My NOLA Food Baby

I just got back from four days in New Orleans. I'm on an alumni executive committee of my college and we meet three times a year - twice on the pretty but chilly campus in New England and once at a remote location. This year, the brilliant powers that be chose New Orleans.

We did get college business done - honest. But we got a lot of other business done too - primarily the business of eating. I have never eaten so much or so well in my life. (Thus the feeling this morning that I'm pregnant with a food baby - which I believe would resemble a fried oyster or perhaps a little crawfish.) The vice chair of our committee yesterday sent out a Word doc labeled "alternative minutes" which were simply a recitation of all the things we ate (and drank).

NOLA has been rebuilding since Katrina, with mixed results. There is a museum off the French quarter that has a hurricaine exhibit that is indescribably sad. So much loss, so much outrage about how things were handled. I certainly couldn't look at an overpass down there without thinking of those people stranded, or at the water marks on buildings or so many other things.

But they are gearing up for Mardi Gras all ready, there is music everywhere and man, those pots and pans are rattling. Yeah, I over did it. But - Je regrette rien.

 

 

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[A Fellow Foodie]

Wait . . . did you just call me what I think you did??? Seriously, I also think NOLA has some of the best food on the planet. I'm jealous. This is when you really need to get that food fax invented!