Jerry Strahan has been wrangling Lucky Dog vendors for nearly 40 years and has the stories to prove it. Amy Wendel carries on the family tradition of Hove, the French Quarter’s French Creole perfumery. Amy and Jerry pay it forward with online marketersEmber Networks .
Read MoreIn her new book Dreaming of Money in Ho Chi Minh City, Allison Truitt covers everything from gold shops to temples. A Caucasian woman fluent in Vietnamese, Truitt spent 10 years in Vietnam and New Orleans researching her book and raising bi-racial children.
Read MoreAlex McConduit graduates from selling casinos to writing children’s books and reinventing crowd-funding NOLA style. Alex’s next book might be “Snoozer Quinn’s Misshapen Forehead” courtesy of Snoozer’s historian & great niece Kathryn Hobgood Ray. Andrew Duhon learns a harsh lesson from jaded preschoolers.
Read MorePete Tompkins and Joel Dondis, the Kings of chocolate city empires Southern Candymakers and Sucre hold court at Commander’s Palace, on the joys and struggles of the candy biz. On the other side of street, the opposite of candy – the new alternative healthy living store, Well.
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