No Reservations NOLA

Two posts in one day? It can't be! I can hardly post every other day.

My normal television routine includes watching Cash Cab on the Discovery Channel while I eat and/or make dinner (when I happen to be home for dinner, of course). And as all stations do, DC was advertising one of its other shows during a commercial break -- Anthony Bourdain's No Reservations, which is actually on the Travel Channel. I was aware of Bourdain's presence in the culinary world thanks to his appearances on Top Chef, and I like him. In this show, he goes to crazy places to try their food, and also to familiar places to try some not-so-ordinary food.

Anyway, the commercial listed a bunch of the places that will be featured in upcoming episodes, and New Orleans was one of them. This of course piqued my interest in/obsession with all things NOLA. I wanted to find out when the episode will air (Feb. 4 at 10 p.m., by the way) and stumbled across this blog entry from one of the producers of the show.

It turns out that producer Jared Andrukanis was living in New Orleans before Katrina and had a hurricane party rather than evacuate, and he ended up spending a good deal of time on a roof in the storm's aftermath.

I'm really excited to watch the show. Even though I only spent a week there, I have a connection to the city, and I'm trying to revel in that as much as possible. Silly as it sounds, i study the Lincoln commercial with Harry Connick Jr. to look for streets we drove by or places we visited.

An hour-long show is going to be an extreme version of that.