Edgar “Dook” Chase IV is the first person to be featured with his last meal. New Orleans is the city that put “fun” in funeral, and Dook wants to host a huge feast with loved ones. To get it started, he would serve his family’s Creole Gumbo. “In my family, gumbo starts off every celebration,… Read More about 2022 Recipe Series: A Provocative Question with Dook Chase
Dear Friends, Coming together over a meal is when New Orleans people are happiest, most at ease, and also the most open. In New Orleans, food brings people together. That’s because food is deeply personal in our community, something we not only share but that is tied closely to our own sense of self. So… Read More about Introducing the 2022 Recipe Series: A Provocative Question at the Dinner Table
We conclude our 2021 transaction series with an essay and recipe from celebrated novelist and writer Tom Piazza. In his essay, “Curbside Comfort,” Tom discusses how restaurants utilized curbside pickup to meet dining challenges brought on by mandated social distancing, and how this helped in boosting our spirits. Curbside pickup remains in place, even as… Read More about Curbside Comfort
We’ve heard often during the past year and a half about how the pandemic has particularly hit, and hit hard, the hospitality industry. Food service workers struggled, not just for their livelihoods but for keeping open the restaurants at which they worked. What happens when the restaurant that may not survive is part of your… Read More about From Eddie’s to Lil Dizzy’s: A Family Legacy in Restaurants
One result of the pandemic was working from home. Some of us seamlessly transitioned, while others struggled with sharing space, 24 hours a day, with partners, children, roommates. Dining room tables, corners of a hallway, spare bedrooms, and even porches became offices. Additionally, those of us who had been in our home spaces for a… Read More about The Hymn of Him