Food

Linnea Ashley on May 13th, 2007

i’m not sure i’ve ever really been sad to say goodbye to a place. i always have people i’m going to miss…but usually i can substitute one place for another and never think twice. sure i missed mexican food when i left texas…but then i traded that in for new orleans cuisine so it wasn’t […]

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Linnea Ashley on April 1st, 2007

yesterday i ventured out to chalmette for social reasons. usually i drive through the still devastated area on my way to meraux where a mobile clinic provides medical services. but not saturday. saturday i stopped in the parking lot of a gutted out store for the crawfish festival. it was the first time it has […]

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Linnea Ashley on March 15th, 2007

silly me, i forgot i’m brown. tonight a friend and i went out to eat…or rather, that was the plan. a place was recommended to us and so we arrived eagerly anticipating the good food we’d heard about. we were met with a wait…understandable, it is the warehouse district down by the civic center. 15 […]

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Linnea Ashley on November 26th, 2006

when  ordered the fresh fish sandwhich from the little hole in the wall i couldn’t mask my excitement. i could have had a burger…but why? instead i had fish from the neighboring waters on a toasted bun. what i wasn’t prepared for was the beetroot that soaked my bread and fish read.   it still […]

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Linnea Ashley on September 1st, 2006

the other day i got the chance to see a kangaroo…tonight i had the opporuntity to eat one! groan, grimmace or roll your eyes…but roo is delicious. i ate at a place called the red ochre grill…rated the best restaurant in australia i think…whatever it is…it is great. it was grilled with some kind of […]

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Linnea Ashley on August 29th, 2006

today was my leisturely day. i calle dmyself sleeping in…but with all my healthy living i woke up at 8:15…or rather i finally got out of bed at 8:15…i’d been awake longer than that. my plan was to just do beach or pool time…be a solar panel until late afternoon when i had one activity […]

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