Categotry Archives: Thoughts
Ten Years after Katrina
This year marks the tenth anniversary of the devastating storm known as Katrina. Through a great deal of help from outsiders and inhabitants alike, the city of New Orleans is once again a thriving community. In fact it is now a better place to live, because of an unexpected horrific tragedy that gave a city the opportunity to rebuild and remake itself. Being raised in New Orleans and personally touched by the storm I consequently wrote my Mother’s story about […]
Redford or DiCaprio?
This weekend we are going to see the Great Gatsby. I’m wondering how different DiCaprio will play Gatsby versus Robert Redford. Redford is close to eighty; so this remake is a long time coming. My daughter Lilly saw it the other night at a special screening and she emailed me the following about her evening. Wish I had been invited! She wrote, “As an elite member of “The Gilt Groupe” I was treated as a V.I.P. this past Wednesday evening at a […]
Erotic Foods for Valentine’s Day
For the most sensuous foods to serve this coming Valentine’s Day, think those that incorporate all five senses in your menu and by all means pick those you can eat with your fingers. Valentine’s Day is for love and lovers; think sound, sight, touch, smell and of course taste. The goal is to increase relaxation and promote sociability if you catch the flow. Start by opening a bottle of champagne. Whatever your pocketbook can afford determines what you buy. Just […]
Explore all your senses
It is not food that I write about today. It is just something I wish to share: it is something good and something to make you feel good, as it does me. My husband introduced me to the music of Gato Barbieri many years ago; but my head was somewhere else at the time. Maybe it was rearing my children, or the thousands of hours I spent volunteering or working at my store or maybe I just didn’t take the time to […]
The Casino on my Mind
I had been looking forward to a break from reality? We had been working six days a week for the last six months and my recurring thought was,” if I have to go back to work tomorrow, I’ll go crazy.” I wasn’t looking for an escape… I was looking to “es”CAPE”! After a little thought, I found the answer. My pleasure would be to enter the world that never sleeps: a world where the mind doesn’t have to think., and […]
Ladies Who Lunch
It was a beautiful day in Atlanta as well as the day my girlfriends and family were taking me to lunch for my birthday. I was all set to leave and lo and behold the battery in my car was dead. Seeing as though I was the guest of honor, I figured some may worry if I wasn’t on time. But as one of my daughter-in-laws always says, “no worries, no pressure”, I called her to pick me up […]
Who do I root for? LSU or Alabama?
This coming weekend, is my birthday. It is also a nostalgic weekend for me as the memories of my youth are front and center in my mind. It is the weekend that the fighting Tigers of LSU meet the Crimson Tide of the University of Alabama. Ranked number one and two in the nation, the two powerhouse teams will fight it out for the privilege of being ranked the best of the best. My query is who do I root […]
Fresh fruit, vegetable and salad presentation
Just a pile of apples can tempt you when you’re hungry; but cut into a beautiful variety of fruit or spy a beautifully arranged salad or vegetable platter and your senses come alive. Kids are back in school signaling that summer has ended and with colder weather approaching its time to get in your last tastes of ripe and juicy fruit, which only the summer months can provide. Salads are on menus daily, so keep them looking appetizing so no […]
International Food Bloggers Conference in New Orleans
I recently attended the International Food Bloggers Conference in New Orleans. Friday was the first day of the conference and I decided to start my second day in the city with a cup of café au lait and that delicious donut N.O. is famous for, the beignet. I headed straight to Café’ du Monde on Decatur Street. Had two cups and three donuts and I would have had more; but I knew the weekend would provide more good food. Fortified […]
Onion Rings and Harry Connick, Jr. in the Big Easy
I’ve just returned from the International Food Bloggers Conference in New Orleans and absolutely adored another opportunity to visit the city I was raised in. It was going to be a foodie’s weekend like it always is when I’m in town, so I went straight to lunch at a very cool place close to Lake Ponchartrain, called Russell’s Marina Grill. It seems that frying any type of food is an art form in the Big Easy, so I ordered their […]