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Food first . . .

Saundra Green’s NOLA cooking classes. “We don’t count carbs and we don’t count calories,” Green jokes. “If we know we are going to be really bad, we just double up on the Lipitor.” She can’t resist adding that her grand-mère (grandmother) ate bacon fat every day of her life and lived to be 102. This…

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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…