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You Do You Kelly Bebe – Midnight Menu +1 – It’s New Orleans

Kelly Boffone started out baking at Maurice’s in Metairie when she was 18. It was the ideal job: starting at 4am meant she could stay all night partying and go straight to work. Little did young partying Kelly know that she would turn out to be a naturally super-talented baker and after graduating from John…

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Pudd’n Hoffmeister – Happy Hour – It’s New Orleans

Robin Rosemond started early. She left home at 13 and for her 18th birthday got thrown in jail for fighting a cop. A couple of kids and a long marriage to Herr Hoffmeister later, Robin found herself having an existential crisis at The Nutcracker Ballet in Anchorage Alaska and spending the next few years alone…

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Barbara Weaver/Thanh Nga Nguyen – War Baby – VietNOLA – It’s New Orleans

When Barbara Weaver’s father Mike went to Vietnam in 1967 to serve in the war, he brought with him not much more than a rucksack with his toothbrush, a few family photos, and some clothes. When he returned to the States almost ten years later, it was with a Vietnamese wife and seven children –…

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In It For The Money – Out to Lunch – It’s New Orleans

There are a lot of great reasons to live in New Orleans, but “making money” is not typically at the top of the list. Even though the business climate is undeniably better here now than we’ve seen in decades, money is not what drives most of us. But of course, we can’t live without it….

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Dr. Gourmet and Chef Nutella – Midnight Menu +1 – It’s New Orleans

Dr. Gourmet has a day job as a doctor and professor of medicine at Tulane University. And a side gig as a gourmet doctor at Tulane’s revolutionary Goldring Institute for Culinary Medicine. Emmy Award winning Dr Gourmet, aka Timothy Harlan, started out working in restaurants at age 11. He opened his own French Bistro in…

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