Catholic Food 2016

Goes together like Food & Family

What’s on your family’s holiday table?

By Aprille Hanson, Published: November 21, 2016

Fall and winter provide many opportunities for family, friends and co-workers to gather for holiday meals. For families with connections outside the United States, it is also a time to share their culture through food. Arkansas Catholic interviewed Catholics born outside the United States or who have immediate family members from Italy, Slovakia, Nigeria, Mexico, Poland and Vietnam about their favorite traditions and dishes. Nigerian Moi Moi John and Jennifer Ekeanyanwu, members of Our Lady of Good Counsel More...

Family roots run deep in Las Palmas restaurant

By Dwain Hebda, Published: November 18, 2016

It’s a brisk lunch crowd at Las Palmas, tucked into the corner of a North Little Rock shopping center. Locals from nearby retail establishments, blue-collar workers on a break and retirees chat and laugh over cheese dip and burritos while lively music dances from the speakers in the ceiling. Clad in black, owner Jaime Atilano leans back in his seat and takes in the dining room scene. A member of St. Anne Church in North Little More...

Taste your way around Arkansas

Published: November 18, 2016

Here are some of the diocese’s parish and religious order events that put special emphasis on tasty food and treats through 2017, as listed on the Calendar of Events at dolr.org. 2016 Nov. 19-20: St. Mary Annual Bazaar, Helena. In the parish hall on Saturday, Nov. 19 from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. and Sunday, Nov. 20 from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday events include a bake sale, silver jewelry sale and Christmas market. On Sunday, More...