Originally Posted by
exbayern
I feel the same way about the coffee from Cafe du Monde; it really can only be eaten with those delicious and always messy beignets.
When you first posted about them, I had a flashback to a very sticky spring day, sitting with friends, watching the first signs of life returning to make the French Quarter somewhat 'normal'. For months after Katrina MSY was a ghost town, then slowly populated by military, then contractors and aid workers, and finally the first few tentative visitors came back. It was easy to find a table that Sunday morning, but it was a good memory of things starting to improve.
Thanks for that post. Mentally, I was there with you.
Exbay;
Thanks for the tip. I'm pretty healthy and pretty lean. As an endurance athlete, I actually have to be careful not to get too gaunt. But I know just being lean does not mean you are healthy. Most of the time, I eat very healthy. Once in a while, I have a "Cheat Day"