Feeding the Spirit of New Orleans

The Documentary Podcast

BBC

Documentary, Society & Culture

4.3 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 20 June 2008

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Sheila Dillon reports on the work of restaurateurs, farmers, fishermen and activists to restore the culinary heritage of a devastated city.

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0:00.0	Thank you for downloading from the BBC.
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0:12.0	When a natural disaster hits like the devastating cyclone in
0:16.0	Burma last month, vast areas of food production can be wiped out.
0:20.0	In today's documentary, Sheila Dylan visits the American City of New Orleans
0:24.0	to meet the people who've been working to restore the city's food culture
0:28.0	after it was destroyed by Hurricane Katrina in August 2005.
0:32.0	Feeding the spirit of New Orleans is an inspiring story
0:36.0	about the importance of food to the heritage of a city and to the people who live in it.
0:48.0	We laugh and we cry every day and for those of us who are here
0:52.0	we're just desperately trying to make things add up.
0:56.0	The great thing about New Orleans is it's never added up.
0:58.0	It's insane that they settled the city here.
1:00.0	It's never made sense.
1:02.0	Jazz doesn't make sense.
1:04.0	It's all improv.
1:06.0	And we are at the height of our game of improvisation.
1:10.0	We see it in food and thank heavens the sense of place is so strong
1:14.0	because we are highly motivated.
1:16.0	We're a very very old food culture here.
1:28.0	We have been eating very fine, very beautiful, very carefully prepared food here in New Orleans
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