Tag Archives: New Orleans

Missing New Orleans…

Posted on January 4, 2013 by

In the past few days I have heard of four different people who have just come from, or are making their way to, New Orleans. This news has left me feeling quite nostalgic for the city that I love, causing … Continue reading →

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Dirty South Road Trip, 2012: Revelation #3

Posted on August 9, 2012 by

As I mentioned in an earlier post, one of my major pet peeves when traveling is having a bad meal. Any meal, even breakfast, must offer me some kind of pleasure, for as a person who can go for quite … Continue reading →

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Dirty South Road Trip, 2012: Revelation #2

Posted on July 15, 2012 by

As I mentioned in my first Dirty South post, when I was planning our road trip to New Orleans, I made sure that all (or most) of our rest stops occurred in places where Coco, our 1 year-old standard poodle, … Continue reading →

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Dirty South Road Trip, 2012: Revelation #1

Posted on July 14, 2012 by

When I first found out that I had been invited to present a paper at a conference in New Orleans–a paper on Dancer in the Dark; the conference, Deleuze Studies–my first thought was this: family road trip. One of things that … Continue reading →

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More Vegetables Please…

Posted on July 12, 2012 by

A few years ago I read an article by Adam Gopnik in The New Yorker called “Two Cooks,” about a restaurant in Paris whose menu was comprised almost exclusively of vegetables. There is an image from the article that has … Continue reading →

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Cocktail to Cure What Ails You…

Posted on November 7, 2009 by

A few days ago, I was trying in vain to clear some detritus from the kitchen cupboards when I unearthed a bottle of absinthe. It had been given to me a few years ago as a birthday present by some … Continue reading →

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