I've slagged on Emeril before, but when you're doing good, you get props.
Emeril Lagasse, the world-renowned New Orleans chef and restaurateur, recently announced that he is donating $500,000 for the construction of a 2,700-square-foot culinary learning center in Café Reconcile, the Central City eatery where at-risk youth learn how to work in a restaurant and gain invaluable life skills. The donation is part of $2.4 capital expansion of Café Reconcile that will enable the nonprofit to offer more programs and expand programming.
Yeah You Right!!!
A nice and significant contribution to one of the best programs in the City.
Posted by: BanzaiBill | 14 November 2007 at 07:19 AM
Great! Now I can quit feeling guilty about having a set of Emeril pans. (They are good pans, though, I got them for Christmas a year or two ago).
Posted by: saintseester | 14 November 2007 at 09:20 AM
Well, seester, don't feel guilty about that. Feel guilty that they're made in China. ;^)
Posted by: ashley | 14 November 2007 at 10:20 AM
was, unfourtnately, the truth. I don't live anhyewre near NOLA, but I DO live in another area that experienced severe flooding a couple years back (albeit not nearly as bad as the devestation Katrina caused!) .and sadly, the government has been dragging its feet here, too.There were areas that, last year, a year after the flooding, still looked pretty much the same as they did immeditely after the flooding.
Posted by: Ankit | 06 May 2012 at 09:10 AM
I did this or I did that . It is always We did this , etc or he gives creidt to the people he brought together. He is a marvelous and humble person that I hope one day is recognized, but, again, he is not looking for it and I truly admire him for that, his efforts and his long term commitment.
Posted by: Peggy | 07 May 2012 at 01:09 AM
I didn't reside in NOLA prpoer, but on the outer fringes of Metro New Orleans. We moved out four years before Katrina moved in... and destroyed the vital city I knew and loved. I've been back five times, way less than Geo and Laura, and it breaks my heart. Bush carries a lot of blame, but it isn't his alone. The city should have been much better prepared for something that had to happen at some point in time. It's a lazy government down there, on both sides of the political fence. They don't call it 'The Big Easy' for nothing. I don't care who happened to be president, it would have been a disaster at half the toll. But it does seem that our response to a tsunami on the other side of the world is quicker to our own wounds. That's inexcusible.
Posted by: Amyanne | 08 May 2012 at 06:18 PM