GNC Dish in New Orleans PART II: New Orleans Cooking Experience, Lower 9th Ward, Brad Pitt Homes

Make it a point to visit New Orleans! If you didn't get a chance to READ PART I of the New Orleans post, CLICK HERE to get up to speed. Here are a some highlights from Part II of the trip.

While in NO I took a half day cooking class with chef Janice "Boo" Macomber. The great thing about this class is that students do more eating than cooking :). We made Roux from scratch, BBQ Shrimp, Dirty Rice Jambalaya and more. In addition to feasting on the three course meal with dessert, you will also tour the property which is also a bed and breakfast. While touring the property, the hostess tells the fascinating history of New Orleans, Creole culture I highly recommend taking this class if you go to New Orleans.

Here Boo talks about her favorite fish while cooking the first course BBQ shrimp. Culinary note: BBQ shrimp has nothing to do with BBQ.

Here's a pic of the BBQ Shrimp, Chicken Sausage Gumbo and Boo's Dirty Rice Jumbalaya w/ground beef and smoked sausage and bananas foster fired up with some rum.

And now time for dessert.

Boo makes some Banana Foster

...Then she FIRES up da Banana Foster

LOWER 9th WARD TOUR with Lower 9th Ward Neighborhood Council President, Vera McFadden and actor Brad Pitt's homes through his Make It Right Foundation

Start of tour..

....Trees all over the place

Driving past what used to be Vera's mother home which had to be demolished after Katrina

Up close at the levee. The levee is only a few feet away from the Lower 9th neighborhood.

Symbolic Art in the Lower 9th

Actor Brad Pitt's foundation, Make It Right, is building 150 homes in the Lower 9th Ward
Here are a few of them.

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