As a city known for its festivals and food, it’s no wonder New Orleans has a special gustatory way of celebrating the Christmas holidays. Although modern festivities no longer require celebrants to stay up all night, revelers can still indulge in the nearly 200 year old feast of Réveillon every December, as the Catholic French Creole inhabitants of the city did before them. The first written mentions of Réveillon in France date back to the 19th century, when Catholics enjoyed a doubly festive evening: extended religious worship followed by an…
