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 ...
Ron Kottemann, 68, started making Roman Candy -- sticks of chocolate, vanilla and strawberry taffy wrapped in wax paper -- 47 years ago. He took over the cart, a rolling, mule-drawn kitchen, from his ...