Have you heard this one? Bill Gates walks into a bar… Actually, it’s not a joke. It’s a lesson about the definition of averages. Bill Gates walks into a bar. There’s 20 people in there. The average net worth of everybody in the bar is now 5 billion dollars. In a similar manner, New Orleans…
Read MoreHappy Hour is billed as “Random conversation with folks who have nothing in common.” Anything that’s truly random will, sooner or later, appear to us not to be. Like flipping a coin and getting four “heads” in a row. Or inviting random people to sit around a table at a bar in New Orleans and…
Read MoreOn this week’s show, we take a look at immigration and its impact on the American food landscape. We begin with Rick Bayless, whose award-winning Frontera restaurants are bolstered by workers who come from immigrant backgrounds. Rick explains how many of his staff members were brought to the country as children and are now facing…
Read MoreShow business has all kinds of folklore and superstitions. One of them is, “Never work with pets or kids.” Not because entertainers don’t like pets or kids, it’s because they don’t want to be up-staged by them. Peter Ricchiuti’s guests on today’s Out to Lunch are both entertainers who have chosen to ignore this advice. They’re…
Read MoreKimberly Kaye woke up at 3AM one morning and knew she was dying. She was right. Months later, after spending weeks in a hyperbaric chamber in New Orleans and months at the Cleveland Clinic, Kimberly finally found out she had something exotic called EDS, a rare, genetic, connective tissue disorder. Today Kimberly is kicking…
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