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Herbsaint in New Orleans – Day 3

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Chef Donald Link presides over a fine dining collection in New Orleans including Herbsaint, our choice for Saturday night and the restaurant that won him Best Chef South from the James Beard Organization. Maybe it is culinary fatigue, but our experience here was less than what we expected. The food was very good and the atmosphere lively, more like a bistro/bar than a formal environment. I guess that makes sense as the name is derived from a famous New Orleans based anise flavored liquor introduced after the end of Prohibition as absinthe, which was outlawed. The federal authorities challenged this […] Read more »

New Orleans – Day 3

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You always hope to meet interesting characters on the road.  We shared breakfast at the Cobb Mill B&B this morning with a group including Bud Ellis who created another career for himself after retirement building carousel animals in his workshop outside Chattanooga – and teaching others how to do so as well. His business is called Horsin Around Carving School. He’s been responsible for the revival or creation of two carousels in Chattanooga. After a very enjoyable breakfast we hit the road by 9 and headed south through the rest of Alabama, passing through Tuscaloosa, the home of the University of […] Read more »