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New Orleans’ legendary grace lives on after years spent re-building in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. NIGHT+DAY New Orleans celebrates the spirit of this spectacular city by taking you inside the old-school jazz joints, the hip new restaurants, and the neighborhood bars that make it one of the coolest travel destinations in the world.
March Love Letter
Carnival came early this year. That means the city gets a breather before the French Quarter Festival and Jazz Fest dominate our days. We have a chance to cross a few items off our to-do lists. For me, that means revisiting the new restaurants that opened at the end of last year.
A duo of rustic Italian restaurants continues to be the talk of the town. Local favorite Adolfo Garcia (RioMar, La Boca) opened A Mano (amanonola.com) in the Warehouse Arts District. Celebrity chef John Besh (August, Lüke) gave rustic Italian fare a splashy, fashionable stage at Domenica (domenicarestaurant.com) inside the Roosevelt Hotel. Besh’s other new venture, the American Sector (nationalww2museum.org/american-sector), might initially sound less promising. It’s a theme restaurant inside the National World War II Museum. Besh, however, updated 1940s fare with a contemporary chef’s flair and dug into the archives for historically correct cocktails.
Bart Bell, a veteran of Emeril’s Delmonico, now helms his own kitchen at the Crescent Pie and Sausage Co. (crescentpieandsausage.com), a neighborhood joint with handmade charcuterie and gourmet pizzas. And James Leeming, another chef with a long history in local fine dining, opened a breakfast and lunch spot called Coulis, which replaces the shuttered and much missed Bluebird Café.
Of course, some people will opt to stay at home and cook. It’s a great month for that as well. On Saturday, Mar. 13, the Irish Channel St. Patrick’s Day Club Parade (irishchannelno.org) rolls down Magazine Street tossing potatoes, cabbage, and carrots along with green beads. You can make a pot of soup without even stopping by the grocery store!
Todd Price
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Night+Day is pleased to be contributing $1 of each Night+Day New
Orleans sale for Katrina relief. The funds will be divided between two
outstanding organizations: Sweet Home New Orleans (Renew Our Music Project) and Make It Right. We encourage you to learn more—and we thank
you for your help.
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NEW ORLEANS (2009/10):
Emeril Lagasse (Restaurateur)
 Emeril Lagasse is known for his big personality on TV, but the “Bam” man has also been quietly working to ensure the culinary future of New Orleans. Through his Emeril Lagasse Foundation and the annual Carnival du Vin auction and gala, he’s raised more than $8 million to benefit children’s arts, culinary, and education programs in New Orleans and across the Gulf South. And he’s had some help from a few friends, such as Michael Mina, Thomas Keller, and Mario Batali, who each cooked a course at the most recent Carnival du Vin dinner. “I’m amazed and inspired by how passionate today’s youth are about
food and cooking,” Lagasse says. Lagasse paid for the creation of an advanced culinary training center at Café Reconcile, a program that teaches job skills to inner-city youth and also serves a fine plate of white beans and shrimp. He started a culinary curriculum at NOCCA (New Orleans Center for Creative Arts), a public high school for the arts that trained Wynton Marsalis, Harry Connick Jr., and actor Wendell Pierce of The Wire. And Lagasse built the outdoor classroom at New Orleans’ Edible Schoolyard, the first extension of Alice Waters’ Berkeley-based garden, which teaches children to eat well. “It’s my hope to inspire the future generation and help provide them with the tools they need to grow into creative, happy, and productive people,” he says. “We have to give back in order for things to evolve.”
Check out our choice for the
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The Urbie Awards.
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