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
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
The New Orleans-based Twisted Waffles has relocated to the ground floor café space at the New Orleans Culinary and Hospitality Institute (NOCHI). Corporate Realty’s Scott Graf, CCIM, and Austin Lavin, CCIM, represented NOCHI in this new partnership. Located at 725 Howard St at the corner of Carondelet St, the NOCHI building is on the downtown… Read More about Twisted Waffles Relocates to NOCHI Ground-Floor Café
With 2020 as a backdrop and with food being a common denominator that brings people together, this year Corporate Realty features both recipes and essays by writers who have thoughts to share about both food and the events of the past year. One focus from the events of the past year was the inequities… Read More about A Cosmic Re-set for Our Nation’s Table
Yesterday the world observed a milestone: one year of the coronavirus pandemic, as it was declared by the World Health Organization on March 11, 2020. One year ago in the US, the day began with more than 1,000 people infected in 40 states and at least 30 deaths. By that evening, European travel to the… Read More about Beyond the Plate: One Year Later for Our Restaurants