The city is a combination of Euro-Creole-Southern-seedy, mixed with amazing music, food, and historic architecture...crusted over with a bit of sadness. It was beyond words and ahhhmazing.
Tonight from the Netflix que it's Pretty Baby, starring Susan Sarandon and a 12-year old Brooke Shields. The movie is set in Storyville, the then red light district of New Orleans. Last week it was Spike Lee's documentary When the Levee's broke. We're just soaking it all up!...soaking it all up with BUTTER!
A few days ago we attempted the famous-among-dozens (a.k.a. my swole friends) recipe for Barbecue shrimp from Mr. B's Bistro! It was so easy and de-ricious...just don't pay attention to how much butter you're putting in it. Here is the recipe. And here is what it looks like in person at Mr. B's, modeled by the lovely Mrs. Kitzie Green Shepard:
And here it is prepared by Chateau Levine:
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Ben and I looked for the Spike Lee film last week- Blockbuster did not have it. How was it?
Oh, and your scrimps look so yummy!
The documentary is really good! Very sad, though...Some disturbing photos :(
My friend Jimmy lived in New Orleans for 7 years and said that he would see something there that made him think, "That's the weirdest thing I've ever seen in my life." And, sure enough, the next day he would something even weirder that would trump the previous day. He said the downward spiral of weirdness continued the entire time he was there. That city is awesome.
p.s. The one of weirdest sights I've ever seen was there too. The last time I was there (two weeks before Katrina) I was leaving the city at sunrise and saw a huge NBA-sized black transvestite sitting in the doorway of a voodoo temple drinking beer.
Totally, Chris! We talked to some locals who said the exact same thing! I love weird!!
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