien life in our solar system might swim. In the spirit of John McPhee and Tom Wolfe, The Mission

FEELS LIKE HOME Home for me was coming back from college in New York — as soon as I stepped off the plane into the jetway a blanket of humidity wrapped itself around me, comforting me. Then I’d devour three different kinds of stuffed beignets in the airport while waiting for my ride. – McNally Sislo, Production Manager

follows a motley yet brilliant team of obsessives and eccentrics who are pushing the furthest frontiers of human exploration.

The book comes out January 26, 2021. You can get it at your local independent bookseller or order it from Amazon.​

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