Try the Big Easy...New Orleans...N'awlins!
Down by the Mississippi River, in the French Quarter, is a simple looking restaurant named La Monde. Beignets are small square, no holes, doughnuts that have been dusted, while HOT, with powdered sugar. Your order is always served HOT from the fryer and in a little batch....with HOT coffee.
One of my neat adventures was to visit the Big Easy for a week, once, and I fell in like with the city, way before that hurricane. Adventures included staying in an old hotel in the French Quarter...going out early to explore and take slides of a lone cleaning man washing down the old streets before everyone else wakes up...going down the Missis'p on a steamer paddeboard...exporing the bayous and plantation homes...riding streetcars every day...going to the Audubon Zoo...Garden District...old cemeteries...and an old dusty, narrow shop that sold billions of voodoo stuff. And made sure to go out late (around midnight) to enjoy and listen to "The New Orleans Preservation Band", composed of musicians who come together AFTER playing at clubs. One, the piano player on an old-fashioned upright piano, was fascinating, with white and black keys plunked by an eightysomething charmer of a lady!
One of my seven collegians in The Serpentine Bond! is from New Orleans, and you'll meet her in the novel...the readers across the world, when it is published, will get to know someone who is special, like the other six, with a neat name---RAIN!
"Laissez le Bon temp rouler"---"Let the good times roll!"
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Cafe du Monde - New Orleans
YES, Robert! That means you've exxperienced this very old cafe along the Mississip'. During the great flood a handful of years back, the only business that remained open along the river was Cafe du Monde!!!...
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