E&P: Bush Lunches at Baquet Family New Orleans Eatery: "If you don't get New Orleans straight..."

[DeepModem Mom]

Editor&Publisher: President Bush Lunches at Baquet Family Eatery in New Orleans
By E&P Staff
Published: March 02

NEW YORK Who says President Bush doesn't like the press? Launching a whirlwind trip to New Orleans on Thursday, he lunched at the local eatery run by the family of Dean Baquet, the newly named New York Times bureau chief in Washington and Terry Baquet, a top editor at the Times-Picayune. (NOTE: Dean Baquet was recently fired by the Tribune Company as editor of the Los Angeles Times for his refusal to implement demands for cost cuts.)

Their brother, Wayne Baquet, runs the creole eatery, Li'l Dizzy's Cafe. Another brother, Rudy, helps out. It's the family's only restaurant, but the 12th in a long line.

"If you don't get New Orleans straight, the United States will never be the same," said Wayne Baquet, in an AP account. His restaurant was flooded and looted during Katrina.

Baquet said he worried the nation no longer was paying attention to New Orleans. "Everybody ought to be on the bandwagon trying to get New Orleans back," he said. "Everybody."

After landing at the airport, the presidential motorcade sped to the city's Treme neighborhood and Lil' Dizzy's , "where he and a host of local dignitaries lunched on Trout Baquet, shrimp grillades with grits and the Seventh Ward Pork Chop," according to the Times-Picayune....

http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003552997

[hippiechick]

1. "Lunched at a family eatery" ??

Caligula actually ate food over-the-counter that us plebes eat, without a taste tester? :wow:

[ixion]

6. don't let the spin fool you... the security was crazy tight, I would imagine

as it always is whenever Chimpenfuherer ventures out from behind his fortified 'ranch'.

[mcscajun]

2. And for dessert "Ninth Ward Invisibility Meringue"

In a light rightwing custard sauce.

It's called "Memory of Floating Island"

[rodeodance]

8. cute

[DeepModem Mom]

13. Very good! nt

[grasswire]

3. a "family eatery"??

Owned by two top newspaper editors and their brother?

In my mind, a "family eatery" is something a bit different.

[DeepModem Mom]

5. I believe the family owned and operated this "eatery" long before the Baquet sons...

became successful and prominent journalists.

[Fredda Weinberg]

10. From the article ...

"Before the future editors ever set foot in a newsroom, Dean and Terry were raised on life behind the grill, in the kitchen, and all too often at the handle of a mop," Strupp wrote.

[struggle4progress]

11. Lil Dizzies opened in early 2005

Wednesday, March 23, 2005
... we did find Lil Dizzy's Cafe on the corner of North Robertson and Esplanade Avenue ... It had only been open three weeks ...
http://www.loungewalrus.co.uk/archive/2005_03_01_archive.htm

[DeepModem Mom]

12. I meant to say that the family was in the "eatery" business long before...

the sons grew up. Thanks for this info!

[Olney Blue]

4. "presidential motorcade sped"

That says it all......

[MasonJar]

7. Bush just allow the citizens to have their money to rebuild and quit

bothering them with your unseemly presence...how much torture can one city take?

[MGKrebs]

9. Damn! Where's a pretzel when you need one.

[aquart]

14. Lunch doesn't atone.

The blood will drip from his hands forever for New Orleans alone.

They need to disinfect everything he touched.

[CoffeeCat]

15. ...and for dessert....

..."heckuvajob" Brownies.

[DeepModem Mom]

16. VERY CLEVER! nt