Buster Holmes was famous for his beans, especially red beans. He had a restaurant in the French Quarter on Burgundy St., and in 1980, he wrote a cookbook. Holmes was a French Quarter fixture. He was always smoking or at least holding his cigar, and he had a way with beans.Holmes was born Clarence Holmes on the first day of the year in 1907 in Pointe-a-la-Hache. His father fished, trapped...
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