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Magic Beans and The Different Colored Soup – Midnight Menu +1 – It’s New Orleans

“Food evangelism” probably doesn’t sound too appealing, but spend a few minutes in the fresh food revival tent with Emery Sonnier and Kimisha Sawyers and you’ll be testifying you’ve seen the light and a holy band of green angels.   Emery is the Associate Director of Market Umbrella, the folks who put on 4 Farmers’…

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Perry Mason’s Electronic Speedo – Happy Hour – It’s New Orleans

Remember phone books Jessie Haynes has a couple of cocktails and next thing you know she s transported back to the 1950 s. Jessie escaped the clutches of practicing law because it wasn t as much fun as Perry Mason even though Perry Mason whatever his real name is had long since quit acting at…

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That’s Not My Real Name – Happy Hour – It’s New Orleans

One of these people is not who they say they are. Is it Mason James Cole from Marrero Nic Lefebvre from Connecticut Nina Camacho from Gretna Or Danielle Ryce from Slidell Here are your clues. Who do you believe Mason James Cole changed his name to write two novels including Buster Voodoo, has been compared…

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Simple Things Done Right – Midnight Menu +1 – It’s New Orleans

You might think naming a restaurant after a ditch is maybe sending the wrong message about the standard or even type of food you’d expect to get there. But when the ditch is “Trenasse” – the Cajun French word for a cut-through in the bayou – and the location is the tony Intercontinental Hotel on…

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Psychedelic Honey – Happy Hour – It’s New Orleans

The Caucasian Bee has the longest tongue in the bee world. Claire Bangser traveled the Caucasus shooting the bees for National Geographic and now she travels the streets of New Orleans shooting New Orleanians for the hell of it. Claire has discoverd that nine out of ten New Orleanians will willingly stop and pose for her…

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