Comments | infrogmation: Fair Grinds back, La Spiga going, Ofelia passing through

infrogmation

Fair Grinds back, La Spiga going, Ofelia passing through

Jun 08, 2007 14:21

I'm posting from Fair Grinds Coffee House. Which has been open 1 week. Yay! Back in October of 2005, I incorrectly guessed they were likely be the first place back open back from Claiborne Avenue -- they're on a part of Esplanade Ridge that only flooded less than knee deep, and repairs were already under way in October '05, but what with the too ( Read more... )

bread, food, music, new orleans

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ancientscripts June 8 2007, 23:15:55 UTC

Artisan bread and pastry are so much better than anything supermarkets can offer. Let's hope the recipes from La Spiga get passed to another generation.

So what exactly is a "fazola"? It sounds like it'd kill you early, but what's in it?

infrogmation June 8 2007, 23:30:08 UTC

Sorry I wasn't as clear as I intended. I meant I was tempted on my last chance to get anything at La Spiga to do like Irving Fazola, and order "one of everything, except the soup".

BTW, Irving Fazola's birth name was "Irving Prestopnik". From his childhood skill at solfege singing he got the nickname from "Do Re Mi FA SO LA"... For some reason, nicknames often stick in New Orleans, and lots of his fellow musicians didn't know that his given name wasn't Fazola.

ancientscripts June 9 2007, 04:51:34 UTC

I actually think it's pretty cool that musicians have nicknames, something that represents them more than their name.

babaluma June 10 2007, 16:30:24 UTC

Speaking of hot Weimar music, I ran into Rainer Lotz at ARSC. He's selling his collection. I'd really like to buy it for the library but we don't have the money and I don't think any other library does either. It's too bad, because you could never assemble another collection like his today.