Like any other tourist destination, New Orleans has a neighborhood where the tourists hang out. The French Quarter is amazing in its own right–people stay there because it is beautiful and creepy and filled with gas street lamps and little restaurants. But it is also a party all of the time, and walking…
Archives for March 2011
new orleans
If you think that 2 days might is a very small amount of time to eat your way through New Orleans, you would be right. However, I assure you that if you keep to an hourly eating schedule, anything is possible. We got back in a few hours ago, and I’m not quite seeing straight…
ikea and apizza
There have been several trips to Ikea in the last few months. I’ll admit that I have had a passionate Italian sort of relationship with Ikea in the past, but I think I’m really done. It’s not that Ikea is a bad thing, as far as those big companies go. The whole Swedish thing…
white bean soup with garlic, kale, and sausage
There was a bakery in Santa Fe that I used to go to when I was in school, a place called Sage Bakehouse. It was all concrete inside, big and cavernous and always warm from the ovens. They had a few little tables and a counter up front, and I loved to sit there and…
celebrating
Thank you. Last week I posted this, and the next morning we learned that there had been an earthquake so major that it actual shifted the axis of the earth. I stayed in my house, and I worked and worked, and every few hours I watched another video of water rushing through city streets. It’s…