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New Orleans: Paradise for Adolescents and Foodies!

Good piece by David Rosengarten, leaving aside the inevitable “Big Easy” clichés. I would however take issue with the notion that the best oysters are to be had in NOLA. It’s the Pacific Northwest, specifically Washington State and B.C. that has the best raw oysters. And I say that as someone who knows and deeply…

po’boy

All about the po’boy My po’boy is a hot mess. The spicy smoked sausage, slicked by its own fireball-orange grease, is determined to slide out the sides of the Leidenheimer loaf. The links are further lubricated by two types of mustard (yellow and Creole) and a slather of chili that ramps up the ooze factor. By…

New Orleans’ Top 10 restaurants for 2012

As with all lists, this is bound to be contentious – and of course this being NOLA you can have wildly delicious food without going to a fancy eatery. Of the top-10 I have only been to one – the perennial Commander’s Palace. And yes, it did live up to being one of my most…

The Man Who Ate New Orleans

Now why didn’t I think of this as the premise to a documentary? So, I’ll do it without the cameras around. Up to 722 stops already and as the Rev. Ray Cannata says in the video “Life flows from the table. NOLA is both heaven and hell – the former something to enjoy, the latter something to…

Tasting the blues

Following on from Floyd here is the much more reserved Rick Stein who goes on a sojourn through the Mississippi Delta. It was Floyd who gave Rick his television break and I notice that Dave Prichard who Floyd “directed” (Prichard was ostensibly the director), directs Stein here. Ever since the early 1960s, Rick Stein has been in…

Shooting Bourdain

From Portland to NOLA: two of my favourite places. A Week In The Life Of Zach Zamboni, Anthony Bourdain’s Cinematographer. Anthony BourdainAnthony Bourdain: No Reservationsdooky chasefoodnew orleansZach Zamboni