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If you are headed to Walt Disney World this summer, you can get your hands on some tasty dishes inspired by Disney’s “Tiana’s Bayou Adventure” attraction. The new Splash Mountain overlay will open on June 28, 2024, and eateries around Walt Disney World will also be celebrating.

Now, we have a look at some of the offerings coming, thanks to the Disney Parks Blog.

Magic Kingdom

Golden Oak Outpost (Available June 28 through September 6)

Hot Honey Chicken with Sweet Potato Fries: Chicken nuggets tossed in hot sauce-honey served with New Orleans olive relish and Cajun-spiced sweet potato fries (New) Shrimp Gumbo with Sweet Potato Fries: Shrimp and Andouille sausage gumbo topped with Cajun-spiced sweet potato fries (New) Tiana’s Famous Beignets: Light, sweet, and fluffy beignets with powdered sugar and drizzled with honey

Pinocchio Village Haus (Available June 28 through September 6; mobile order available)

Peach Cobbler: Cinnamon panna cotta, peach cobbler, brown sugar streusel,...

Alexander Payne’s The Holdovers is set in the last weeks of 1970 and, if attention is paid, you’ll see Da’Vine Joy Randolph pay homage to Isabel Sanford, particularly how the tv legend wore her hair when she played Louise “Weezy” Jefferson in the classic TV comedy The Jeffersons.

“I do this all the time with my characters,” Randolph tells me as she explains how she likes to distract herself from “Da’Vine,” and of how she has sacrificed much of her private life to her professional life.

In her portrait of Mary Lamb, the catering manager at an elite boys school, she felt like she was “walking this emotional, psychological tightrope,” because Mary’s only child has been killed fighting for his country in Vietnam.

It was a case of constant checks and balances because she didn’t want her Mary to be “whiny and cry. Didn’t...

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Disney announced the name, arrival date and more details about its reimagined Splash Mountain ride on Friday during a special Essence Fest panel held at New Orleans’ Preservation Hall.

The revamped attraction, titled Tiana’s Bayou Adventure, will make its debut at Disney World’s Magic Kingdom and Disneyland in late 2024, according to the Disney Parks Blog. The new attraction, which celebrates the characters and real-world Louisiana setting of The Princess and the Frog, is a musical adventure inspired by the 2009 film and first animated Disney feature to star a Black princess.

The experience will pick up where the film left off, with riders joining the movie’s leading characters Princess Tiana, Naveen and the jazz-loving alligator Louis on a bayou adventure that sees the trio hosting a Mardi Gras celebration. Disney promises that the attraction will feature both new and familiar faces to the New Orleans-based universe,...

Leah Chase, who taught the nation about Creole food at her Dooky Chase’s restaurant in New Orleans and was a celebrity chef who appeared in numerous TV shows and film documentaries, has died. She passed Saturday at her son’s home near her New Orleans restaurant.

Chase and her husband, Edgar “Dooky’ Chase, had the first white tablecloth restaurant for black customers in the heavily segregated city. Dooky Chase’s began as a sandwich shop in the Treme district, but expanded into an upscale restaurant that was the equal of anything in the French Quarter.

Along the way, Leah Chase’s expertise in Creole cooking drew national attention. Cookbooks, innumerable media interviews and television shows, and film documentaries cataloged this unique regional cuisine. Princess Tiana, who wanted to own a restaurant in the animated Disney feature The Princess and the Frog, was based on Chase. Tiana was the first...

Recognized as one of the most important female restauranteurs, Ella Brennan’s life story is making its way to the big screen in “Ella Brennan: Commanding the Table.” Directed by Oscar-nominated director Leslie Iwerks, the documentary will have its world premiere at the New Orleans Film Festival on October 14, but before its grand debut, IndieWire has your first look at the doc in the trailer and poster below.

Narrated by Patricia Clarkson, the film is the behind the scenes story of Brennan, one of America’s foremost restaurateurs whose life work has cemented New Orleans as a star on the nation’s culinary map. At the age of 18 she went to work at her brother’s bar on Bourbon Street and soon because the pioneer of the modern American food movement.

Read More: ‘She Started It’ Trailer: Documentary Aims To Bolster Female Entrepreneurship

The documentary also features friends and industry...

Paulette Leaphart has inspired millions of people in her fight against breast cancer, and thanks to Beyoncé, her story has now touched even more. Turning lemons to lemonade, the breast cancer survivor and mother of eight has been on an incredible journey that ended in joy on the set of Beyoncé's Lemonade visual album. While training for her 1,000 mile bare-chested walk for cancer awareness (which begins Saturday), Leaphart learned of a casting for a "top secret" video being made for a "very big star." She took her 8-year-old daughter Madeline to audition, but it was Leaphart who ended up with a part.

Paulette Leaphart has inspired millions of people in her fight against breast cancer, and thanks to Beyoncé, her story has now touched even more. Turning lemons to lemonade, the breast cancer survivor and mother of eight has been on an incredible journey that ended in joy on the set of Beyoncé's Lemonade visual album. While training for her 1,000 mile bare-chested walk for cancer awareness (which begins Saturday), Leaphart learned of a casting for a "top secret" video being made for a "very big star." She took her 8-year-old daughter Madeline to audition, but it was Leaphart who ended up with a part.

First course of the week for our pop culture palates? An early taste of Halloween with the annual Simpsons “Treehouse of Horror” episode. Second is a sampling of season premieres, and the third course is a trip down a John Lithgow rabbit hole. But save room for dessert, which features organic and free-range zombie sweetbreads, courtesy of AMC’s The Walking Dead. Bon Appéteeth!

All times listed are Eastern.

Sunday 10/6

The Simpsons, 8 p.m., Fox

Make sure you pay close attention to the intro, which features some sure-to-delight visual handiwork from director Guillermo del Toro (Pan’s Labyrinth) in the annual Halloween episode.

In late May, Bravo's "Top Chef" arrived in New Orleans to film its 11th season, premiering on Wednesday, Oct. 2, in a city famed for fun, food and fabulous music. Production wrapped in early July.

But sitting as it does on the Gulf Coast in the Deep South of the U.S., the Big Easy is also known for warm weather -- and the "Top Chef" team could hardly have picked a toastier time of year.

Says judge Gail Simmons, a cook and former food journalist,to Zap2it, "It was incredibly hot outside. It was definitely taxing on our chefs that are cooking and on our production crew, shooting long hours and long days in 100-degree, 100 percent humidity weather. Otherwise, that was a small price to pay to get to do it in New Orleans.

"We mixed it up a lot. We're indoors; we're outdoors. We go into the countryside.