Out To Lunch - New Orleans Business Podcast

It’s New Orleans: Out to Lunch

Hosted ByPeter Ricchiuti

Tulane University A.B. Freeman School of Business finance professor Peter Ricchiuti holds court over lunch at Columns in Uptown New Orleans. Peter's lunch guests are New Orleans business people, from startups to CEO's, from artists to tech entrepreneurs, musicians to movers-and-shakers. New Orleans is on everybody's list as a great place to party but it's also on many lists of the best place to start a business. Peter's deeply knowledgable and equally levity-laden approach to business conversation neatly makese sense of the Crescent City's contradictions.

Imported Balls – Out to Lunch – It’s New Orleans

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One of the topics in the national debate these days is trade. Meaning imports and exports.

Onn Out to lunch, Pater and his guests take a look at two of the most obscure imports into the United States, and New Orleans. One from Britain, the other from Italy.

Francis Palumbo

Francis Palumbo joins Peter to talk about the British import. Francis is a member of the board of The Crescent City Blues Rugby Football club.

T.J. Stranova

T.J. Stranova is an authority on the Italian import. T.J is President of the Italian American Bocce Club of Greater New Orleans.

Bocce and rugby in the wine room at Commander's

Yes, while the rest of the business community is talking about free trade, NAFTA, The TPP, and tariffs, Out to Lunch is taking a break from all that to talk about imported ball games. Rugby. And Bocce.

Photos at Commander’s Palace by Alison Moon.

Realtor Tracey Moore