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First Aired - 09/22/2010 07:00PM
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This week on Burning Down the House Curtis and friends speak to Wayne Curtis, journalist and resident of New Orleans ("the Caribbean's northernmost city, rather than the USA's southernmost city"), about post-Katrina development and rebuilding the 9th Ward and beyond. Wayne Curtis brings up a number of issues not touched upon in major media coverage of the disaster, including the fact that Rita, not Katrina, caused the death blow, missed opportunities to create permanent housing (cheaper than dangerous FEMA trailers) prevented by Federal Laws, plus the tension between Brad Pitt / FEMA's rebuilding techniques verses the (admittedly controversial) preferred techniques of the 9th Ward populace. Don't miss this candid and unique debate about rebuilding New Orleans, a city with a history that "values the acquisition of leisure rather than wealth". This episode was sponsored by Fairway: like no other market.
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Fairway Market Commercial (1:00)
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Fairway Market, serious about food, Heritage Radio Network, finding happiness through food, Steve Jenkins,Burning Down The House Intro - The Sound of the City (9:00)
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Curtis B. Wayne, Heritage Radio Network, Burning Down The House, Leila, Fairway Market, Caroline Bailey, voix populaire, Rachael Wharton, deputy editor of Edible Brooklyn, having a common acoustic experience, Frank Lloyd Wright playing Beethoven on his piano, the age of the iPod, the sound of a city, New York theaters, subway music, New Orleans, The Big Easy, the music capital of this country, the rebuilding of New Orleans, 5 years after Hurricane Katrina, the prolific writer Wayne Curtis, loved the vibe of New Orleans, Louis Armstrong, the one thing New York and New Orleans have in common,Hurricane As Urban Renewal (10:00)
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Wayne Curtis, Curtis Wayne, up in Maine, The Gulf Coast as the third coast, written extensively for The Atlantic, rum, And a Bottle of Rum: A History of the New World in Ten Cocktails, the rebuilding of New Orleans, it's not hard to fall in love with New Orleans, family in New Orleans, Curtis owes New Orleans money, all pre-hurricane records have been lost, central lockup, The Supreme Court on Royal Street, researching a rum book in New Orleans, no good reason for not living in New Orleans, the rebuilding process will make it more interesting than ever, an interesting time to relocate, rebuilding has been more deep-rooted than people expected, below sea level, the original settlers, French Quarter, the Mississippi river, the annual flooding of the river, the highest point is on the river bank, Lake Pontchartrain, about 50% of the city's below sea level, a little bit like Venice, the old shotgun shacks, the indigenous architecture of the poor, post war architecture was hit hardest by the hurricane, homes built on brick piers, built to withstand flooding, post WWII architectural hubris, pumping out the cyprus swamps, developments built on slabs below sea level, the older the building the better it survived Katrina because of location, The French Quarter was basically untouched, no flooding in the Garden District, tourist areas mostly untouched, second-tier tourism areas, New Orleans has always looked a little shabby, population peaked sometime in the 1950s, a lot of blight pre-Katrina in New Orleans, Hurrican Katrina, a lot of peaople couldn't afford to rebuild, reconfiguring the city for a new era, Hurricane as urban renewal,New Orleans is a Caribbean City (10:00)
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nice doleful Cajun music, what happened to the Cajuns, outside Lafayette, Rita hit that part of the coast much more forcibly than Katrina, the rebuilding has been spotty, down in the bayous, New Orleans is defensible, south of New Orleans is much harder to protect, resignation, something has to change, outside movie-lore we don't understand much of the culture there, New Orleans is a Caribbean City, creole roots, America's southern-most city, the Caribbean's northern most city, the approach that people take to building their houses, Brad Pitt and the do-gooders, FEMA, imposing Minnesota standards on a Caribbean city, allow people to rebuild as they would, the accumulation of wealth, the accumulation of leisure, over-investing in lower ninth ward houses, debating building standards, the flooding looked like it was 10 to 12 feet, a tidal wave after the breach, The Brad Pitt Houses are above historic flood levels, catastrophic breach in the levee wall, Thom Mayne, Noah's Ark, how do you build a neighborhood amongst houses on stilts, how do you combine safety with neighborliness, people want to live on the ground, Byron Mouton, sacrificing the ground floor, sensible beach houses in New Jersey, waterlogged, cost-cutting has caused real tragedies of design in the rebuilding, architects should be mindful of the budget, concentrating the reconstruction, lot redistribution, making sure the neighborhood comes back with more than just buildings, rebuilding social connections, coming back to New Orleans, just 35 houses have been rebuilt and occupied, looks like Chernobyl, over 100 more houses in the pipeline, church groups are building houses, the lower 9th ward, the thumb of God came down and wiped it all out, The Make It Right houses, outcry and neighborhood meetings, revamping the development plan, change along the way, Andres Duany,It's Complicated (13:20)
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rebuilding Haiti, handouts to New Orleans, the Bush Administration, so much money went to Mississippi, Governor Haley Barbour, corruption in New Orleans, mismanagement of the money, where's Oprah, the libertarian democracy of Brooklyn, Haiti is rebuilding much faster than New Orleans, 3500 tent camps in Haiti, the debate over what to do with the 9th ward, you can't have a vibrant community without commerce, a walker's city, New Orleans never really went through the urban renewal of the 1950s and 60s, community needs small buisness, Make It Right, the people need jobs, lower ninth was a post-war subdivision, stores are not coming back where they should, the budding transit system, the lower ninth ward was never the paragon of a walkable community, a residential area, truck farms, the urban farming movement in Brooklyn, community farmers market in New Orleans East, political issues, smells like a land grab to residents, The Ford Foundation, politically untenable, the Roberta's backyard garden, the stagnation of decision making, everyone wanted it rebuilt in a year, the centralized planning approach collapsed, a 10 to 15 year process, the plan to create huge Levittowns across New Orleans, the Katrina Cottage, toxic FEMA trailers, uniform lots, under federal law FEMA can only provide emergency housing, FEMA could not put in permanent housing by law, rum research, Wayne's favorite cocktail is the daiquiri, the daiquiri is almost the perfect drink, the run shrub, shrubs are liquid jams, the reemergence of shrubs, pre-refrigeration technique for capturing the flavor of summer, Roberta's has a margarita machine, visiting right after the hurricane, crime doesn't take a break in New Orleans, Heritage Radio Network in The Style Section of The New York Times,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
First Aired - 07/05/2012 06:00PM
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On the final episode of U Look Hungry: The New Orleans Sessions, Helen Hollyman is in the back of Pizza Delicious with co-founders Greg Augarten and Mike Friedman. Pizza Delicious is a pop-up slice joint in the Bywater neighborhood of New Orleans that New York natives Greg and Mike thought up while they were roommates in college and were aching for a New York-style slice. When Greg and Mike started Pizza Delicious, they had never made pizza before; tune in to hear how they tested their recipes, and the evolution of their pizza crust. Hear about some of Pizza Delicious's specialty pies, as well as some famous New Orleanians who frequent the spot. Pizza Delicious aims to make good food affordable; hear about their place in the New Orleans food scene on this episode of U Look Hungry! This episode has been brought to you by Tekserve.
"Sometimes you just want a slice, it's the perfect snack. But you can't get that around here." -- Mike Friedman on U Look Hungry
"I think New Orleans has always had this vibe to try out what other people are doing. They like small, local businesses- they want to see who's making their pizza." -- Greg Augarten on U Look Hungry
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No Idea What We're Doing... (18:01)
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Pizza Delicious, New Orleans, NY-style pizza, pop-up restaurant, Long Island, Greg Augarten, Belt Parkway, Queens, Mike Friedman, pizza blog, Di Fara Pizza, bagels, good pizza, roommates, slice of pizza, residential neighborhood, bees, turkey, New Orleans Saints, Mitch Landrieu, pepperoni rolls, pizza eaters, clientele, gas deck oven, fresh tomato sauce, toppings, specialty pizzas, squash, zucchini, plum tomato, garlic, hot Italian sausage, Berkshire, Italian food, Flagland,What Goes Into a Crust? (17:50)
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Bywater, New Orleans, customers, opening a pizza joint, restaurant, teaching, business, construction, grad school, Hurricane Katrina, negative feedback, hipster food, mystery, shared kitchen space, Laura Sugarman, Sugarman's bagels, Hollygrove Market, Glee, Anne Churchill, Dave Matthews Band, vegetarian, vegan, catering, pizza crust, recipe, sucking at what you do, 18 inch pizza, dough, humidity, cold ferment, ice water, chicken, veal, Gordon Ramsay, Dan Stein, Stein's Deli, topping pizzas, giving food for the people,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
First Aired - 06/07/2012 06:00PM
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Welcome to the first installment of U Look Hungry: The New Orleans Sessions. During her recent trip to New Orleans, Helen Hollyman was busy at work interviewing people in the local food scene on site. In this episode, Helen interviews Al and Sal Sunseri of P & J Oyster Company, a staple of the Louisiana oyster industry since 1876. Tune in to hear about the start of the company, as well as the origins of the oyster business in Louisiana. Immigrants from all ethnic backgrounds were involved in the development of the industry and made it what it has become today. Hear about how the daily business has changed after the Gulf oil spill, and the damage done to the local oyster reefs. Are the government and BP doing anything to help the Gulf Coast environmentally? Listen in to hear Al and Sal's opinions about the best way to rebuild the coastline, including the importance of barrier islands in protecting the Gulf Coast. Al and Sal also talk about the New Orleans Oyster Festival, and Blake, a 5th generation member of P & J, stops in for the interview. New Orleans is one of the biggest ports in the country, and because of this, everyone in the nation is impacted by the events in the Gulf. So tune in and educate yourself about the port that affects you! This program has been brought to you by Tekserve.
"It's a totally different dynamic now; farmers are having to go through a little bit of a challenge in that the product is not as predominant. Usually after the fresh water events that happened after the spill, you see a lot of growth- and that is a young oyster which is fat and attaches itself to culch, and other oyster reef. Well, we haven't seen that, so our concern is how productive oysters are going to be in the Louisiana south." -- Sal Sunseri on U Look Hungry
"What's happened down here is that we don't have this big barriers any longer. Because of the amount of storm surge that we've gotten over the years, because of the 10,000 plus miles of oil and gas lines that have been put in to pump oil all across America- we have lost this coastline in a much more accelerated fashion than if none of this oil and gas activity had taken place." -- Al Sunseri on U Look Hungry
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A Brief History of the New Orleans Oyster Business (16:19)
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Honduras, oyster, bananas, generational business, P & J Oyster Company, Al Sunseri, Sal Sunseri, Gulf oil spill, Louisiana, New Orleans, Native Americans, Europeans, French, Croatians, bordello, St. Bernard Parish, shuck, oysters in the shell, shucked oyster meat, po' boy, oysters rockefeller, limestone, culch, oyster reef, environmentally, British Petroleum, fisheries, rebuild the coastline, silt, mango trees, barrier islands,Rebuild the Coast (19:48)
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nor'easters, flood, oil and gas lines, levees, shipping industry, coastline destruction, erosion, marsh, fresh water, Mother Nature, fish nurseries, fin fish, shrimp, crab, sediment diversions, port city, imported oil, blue crab, raw oysters, oysters mosca, New Orleans Oyster Festival, Hurricane Katrina, Nathan's hot dogs, competitive eating, 5th generation P & J, spawning, growing, heritage, New Orleans history, the French Quarter, remoulade, ketchup, marinade, onions, celery, habañero, jalapeño, aqua farming, West Coast, New York,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
