Food

By Ian McNulty

New Orleans, LA – For the past four years, New Orleans has been a living case study for just how much local restaurants can mean to a community. That's because, thanks to Katrina, the city's entire restaurant industry came to a screeching, violent halt in late August 2005. And for a long time, there was the open question of which restaurants would come back, how they would do it and what they would be like afterward.

New Orleans, LA – Purchasing fresh cut flowers at the Farmers Market
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New Orleans, LA – On this week's Farmers Market Minute, we talk about the Sankofa Market

By Ian McNulty

New Orleans, LA – Even before Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans folks of a certain generation could tell tales of a restaurant scene in the lakefront's West End area that was hard for younger people to imagine.

Where some of us saw a marina, a parking lot and just a handful of seafood joints, they remembered restaurant after restaurant, many of them built on stilts over Lake Pontchartrain.

New Orelans, LA –
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