Archive For The “NOLA” Category
Thursday night I tweeted about this Mexican lasagna I was cooking, and a lot of people asked me for the recipe. So here it is. It came from one of my favorite cookbooks, Cooking Up a Storm. After Katrina, folks used the Times-Picayune as a sort of trading post for recipes they’d lost in the storm. [...]
For approximately 3.5 days, I was at the beach. Destin, to be exact. There was no oil, there were no tarballs, just families from Tennessee, Mississippi, Louisiana and thereabouts. And traffic. I really liked our condo at Sandpiper Cove. We had a great view of the gulf, it wasn’t too crowded; and best of all [...]
Last week I posted on Facebook that I’d driven past two BP stations to get gas at an Exxon. I was promptly reminded that not only was Exxon responsible for the last famous oil spill, but every single gas station I could go to has been responsible for spilled oil at one point or another. [...]
You really should read this. And their story intrigued me from the start, given that it’s at the intersection of so many issues in recent American life: the debacle of the government response to Katrina, the struggles facing even the most successful immigrants, a judicial system in need of repair, the problem of wrongful conviction, [...]
