“You have to want more for the other person than you want for yourself,” says Barbara Menendez. The former member of local ’80s band the Cold pours me a cup of coffee in her kitchen around the corner from the Prytania Theater. She doesn’t ask if I take cream or sugar, only “How much do [...]
The poem, yes. We call it “Getting Ready Spaghetti.” The name of the poem is “Oh, it’s Fun to Play the Drums,” but the best part of playing the drums is eating spaghetti. Oh, it’s fun to play the drums. Getting ready, eating spaghetti. Going to the gig, feeling like a pig. Oh, it’s fun [...]
“Let me show you my pot. I fill this one. Magnetic Ear will play every Sunday in January at the Allways Lounge, and the main selling point is free food at 8 and then we play at 8:30. When we did Live at the Saturn Bar, I wanted to make a live record, and to [...]
Growing up where fresh fruit meant the occasional brown banana or “sour green apple he found on the ground,” Art Blakey craved freshness in the kitchen as well as on stage when his need for heroin didn’t override everything else. Sandy Warren, or “Egghead,” Blakey’s partner in love, has traced an honest portrait of a [...]
I didn’t cook much when I lived in Sweden. I was 18 when I moved here, and that was basically when I started my own home. We planted our lemon tree five years ago. I grew up on a farm so I love plants. I didn’t know this before I moved here; I love being [...]
“When I was a kid, I did never go outside. Always stayed inside, and my grandmother used to cook. I helped her cut up the seasoning. Then when my grandmother died, I liked to stay home and watch my mom cook. I just wasn’t interested in being outside. I don’t go nowhere now, you know, [...]
Three Muses 536 Frenchmen St. (504) 298-8746 How did you become a regular here so quickly? I was out of town when it opened in August, so my first night in town I came and checked it out. I love it. Three Muses is owned and operated by fellow musicians so they treat us well, [...]
“My mom and dad both came from Cranston, Rhode Island, outside of Providence. Lots of Italian, Portuguese and Irish Catholic, which is what we are. The meat loafs and the stews and the roasts, that’s all Irish. Anything you can put a potato in. The roast was always smaller than all the potatoes. My mom [...]
“We had a disagreement. We had a difference of views because when I was a kid, my grandmother used to make a dish she called crab stew, but it wasn’t written down. I have no idea how you make that. And in Lafayette, there was this [cookbook] that came out, called Talk About Good. One [...]
“You know, we have a law in Louisiana. If you live here and you can’t cook, we make you move. That’s just written law. The way I learned how to cook was from everybody. I learned things from the Jewish lady around the corner, the Irish lady down the street, the Italian lady in the [...]
