In 1952, the paper introduced a new weather mascot, Pogo the Possum, and readers demanded the return of the amphibian. In the "The Picayune Creole Cook Book," which originally published in 1901, the ...

Evidence abounds in Louisiana that a mascot can bring people together better than almost anything else. The Picayune Frog started doing just that more than a century ago. Long before Margaret Orr, Rob ...

There is a widely held believe that the way to cook a frog is to place it in pot of cold water and turn the heat up. The frog will remain in the pot. Alternatively, drop the frog into a boiling pot of ...