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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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The Revolution Continues – Out to Lunch – It’s New Orleans

One of the questions people in the business community have been asking is, What happens when the post-Katrina economic rejuvenation gets old? Are the next generation of innovators going to go someplace else? Peter’s guests on today’s show answer that question with a resounding “no.” They both head up new and growing businesses that have…

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Eric Tang on Vietnamese and African American Solidarity post-Katrina – VietNOLA – It’s New Orleans

When we think of the big city racial crises, there’s often that image of an Asian community caught in the middle of it – perhaps epitomized by the Asian shopkeeper in Spike Lee’s “Do the Right Thing” who, in defending his business from the same angry mob that had just burned down Sal’s Pizzaria shouts: …

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Trucks Powered By Figs – Midnight Menu +1 – It’s New Orleans

When Barrie Schwarz went home from work as a food runner in a restaurant and tried to figure out what she could do to open a business in between throwing parties at her house, she realized that maybe if she combined all three parts of her life – throwing parties at her house for the…

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