I’m basically food obsessed and as I mentioned in an earlier blog I found out only after Food Inc. and Michael Pollan’s writing that there is a reason for my obsession and it is called the food industry which has turned mere food into categories of protein, carbs, fat or Vitamin this and that. I’ve often thought that I needed to go to classes to get better informed about food but now I find that…
Yesterday, Tin was drumming on the front door wanting to go out out out but the rains were coming down in a deluge that could only be imagined by someone contemplating the end of the world and Noah and arks. We live here in New Orleans on the edges as the sub for Michele was telling us in yoga – her name is Jackie and she works with Angola prisoners who are mainly in solitary…
Steve came to stay at the LaLa while we were in Spain – you’d think someone who knows New Orleans’ summers would make no effort to come during July/August but he says he likes the slow pace of summers here and I have to agree – there is something about the city when there are not eight million festivals going on (albeit Satchmo Fest just passed) and hardly any tourists are crowding the French Quarter…
1 . I have caffeine aversion or rather let me put it bluntly, when I have caffeine people find me averse. While Tatjana was in NY she picked up another cake of premium pur uhr tea for me and so I was trying to use up the dregs of what I had left from the last cake she brought and I was overdoing my caffeine intake. This pur uhr has the most richness for being…
If you’ve never read Bartlby the Scriviner then that phrase might not have the repetitive weight that it should have – I would prefer not to is Bartlby’s moniker of a sort and anyway it is the phrase that I’ve adopted for nearly everything since back from vacation. I was in the land of the free (Spain) and now I’m an indentured servant (New Orleans) with nothing but an endless amount of work, chores and…
It must be a slow summer news streak if the only news that seems to be breaking through is an alert that a fish had oil levels in it in the Gulf which could indicate the whole kit and kaboodle is toxic and we’re going to hell in a handbasket, Sarah Palin’s daughter’s babydaddy is running for mayor up in Alaska, and there is a spread of new super virus bugs coming out of Asia…
I’m midway into the Omnivore’s Dilemma and decided to peruse the labels in our refrigerator feeling sure that no high fructose corn syrup was present anywhere because we don’t eat processed food and ah ha – I found some in the sweet pickle relish that I use for my tuna fish salad, I found it in the Creole Tomato dressing that I adore and now want to write them and tell them to change it,…
I’ve heard people say it’s hot in New York, and burning hot in Germany, and forget about Spain where all heat resides or Morocco where it is unbearable – at the end of the day y’all don’t know heat – New Orleans wrote the book on tropical heat. I always said that New Orleans was like having valium in the ether for me – I don’t need to self medicate because there is a spirit…
From Havainas to Fit Flops, the latest and surely the dumbest craze to hit the fashion world, flip flops are as ubiquitous as the summer months these days. There is one problem with this picture – flip flops are the worst shoes you could ever put on your feet, you are better off barefoot. My podiatrist, Dr. Panepinto with Ochsner, said flip flops cause bunions, hammer toes and collapsed arches. Why? Wearing flip flops causes…