Stumbled on this while going a Google search for something else.
This is a man who clearly loves his food and he found heaven on earth in New Orleans and southern Louisiana. This report happens to be from 1994, but believe me, they’re still doing it here.
Click here for: Eating my way through New Orleans
I don’t know if Sara Roahen can swing a hammer, but she sure has a way with words and food and her new book “Gumbo Tales” is a big contribution to rebuilding New Orleans’ culture and sharing it with the rest of the world. (more…)
Two food festivals this weekend…
The French Market Creole Tomato Festival and…
The debut of the Seafood Festival at the US Mint building.
The New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Foundation is rolling a Cajun/Zydeco festival into the seafood festival and the Tomato Festival will feature Latin music (salsa…get it?)
All in all, four music stages featuring Lil’ Queenie, Frankie Ford, Bob French, the Zydepunks and more.
Great food, great music, and you can help bring justice to New Orleans by bringing your sweet self. Hard to beat that.
T’aint exactly news, but the Camellia Grill which was closed for 20 months after the federal levee failures (don’t call it “Kartrina”), reopened for business on April 20th.
What is the Camellia Grill? An Uptown neighborhood favorite. Great breakfasts, great sandwiches, late hours.
The owners threw in the towel after the levee failures even though the building was not damaged. A customer campaign, by Post-It notes, encouraged new owners to step in and re-open.
Here’s a sweet, home-made video that tells the story beautifully:
Great idea. A TV travel series devoted to the wonders of Post-Katrina New Orleans. It’s called “A Whole New Orleans.”
New Orleans still is one of the greatest cities in the world to visit and live in. Glad to see someone using the power of produced TV to tell the story.
Details: http://www.wholeneworleans.com
Who was the first group to bring hot food to New Orleans after Katrina?
It wasn’t FEMA. It wasn’t the Red Cross. It wasn’t the National Guard.
According the the city of New Orleans and the disaster relief agencies in the Gulf States, Food Not Bombs was the only group coordinating food to the survivors on a daily basis.
Strangely, the mass media managed to miss this obvious story. This video focuses on relief efforts in Waveland, Mississippi, but Food Not Bombs was active (and is still active) in New Orleans
I’m crazy about this band which describes its music as gypsy bistro jazz.
You can hear them Wednesday and Thursday nights at the Spotted Cat on Frenchman Street.
Frenchman Street is a must for jazz lovers. Half a dozen clubs offer live music on a single block. My favorites are the Spotted Cat, DBA, Snug Harbor and Cafe Brasil. The Praline Connection on the same street is a super Soul Food joint with very reasonable prices.
“Brazil” featuring a solo by Aurora Nealand on soprano sax
Another Aurora Nealand solo (click below)
Tom Fitzmoris is keeping track of all the restaurants that have re-openned in the city since the levee failures. It’s a superb resource listing restaurants by neighborhood with ratings.
The site is called, appropriately enough, the New Orleans Menu Restaurant Index.
There was once a time when oyster beds were so plentiful in the New York City area that oysters were given away as bar food. Then pollution and environmental degradation killed them off entirely.
Coastal Louisiana which supplies New Orleans restaurants with a treasure trove of fresh seafood is facing ongoing environmental challenges, made worse by the devastation of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.
Before the 2005 hurricanes, Louisiana harvested 40% of the nation’s oysters. The storms destroyed the equivalent of over one entire year’s production.
Louisiana needs coastal restoration.
New Orleans has one of the strongest culinary traditions in the US, if not the entire world.
New Orleans restaurants were among the first businesses in the city to re-open their doors after the levee failures. In fact, some scarcely closed as chefs and kitchen staffs labored around the clock to provide food to rescue workers and first responders.
How can you help New Orleans right now?
Amazingly, it can be as simple as coming to town and eating like a king (or queen.) How hard is that?
This short documentary was originally presented at the 2006 James Beard Awards in New York City as a tribute to New Orleans chefs who were collectively recognized for their collective efforts.
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