NOLA food diaspora -- evidence bits

"modom" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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From today's Dallas Morning News:

"Somebody send me a freakin' po'boy. Fat chance in Dallas. They
don't even have French bread out here..." --Message from an evacuee
posted on a nola.com bulletin board.

" I got red beans and rice here in PA, and it was dry, flavorless
baked beans and Minute Rice with a cut-in-half hot dog on the side. I
really almost cried." -- Reply from another evacuee.

I can only imagine the food experiences and disappointments of the
NOLA evacuees who landed in places like Emory, TX. I mean for one,
it's dry. Then there's the issue of seafood: Mrs Paul's or catfish or
Star Kist or bait.

As another New Orleans evacuee I'd do just about anything for a good bowl of
gumbo or an oyster Po-Boy. I'm in Savannah which isn't bad food-wise, but I
miss the food from back home. Maybe even more than the food, I miss the
people and the neighborhood joints.

-Mike

"Michael Pearce" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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As another New Orleans evacuee I'd do just about anything for a good bowl

of

Quoted message said:

gumbo or an oyster Po-Boy. I'm in Savannah which isn't bad food-wise, but

I

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miss the food from back home. Maybe even more than the food, I miss the
people and the neighborhood joints.

One possible positive coming out of the Katrina diaspora - and I realize
there aren't a lot, but we have to take 'em when and where we can -
is that perhaps a number of those who have left New Orleans and
won't be returning will bring their food traditions out to the rest of us.
I wouldn't be at all surprised to see an increase in the number of
Cajun, etc., restaurants across the rest of the country.

I wish you the best in getting through this and recovering; if
I thought New Orleans was truly gone forever, I'd be missing the
neighborhoods and the people a lot myself. But I am looking
forward to getting back there some time soon, and enjoying
it all again.

Bob M.

Michael Pearce said:

As another New Orleans evacuee I'd do just about anything for a good bowl of
gumbo or an oyster Po-Boy.

Doesn't anyone from NOLA know how to cook!?

nb

notbob said:

Michael Pearce said:

As another New Orleans evacuee I'd do just about anything for a good bowl of
gumbo or an oyster Po-Boy.

Doesn't anyone from NOLA know how to cook!?

nb

You ever try cooking in a kitchen with 6 feet of water in it?

"D.A.Martinich" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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notbob said:

Michael Pearce said:

As another New Orleans evacuee I'd do just about anything for a good
bowl of
gumbo or an oyster Po-Boy.

Doesn't anyone from NOLA know how to cook!?

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You ever try cooking in a kitchen with 6 feet of water in it?

You mean the people evacuated to other flooded places?

nancy

Michael Pearce said:

"modom" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Quoted message said:

From today's Dallas Morning News:

"Somebody send me a freakin' po'boy. Fat chance in Dallas. They
don't even have French bread out here..." --Message from an evacuee
posted on a nola.com bulletin board.

" I got red beans and rice here in PA, and it was dry, flavorless
baked beans and Minute Rice with a cut-in-half hot dog on the side. I
really almost cried." -- Reply from another evacuee.

I can only imagine the food experiences and disappointments of the
NOLA evacuees who landed in places like Emory, TX. I mean for one,
it's dry. Then there's the issue of seafood: Mrs Paul's or catfish or
Star Kist or bait.

As another New Orleans evacuee I'd do just about anything for a good bowl of
gumbo or an oyster Po-Boy. I'm in Savannah which isn't bad food-wise, but I
miss the food from back home. Maybe even more than the food, I miss the
people and the neighborhood joints.

-Mike

I'd love to fix up a pot of gumbo for you, Mike. And I wish the
oyster po'boys where you are were as plentiful as partisan accusations
of incompetence in the face of this awful shame of a disaster.

Food is home for most of us. Food is love. Love of family. Love of
place. Love of home. Love of culture and a community that shares
that culture.

I pray that you'll be home and safe and well-fed on that love of
community very soon, and that the people in charge of the
reconstruction don't turn NOLA into a white-bread, Disneyfied
imitation of what was its beautiful Creole pluralism, its ragged gumbo
culture. America needs that city in more ways than one.

modom

Bob Myers said:

"Michael Pearce" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Quoted message said:

As another New Orleans evacuee I'd do just about anything for a good bowl

of

Quoted message said:

gumbo or an oyster Po-Boy. I'm in Savannah which isn't bad food-wise, but

I

Quoted message said:

miss the food from back home. Maybe even more than the food, I miss the
people and the neighborhood joints.

One possible positive coming out of the Katrina diaspora - and I realize
there aren't a lot, but we have to take 'em when and where we can -
is that perhaps a number of those who have left New Orleans and
won't be returning will bring their food traditions out to the rest of us.
I wouldn't be at all surprised to see an increase in the number of
Cajun, etc., restaurants across the rest of the country.

I wish you the best in getting through this and recovering; if
I thought New Orleans was truly gone forever, I'd be missing the
neighborhoods and the people a lot myself. But I am looking
forward to getting back there some time soon, and enjoying
it all again.

Bob M.

There was a letter in the Dallas paper this morning from a Red Cross
volunteer who felt the need to answer some of the classist. racist
comments she'd heard from some of the less charitable Dallasites she's
spoken with. Her opinion was much in agreement with yours about the
benefits to our food culture of having so many inspired and talented
Creole cooks spread out across Texas and the rest of America.

modom

notbob said:

Michael Pearce said:

As another New Orleans evacuee I'd do just about anything for a good bowl of
gumbo or an oyster Po-Boy.

Doesn't anyone from NOLA know how to cook!?

nb

Heh. If you ain't got a pot to [censored] in, you ain't likely got a gumbo
pot either. But you already know that, I'm sure.

modom

Nancy Young said:

"D.A.Martinich" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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notbob said:

On 2005-09-18, Michael Pearce <[email hidden]> wrote:

> As another New Orleans evacuee I'd do just about anything for a good
> bowl of
> gumbo or an oyster Po-Boy.

Doesn't anyone from NOLA know how to cook!?

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You ever try cooking in a kitchen with 6 feet of water in it?

You mean the people evacuated to other flooded places?

nancy

Now, Nancy... The folks I know who evacuated left with only two days
worth of clothing. They didn't bring their kitchens and pantries with
them.

modom

modom said:

From today's Dallas Morning News:

"Somebody send me a freakin' po'boy. Fat chance in Dallas. They
don't even have French bread out here..." --Message from an evacuee
posted on a nola.com bulletin board.

" I got red beans and rice here in PA, and it was dry, flavorless
baked beans and Minute Rice with a cut-in-half hot dog on the side. I
really almost cried." -- Reply from another evacuee.

I can only imagine the food experiences and disappointments of the
NOLA evacuees who landed in places like Emory, TX. I mean for one,
it's dry. Then there's the issue of seafood: Mrs Paul's or catfish or
Star Kist or bait.

Coulda went to Brooklyn... there's no food prepared in NOLA can't find
better in Brooklyn... in fact that goes for any food prepared anywhere
on the planet.

Sheldon

modom said:

From today's Dallas Morning News:

"Somebody send me a freakin' po'boy. Fat chance in Dallas. They
don't even have French bread out here..." --Message from an evacuee
posted on a nola.com bulletin board.

Surely they have it _somewhere_ in Dallas?

Quoted message said:

" I got red beans and rice here in PA, and it was dry, flavorless
baked beans and Minute Rice with a cut-in-half hot dog on the side. I
really almost cried." -- Reply from another evacuee.

I can only imagine the food experiences and disappointments of the
NOLA evacuees who landed in places like Emory, TX. I mean for one,
it's dry. Then there's the issue of seafood: Mrs Paul's or catfish or
Star Kist or bait.

It's not just New Orleans food. Alleged "New York pizza" in the Twin
Cities bears only slightly more resemblance to the real thing than
Wonder Bagels bear to real bagels. Same for "East Coast" pizza. "East
Coast" coffee bears _less_ resemblance to anything served on the East
Coast.

Then there's Texas Style Hawaiian Bread -- which, of course, is baked
in Chicago. And "Russian pumpernickel" which is light and fluffy.

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On Sun, 18 Sep 2005 21:05:29 -0500, "Dan Goodman" <[email hidden]>

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modom said:

From today's Dallas Morning News:

"Somebody send me a freakin' po'boy. Fat chance in Dallas. They
don't even have French bread out here..." --Message from an evacuee
posted on a nola.com bulletin board.

Surely they have it _somewhere_ in Dallas?

They do. He's new in town and most likely living off charitably
proffered slop.

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

" I got red beans and rice here in PA, and it was dry, flavorless
baked beans and Minute Rice with a cut-in-half hot dog on the side. I
really almost cried." -- Reply from another evacuee.

I can only imagine the food experiences and disappointments of the
NOLA evacuees who landed in places like Emory, TX. I mean for one,
it's dry. Then there's the issue of seafood: Mrs Paul's or catfish or
Star Kist or bait.

It's not just New Orleans food. Alleged "New York pizza" in the Twin
Cities bears only slightly more resemblance to the real thing than
Wonder Bagels bear to real bagels. Same for "East Coast" pizza. "East
Coast" coffee bears _less_ resemblance to anything served on the East
Coast.

Then there's Texas Style Hawaiian Bread -- which, of course, is baked
in Chicago. And "Russian pumpernickel" which is light and fluffy.

True. But imagine the culture shock of growing up in the Big Easy
only to find yourself on the very buckle of the Bible belt. A guy
with a po'boy jones in Emory can't even get a sandwich at a Subway
because there's no such thing in Emory, TX. Hell, they barely have
paved roads.

modom

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"D.A.Martinich" <[email hidden]> wrote in message

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You ever try cooking in a kitchen with 6 feet of water in it?

You mean the people evacuated to other flooded places?

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Now, Nancy... The folks I know who evacuated left with only two days
worth of clothing. They didn't bring their kitchens and pantries with
them.

Oh, no, you misunderstood what I was saying. Without belaboring
it, I was pointing out that they aren't in flooded kitchens, being
evacuees. Of course I wasn't saying, just whip up a pot of food.

nancy

On Sun 18 Sep 2005 02:19:43p, modom wrote in rec.food.cooking:

Quoted message said:

From today's Dallas Morning News:

"Somebody send me a freakin' po'boy. Fat chance in Dallas. They
don't even have French bread out here..." --Message from an evacuee
posted on a nola.com bulletin board.

" I got red beans and rice here in PA, and it was dry, flavorless
baked beans and Minute Rice with a cut-in-half hot dog on the side. I
really almost cried." -- Reply from another evacuee.

I can only imagine the food experiences and disappointments of the
NOLA evacuees who landed in places like Emory, TX. I mean for one,
it's dry. Then there's the issue of seafood: Mrs Paul's or catfish or
Star Kist or bait.

modom

I'm sure every displaced New Orleans person misses the food they ate back
home, but they can hardly expect to find New Orleans cuisine duplicated
'round the country. If they were smart they'd be trying the specialties of
the area they're in instead of having to put up with 2nd or 3rd rate
renditions of their old favorites.

--
Wayne Boatwright *¿*
____________________________________________

Okay, okay, I take it back! UnScrew you!

On Sun 18 Sep 2005 06:51:07p, modom wrote in rec.food.cooking:

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Bob Myers said:

"Michael Pearce" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Quoted message said:

As another New Orleans evacuee I'd do just about anything for a good

bowl

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of gumbo or an oyster Po-Boy. I'm in Savannah which isn't bad food-

wise,

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but I miss the food from back home. Maybe even more than the food, I

miss

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

the people and the neighborhood joints.

One possible positive coming out of the Katrina diaspora - and I realize
there aren't a lot, but we have to take 'em when and where we can -
is that perhaps a number of those who have left New Orleans and
won't be returning will bring their food traditions out to the rest of

us.

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I wouldn't be at all surprised to see an increase in the number of
Cajun, etc., restaurants across the rest of the country.

I wish you the best in getting through this and recovering; if
I thought New Orleans was truly gone forever, I'd be missing the
neighborhoods and the people a lot myself. But I am looking
forward to getting back there some time soon, and enjoying
it all again.

Bob M.

There was a letter in the Dallas paper this morning from a Red Cross
volunteer who felt the need to answer some of the classist. racist
comments she'd heard from some of the less charitable Dallasites she's
spoken with. Her opinion was much in agreement with yours about the
benefits to our food culture of having so many inspired and talented
Creole cooks spread out across Texas and the rest of America.

modom

We have but one or two restaurants here in Phoenix that specialize in Cajun
food. I would certainly welcome more, and certainly more authentic.

--
Wayne Boatwright *¿*
____________________________________________

Okay, okay, I take it back! UnScrew you!

In article <[email hidden]>, Wayne Boatwright
<[email hidden]> wrote:
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I'm sure every displaced New Orleans person misses the food they ate
back home, but they can hardly expect to find New Orleans cuisine
duplicated 'round the country. If they were smart they'd be trying
the specialties of the area they're in instead of having to put up
with 2nd or 3rd rate renditions of their old favorites.

Sure, but when you've been uprooted, food like you ate at home can be a
comfort. Soothing. Let them try the local specialties later -- and
it's a shame the comfort food isn't very comforting. :-[
--
-Barb, <http://www.jamlady.eboard.com> Sam I Am! updated 9-12-05

"Bob Myers" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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One possible positive coming out of the Katrina diaspora - and I realize
there aren't a lot, but we have to take 'em when and where we can -
is that perhaps a number of those who have left New Orleans and
won't be returning will bring their food traditions out to the rest of us.

As far as I'm concerned that (people not returning) is the worst thing that
could possibly happen to New Orleans. I know not everyone will come back,
but if the city has a chance to be at least as good as it has been in the
past we need people to come home.

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I wish you the best in getting through this and recovering; if
I thought New Orleans was truly gone forever, I'd be missing the
neighborhoods and the people a lot myself. But I am looking
forward to getting back there some time soon, and enjoying
it all again.

What New Orleans will need is for people to come back both to live and
visit. New Orleans will never be the same place is was a month ago, but you
never know it might be better.

-Mike

"notbob" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Michael Pearce said:

As another New Orleans evacuee I'd do just about anything for a good bowl
of
gumbo or an oyster Po-Boy.

Doesn't anyone from NOLA know how to cook!?

I think some of them do. I can make a decent gumbo. If you could let me know
where I could find good andouille in Savanah I'd really appreciate it.

Thanks,
-Mike

"modom" wrote in message news:[email hidden]...

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Now, Nancy... The folks I know who evacuated left with only two days
worth of clothing. They didn't bring their kitchens and pantries with
them.

That's me. As of a week ago I got an apartment in Savannah and am working
with minimal kitchen stuff.

-Mike