The Roman Candy cart is a look at, and taste of, New Orleans’ past. The Cortese family started selling the molasses taffy from the family fruit and vegetable cart in the early 20th Century to help ...

If you’ve spent enough time in New Orleans you’ve undoubtedly seen the horse-drawn wagon selling Roman Candy. This unique treat, whose recipe has been passed down in the Cortese family for generation, ...

NEW ORLEANS — The shadows are growing long as the Roman Candy man's mule-drawn wagon rattles up Camp Street, a narrow, potholed thoroughfare that meanders along the Mississippi west from the city's ...

Meet Vidalia, the Roman Candy man's new mule The Roman Chewing Candy Man, Ron Kottemann, has a new mule named Vidalia to pull his 98-year-old neighborhood delivery cart. Ron Kottemann, the Roman Candy ...

I love Roman Candy. It's a taffy that doesn't taste like any other kind of taffy. And every time I see the Roman Candy man with his mule and his white cart with the red wheels, I make my mom and dad ...