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Scientists Examine Giant Squid

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Conference eating: from sucky to sublime

How strange it was to be in a food mecca like New Orleans, choking down watery egg product and undercooked chicken sausage in a conference room with no windows. That was really the only bad meal I had, though…well, except for the undercooked steamed chicken breasts…But I managed to eat well anyway. Anyone who knows [...]

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After the flood

JoAnn Clevenger has owned Upperline restaurant in New Orleans for 25 years, serving classic New Orleans “food with an adventure.” At the IACP conference in New Orleans last week, as part of a moving panel discussion moderated by Pableaux Johnson, the warm and elegant Ms. Clevenger spoke with great emotion on not being able to [...]

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Exhilarating, Exciting, Exhausting: the IACP conference in New Orleans

Warning: this post contains shameless namedropping.
I’ve barely dusted the beignet sugar off my sunglasses and have had barely a minute to breathe since I flew home yesterday, but I wanted to share some thoughts on the conference before I forget it all. House filth and work projects (many more since the conference) will have to [...]

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Here at last!

I’ve been looking forward to this for so long and feel so blessed and glad to be here in New Orleans at the IACP conference. I’m all settled in and fried from flying, but all fired up to start tomorrow with some meetings with an agent and magazine publishers. And of course all my fellow [...]

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And we’re off…

Tomorrow I’m leaving for New Orleans for the annual conference of the International Association of Culinary Professionals. I’m beyond excited; it’s been eight years since the last time I went to one, and New Orleans is just an exciting, vibrant place to visit, no matter how you slice it. I’ve heard downtown and the French [...]

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