FROM PRALINES AND BEIGNETS to Creole gumbo and po’ boys, New Orleans and its people have held fast to culinary traditions for centuries, with each generation cherishing the dishes of the past and lovingly handing them along to the next. Creole cream cheese is one such delicacy, which had its origins in the earliest European settlements in New Orleans but quite nearly disappeared in the industrialization and commodification of the 20th century.
The first European settlers arrived in Louisiana to find that some of their favorite foods didn’t
