Slurping wetly and noisily at the nourishment that is New Orleans
All apologies for my two month absence! My beloved readers (all three of you?) deserve an explanation, but I’ve got nothing. Well, actually, I have been a little down and out. I severely sprained my ankle on the way to dim sum, knocking me out for three weeks. Oh! and […]
Like having a tonic and lime at a bar, ordering a salad at a restaurant has long been associated with abstention and self-denial. In the 80s, salad was practically synonymous with dieting. A pile of iceberg (a nutritional nada, by the way) dotted with a few cherry tomatoes, sliced cucumber […]
There are five elements: earth, air, fire, water, and garlic.” -Louis Diat If a recipe calls for two cloves of garlic, do you triple it? Are your steaks lavished lovingly in a heavy drizzle of garlic butter? When dining at an Italian restaurant, do you load up on the garlic […]
For nearly two centuries a public ferry has crossed the Mississippi between the French Quarter and Algiers. Now sleek new catamarans zip back and forth, making the passage faster and more reliable. For many years, a lumbering, aging ferry carried commuters across the Mississippi River between Algiers and the French […]
Spring has officially sprung! The flowers are blooming, the bees are buzzing, ferns are stretching out tendrils from brick walls, and bright green mosses are forming lush, natural carpeting just about everywhere. When the rain takes a break, everyone in the Greater New Orleans Area is out and about enjoying […]
Once upon a time, not so long ago, there was a dearth of great Indian cuisine in the GNO. But the restaurant scene, oh boy it is a-changin’! In the past decade, pandemic and hurricanes notwithstanding, the region has seen a huge influx of Mexican restaurants (tacos a-go-go), Thai food, […]
Marigny foodhall St. Roch Market has added not one, but two new Caribbean-influenced vendors to their roster, Hype Eatz and Tropical Cabana. New Orleans-native and Delgado graduate Brandon Robinson has launched Hype Eatz, a new stand at St. Roch. As evidenced by their singular tacos, the menu blends the flavors […]
Baton Rouge-based Community Coffee just released a new flavor in time for St. Patrick’s Day, Irish Creme. Thanks to my food-writing, fringe benefits, they offered to send me an 11 oz. bag of their St. Paddy’s Day flavor gratis. My coffee package arrived just the other day and to my […]
Gianna, the Italian arm of Link Restaurant Group, has just announced they’re serving brunch Saturdays and Sunday from 11am – 3pm! And this isn’t your typical brunch fare . . . self-touted as “rustic Italian,” the new menu features semolina pancakes with Louisiana strawberries and lemon mascarpone, lamb sausage gravy […]
About four years ago, an inventive renovation combined a cluster of warehouses on Magazine Street into a fascinating hotel named after an equally fascinating woman, Eliza Jane. Inside this unique space, the developers (a.k.a. HRI Properties) also launched Couvant, a casual French brasserie with Mississippi-born chef Brad McDonald at the […]
If y’all know anything about me it’s that breakfast is totally my jam . . . and biscuits . . . and bacon, baby. I even adore international versions of the morning meal; Persian lavash-wrapped feta with fresh herbs and hot, cardamom and rose petal-laced tea; a Full English loaded […]
From Watsonville, California to Stilwell, Oklahoma, there are quite a few cities who’s claim to fame is the “Strawberry Capital of the World,” but for folks around here that title will forever and always belong to Ponchatoula. For almost two centuries, farmers in and around Tangipahoa Parish have been growing […]