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A culinary icon reflects the struggle to rebuild a city
By Howard Witt
Tribune senior correspondent
October 16, 2005
NEW ORLEANS — The maitre d’ is dead.
He perished at home, along with his son, sometime after the levees broke and the floodwaters rushed in and his tiny house in northern New Orleans filled to the ceiling with fetid water.
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Get out of your shelters and get back to work!
We are planning on starting the cleanup on November 2nd and re-open asap after that. The cleanup should only take a couple of days. Please contact Neil on his cell phone @ 5040-319-4369 or Lee on his cell @
504-250-4835 to let us know what [...]

After careful consideration Eman and I have decided to postpone the opening of the restaurant until the city has recovered to a degree that we feel we will provide us with a clientelle. Our best guess at this point is that by early November life may be closer to normal and we should be able [...]

In New Orleans, Cooks Are Stirring
By KIM SEVERSON
Published: September 21, 2005
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PEOPLE here just have to cook. They can’t help themselves. That’s why on Monday Kathleen Horn – Kappa to most people – laid a few pounds of bacon on the grill of her diner, Slim Goody’s, and set about making chicken [...]

Here is the latest update from Orleans.
Key points….No water. Get a tetnus shot. Power to uptown soon. Bring your own gas.
# FEMA RECOVERY CTR. (OPEN 9 A.M. TO 7 P.M. DAILY) Landry High School, Whitney Ave. & LaMarque St., Algiers
# Storm victims must register at (800) 621-FEMA before visiting site
POWER:
# Power restored [...]