A lot of little neighborhood stores here in New Orleans have one official name and then one name that everyone actually calls them. This often refers to the color the owners painted the store. There’s the Red Store, the Grey Store, Mike’s Red Store, The Bridge Store, Hanks. Everyone calls Rampart Food Store “the orange…
DetailsSo we’re starting the fourth week of this blog. So far we’ve only reviewed southern food, in one form or another. You might be wondering if New Orleans has other cheap food worth trying. Of course it does, even for vegetarians! This week we ate Lebanese food. We don’t like to stray from our usual…
DetailsHow do you stay fit visiting a city with such rich food? New Orleans attracts many visitors because of it’s traditional rich food. It offers a huge variety of really good places for eating out and some of these recipes have been around for well over a 100 years, making the dining experience in the…
DetailsYou might have noticed that every place we’ve reviewed so far on this blog has been a convenience store that also serves hot food. When I lived in New England, convenience stores really only served terrible hot dogs (that, unfortunately, I ate a lot of) that are cooked on those weird metal spiny things. But…
DetailsOk, I know that Styrofoam is really bad for the earth. It never goes away, so someday our great great grandchildren will line the walls of their subterranean burrows with hundred year old to-go food containers. This will help shield their soft underbellies from the daily threat of radiation. Styrofoam sucks, but it does allow…
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