Because that's what most tourists come to New Orleans for - drinking grenades and hurricanes on Bourbon Street until they puke on their shoes (or in a taxi) and pass out on the urine-soaked sidewalk (as a local once pointed out to me -those are not rain puddles in the French Quarter). So where will he visit while filming The Layover, his Travel Channel show that caters to tourists rather than adventurers?Īs Tony touches down at Louis Armstrong Airport, he hops a cab (about $30 to the French Quarter) and notes the sign that states they'll be a $150 cleanup fee for vomiting. Bourdain, after all, is a writer and consultant for HBO's Treme, set in New Orleans, and has done a fair share of shows about the Crescent City. But I do picture New Orleans as his mistress. I don't ever picture him living there, taking it easy, rolling with the punches, enjoying the humidity and the slow Southern pace. I'm not sure Anthony Bourdain is in love with New Orleans. Once you fall in love with her, you fall hard and there's no turning back. New Orleans is less city and more living entity. It's also a city that considers eating, drinking, and music necessary to life. It's a city that leases burial vaults to the dead for a year and a day (after that a corpse in a NOLA cemetery is pushed to the back to make room for another, fresher body) and follows Napoleonic Code in its legal system. It's no secret that New Orleans exists in its own time and space.
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