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BOOK SIGNING WITH POPPY TOOKER, AUTHOR OF “LOUISIANA EATS!”

On Saturday, December 7, from 2 to 4 p.m., culinary enthusiast, author, and radio host Poppy Tooker will sign copies of her new book Louisiana Eats!: The People, Their Food, and Their Stories (Pelican Publishing Company, August 2013) at The Historic New Orleans Collection’s museum shop, located at 533 Royal Street in the French Quarter.

Book signing with Poppy Tooker, author of Louisiana Eats!: The People, Their Food, and Their Stories
Saturday, December 7
2–4 p.m.
The Shop at The Collection, 533 Royal Street
Free and open to the public. The book retails for $24.95 and will be available for purchase at the event.

As the host of the popular public radio show Louisiana Eats!, Tooker is passionate about food and the people who make it. Her new book gives readers an in-depth, behind the scenes look at Louisiana food producers and personalities interviewed on her show.

The book introduces the reader to stories previously untold with transcripts of 15 interviews with specialists of iconic Louisiana foods, accompanying essays and recipes and portrait photographs by David Spielman of the subjects. Tooker, a native New Orleanian, examines the place that food and race play on Louisiana’s tables and champions the growers and food producers who are preserving endangered indigenous ingredients like Creole cream cheese and mirlitons.

Louisiana Eats! retails for $24.95 and will be available for purchase at the event. In addition to hosting the signing with Tooker, The Shop at The Collection will also be hosting its annual Member Appreciation Day and trunk show with Mignon Faget, Ltd. on December 7, giving readers and shoppers plenty of reasons to visit. More information is available at http://www.hnoc.org or (504) 523-4662.

 

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Love Letter to My City

Well, this letter could really be titled “Love Letter to the French Quarter” since that is where my mother brought me as a “world-weary” teenager and where I found my city. That lovely introduction to it all was why I write about the Quarter today; so that others will come to it and find their own home. I wrote this in an hour and sent it off without rereading it again so that I would have to let the emotion stay in there.

Love Letter/HuffPost

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Kingfish is back in the Quarter

Well, not the same Kingfish, but maybe one just as populist and colorful. The chef, Greg Sonnier is one of the most celebrated chefs in town and spent many years working the line for KPauls and other places before opening his own in MidCity, then Uptown. The restaurant also has a “grab and go” section at Counter by Kingfish which lets busy office workers or harried tourists pick up pre-made salads and sandwiches.

Counter by Kingfish is located 335 Chartres St., New Orleans. Currently it is open daily from 11 a.m.–6 p.m. Call 504.587.0908 for more information.

http://www.nola.com/dining/index.ssf/2013/11/kingfish_counter_offers_casual.html

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Landrieu suspends taxi inspector over incident with FQ tour guide

Landrieu suspends taxi inspector over incident with FQ tour guide | wwltv.com New Orleans.

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The Lens launches a new event series, Breakfast with the Newsmakers

Breakfast with the Newsmakers will be a regular monthly event presented by The Lens. They will host a guest speaker involved in the day’s news at the historic Basin Street Station on the edge of the French Quarter.

The public is invited to a live interview conducted by award-winning Lens reporters and editors, followed by an audience Q&A.

Each event will be streamed online and stored on The Lens website for readers unable to attend.

Please join them on Thursday, Nov. 21 for the inaugural Breakfast with the Newsmakers, with guest John Barry.

The Lens’ environmental reporter, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Bob Marshall, will talk with John Barry, who is leading the charge to sue the oil and gas industry for damages to Louisiana’s coast. An audience question-and-answer session will follow.

Where: Basin Street Station & Visitors’ Center, 4th Floor, 501 Basin Street

Date: Thursday, Nov. 21

Time: 7:30 – 9 a.m.

7:30 a.m.: Doors open for breakfast and networking

8 a.m.: Bob Marshall interviews John Barry

8:40 a.m.: Audience Q&A

Admission free to Lens members at the Friend level and above.

Suggested donation $10 for non-members.

Basin Street Station meeting facilities are generously donated to our Breakfast with the Newsmakers series by Michael Valentino and Jay Valentino, developers of the cultural website New Orleans & Me.

RESERVATIONS REQUIRED

To reserve your spot, please email Eileen Loh, at eloh@TheLensNola.org.

For information about sponsorship opportunities for Breakfast with the Newsmakers,

please email eloh@TheLensNola.org or give Eileen a call at (504) 345-6789.

The Lens

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New Orleans Fringe Festival is around the corner

Get thee to the volunteer sign up or the ticket site. You’ll thank me.

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Garbage in, garbage out: ‘Grand vision’ for French Market junks tradition | The Lens

Local writer CW Cannon defends the vitality of the current vendor base and questions the new French Market director’s understanding of tradition and desired products.

Story | The Lens.