New Orleans PO-BOY Preservation Festival

Pack your stomach pumps and loosen your belts — it’s po-boy time.

The third annual Po-boy Preservation Festival, founded in honor of the New Orleans culinary staple, returns to Oak Street Sunday. Drawing more than 15,000 hungry patrons last year, this year’s celebration promises to be just as satisfying, boasting more than 40 vendors and 70 different kinds of po-boys.

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Saving New Orleans Culture, One Sandwich at a Time

THIS month, New Orleans is having a party for the po’ boy. THIS month, New Orleans is having a party for the po’ boy. At the New Orleans Po-Boy Preservation Festival on Nov. 22, as brass bands play and celebrators hoist drinks, serious-minded panelists will tell tales of long-lost po’ boy shops. They will speak of the import of this city’s signature sandwich, piled with roast beef and gravy or corn-flour-breaded and fried shrimp, slathered with mayonnaise, paved with sliced pickles and sliced tomatoes, strewn with shredded lettuce, wrapped in butcher paper. At the New Orleans Po-Boy Preservation Festival on Nov. 22, as brass bands play and celebrators hoist drinks, serious-minded panelists will tell tales of long-lost po’ boy shops. They will speak of the import of this city’s signature sandwich, piled with roast beef and gravy or corn-flour-breaded and fried shrimp, slathered with mayonnaise, paved with sliced pickles and sliced tomatoes, strewn with shredded lettuce, wrapped in butcher paper.

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