Recently I’ve started to rethink salad. What is it that makes a great salad?  The lettuce?  Other vegetables?  Nope.  For me, it’s the little things, the accents if you will.  A properly balanced dressing plus one or two key, strong flavours is what makes it for me.   Lettuce with...

Without question, New Orleans has more great food, fun and funk per capita than most of the rest of the planet.   Gumbo, The Saints, The Meters?  Need I say more? Check out this lesser known band, The Gaturs, who did some local funkin’ around in the Big Easy back in the early 1970s....

My four year old daughter Alexandra has been saying for as long as she could put a sentence together that she doesn’t like “spicy”. And yet, that doesn’t stop her from burying a hot dog in mustard, loading up her toast with cinnamon sugar, asking for extra...

The February blahs. Everybody has them.  Some worse than others.  Some solve the February blahs with a trip to a sunny locale, while others go through five bottles of expensive 4 Copas tequila in February, 2009 *cough*. This year, the blahs are not so bad with the Olympics in Vancouver giving...

There’s something really special about a band that truly has its own sound.  Sly and the Family Stone had it, James Brown had it, Parliament-Funkadelic had it and so did The Meters. The Meters, based in New Orleans, started pumping out the funk in 1969 with their self-titled debut....