This delicious pale-green gourd with white flesh can grow 2 feet long.
ollowing Louisiana’s emancipation of enslaved people in 1864, planters desperately sought laborers and turned to the possibility of immigrant workers. A campaign ensued to recruit Sicilians to New Orleans. Many found work on the wharves, while others toiled on sugarcane estates. In 1889, the reported the arrival of 850 Sicilians