The New Orleans Gambit covers eGullet

[Mayhaw Man]

The Gambit has an article this week on internet food sites in New Orleans and elsewhere. eGullet is nicely covered in the article by Todd Price.

[Jason Perlow]

Dammit Brooks, how many times do we have to tell you to put yourself together before you meet with media people? You look like you just walked out of the Quarter at 4AM.

[phifly04]

The Gambit has an article this week on  internet food sites in New Orleans and elsewhere. eGullet is nicely covered in the article by Todd Price.

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Good Article and we certainly appreciate your efforts as forum host and mod,you do look a lil rough there Brooks

Dave s

[Mayhaw Man]

Dammit Brooks, how many times do we have to tell you to put yourself together before you meet with media people? You look like you just walked out of the Quarter at 4AM.

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It is important to look like a native. Semi sober, bad hair, expensive jacket.

I don't live in L.A. I live in LA. (copyright BH-2004)

[bloviatrix]

Dammit Brooks, how many times do we have to tell you to put yourself together before you meet with media people? You look like you just walked out of the Quarter at 4AM.

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But Jason, that would mean he would have to take time away from eG.

[Dave the Cook]

It is important to  look like a native. Semi sober, bad hair, expensive jacket.

I don't live in L.A. I live in LA.  (copyright BH-2004)

Every A-Frame had your number on the wall

You must have had it all

You'd go to LA on a dare

And you'd go it alone

Could you live forever?

Could you see the day?

Could you feel your whole world fall apart and fade away?

(- Donald Fagen)

Nice piece, Brooks (and I don't mean the hair).

[ladyyoung98]

great article brooks...even if your hair does look like you just woke up.....

[lovebenton0]

Damn, Brooks! I was just thinking you clean up pretty good! They could have gotten hold of your old avatar pic!

"If I had known how much of my time and effort eGullet was going to suck up, I would have deleted the link and never gone back," says Brooks Hamaker, who moderates the boards dedicated to Louisiana, beer and Southern food culture. "The place really draws you in."

Nice article -- and we're lucky you're not psychic too!

[Pan]

Thanks for the link. That was fun! And I think Brooks looks good in that picture, so there!

[TAPrice]

Glad everybody liked the article.

The background of the photo looks suspiciously like the Gambit offices, so I'm assuming that the editor convinced you to come out to their mid-city location.

[Mayhaw Man]

The worst part was that all you guys have in your office are Macs. Not a proper pc in the place. And I was hoping to be able to pose with a giant bag of Cheetos and a bunch of empty cans of Mountain Dew, just like any real geek. Although in my case, I would have been more accurately posed with a giant cuppa Community Dark Roast and an oyster po boy.

Tom Fitzmorris seems to be catching a fair amount of crap for dumping on the anonymous users that frequent his website. I thought his sentiment was pretty much spot on, although a bit on the hard side towards his users, considering how many anonymous users that he has. I also notice that there is no reference to it, that I can find, (and there was on Sunday night-posted by an anonymous user, of course) on his website.

The other guys in the article seem pretty thrilled, judging by that amount of traffic that it has generated on their sites.

[UptownKevin]

The worst part was that all you guys have in your office are Macs. Not a proper pc in the place.   

The other guys in the article seem pretty thrilled, judging by that amount of traffic that it has generated on their sites.

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HA! You're not gonna believe this, but the first thing I noticed in that picture was that you were using a Mac!

I have received a little traffic from the article. I'm surprised at how many hits that have come directly from the "internet" version of the article. Anyway, I thought it was a great article. To be fair, I did give Todd a hard time on the TF board about just moving into the area. I just haven't seen him in person yet to rag on him about it.

Kevin

Notes from a New Orleans Foodie

[TAPrice]

Hey, what's wrong with Macs? As a freelancer, though, I've got nothing to do with the technology used at the Gambit office.

And Kevin, I'm deeply hurt by your abuse. When we finally meet in person I'm going to demand that you buy me a beer. [i would add one of these smilies if I could figure out how to do it in the "fast reply" box.]

[mrsadm]

Very nice article, I enjoyed reading it. I clicked through to Chowhound as I'd never been there before. Interestingly, they distinguish between "chowhounds" and dislike "foodies". Hmmmm..... but that's probably another topic for another thread....