#orleans

Creole is New Orleans city food. Communities were created by the people who wanted to stay and not go back to Spain or France. ↗

— Paul Prudhomme

#by the people #city #communities #created #creole

In '71 or '72 I returned to New Orleans and stayed there. I started cooking Louisiana food. Of all the things I had cooked, it was the best-and it was my heritage. ↗

— Paul Prudhomme

#cooking #food #had #heritage #i

We closed the restaurant in New Orleans and brought the entire staff to San Francisco. But we had to go home. ↗

— Paul Prudhomme

#closed #entire #francisco #go #go home

The people who couldn't get out of New Orleans to escape the storm were predominantly Black. ↗

— Charles Rangel

#escape #get #new #new orleans #orleans

We owe it to the flood victims of New Orleans to give them truthful answers as to why this event took place and to assure our citizens that tragedies like this will never happen again. ↗

— Charles Rangel

#answers #assure #citizens #event #flood

Four months after we finished shooting, I'd been in New Orleans shooting another movie and my agent and I were having a bite to eat - actually in London - and he's sitting there and goes, 'Wow, I just can't believe how ripped you are.' ↗

— Ryan Reynolds

#after #agent #another #been #believe

I love New Orleans physically. I love the trees and the balmy air and the beautiful days. I have a beautiful house here. ↗

— Anne Rice

#beautiful #days #here #house #i

There's a great deal of disturbance in this country and how black feel about what happened in Katrina, and, you know, many of the comics, many of performers are in Las Vegas and New Orleans trying to raise money for what happened there. ↗

— Michael Richards

#black #comics #country #deal #disturbance

These past years, as we have been recovering and given our city a rebirth, we have been encouraged by our faith, knowledge, and steadfast belief that we will pull through. There will be challenges and setbacks, as there have already been, but we will continue, and we the citizens of New Orleans will prevail in bringing our city back. ↗

— Cedric Richmond

#back #been #belief #bringing #challenges

Watching the scenes out of New Orleans, if you turn down the sound it could be the Sudan or any Third World country. But it's not. it's the United States of America. ↗

— Al Roker

#any #could #country #down #new