[1] He wrote approximately 9700 installments of his column "Pie Dufour's A La Mode" for the States-Item and for the Sunday edition of the New Orleans Times-Picayune during his newspaper tenure, from 1949 until his retirement in 1978.
[2] Dufour lived his entire life in New Orleans, except to serve in the US Army in World War II in a non-journalistic role.
[3] Together with fellow local historian John Churchill Chase, he taught a course on New Orleans history at Tulane University for 25 years.
[3] Dufour was a member of the gourmet group in New Orleans called "La Societe des Escargots Orleanais".
[3] A 1967 article in The New York Times characterized Dufour as a columnist and historian "who has devoted most of his professional life to the idea that history is news".