Spatula Diaries: Hopped up on pops

“Last year, San Francisco-based restaurant consultant Andrew Freeman and Co. declared gourmet popsicles a growing nationwide trend in the firm’s annual hottest fads report, and I’ve been eager to see when a reinvented popsicle might hit our local market (and if it could supplant sno-balls or the fantastically loud Pinkie Dinkie Man who comes through my neighborhood). Sure enough, Shreveport-based Geauxsicles recently made its pops available at Maxwell’s Markets,” writes 225 food blogger Maggie Heyn Richardson. “The refreshing fleur-de-lis embossed handmade pops come in 12 flavors locally and include real fruit and ingredients like caramel, chocolate and Nutella.” Click here to read more in this week’s Spatula Diaries.